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In March 2017, a distasteful image showing President Donald Trump with a brown stain down the back of his golf pants appeared on social media, along with the claim that he was incontinent: The image reached a far wider audience when it was featured in a fake news article published by the web site Viral Chords a few days after it first appeared on social media, appearing alongside a claim that the President had experienced diarrhea during a recent golf outing: The same photograph was used to illustrate a 30 December 2017 article published by the Empire News junk news site, headlined A Crying Donald Trump Was Escorted Off Mar-A-Lago Golf Course After Accidentally Pooping His Pants: Both this story and the image are fake. The original photograph was taken by Reuters photographer David Moir on 10 July 2012, during the opening of the Trump International Golf Links golf course. Here's a look at the original image, as well as a cropped closeup showing Trump's stain-free backside: A similar image purportedly showing an incontinent Hillary Clinton was circulated during the 2016 presidential campaign. That photograph was also a hoax.
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