{"id":130273,"date":"2026-07-16T05:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/130273\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:07:11","slug":"fact-check-donald-trump-did-post-photo-where-he-shows-european-leaders-a-map-with-canada-greenland-and-venezuela-covered-in-a-u-s-flag-doctored-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/130273\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Donald Trump DID Post Photo Where He Shows European Leaders A Map With Canada, Greenland And Venezuela Covered In A U.S. Flag &#8212; Doctored Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Did Donald Trump post a photo where he shows European leaders a map of North America with Canada, Greenland and Venezuela covered in the U.S. flag? Yes, that&#8217;s true: Trump did post the image on his Truth Social account, but the image was doctored. It was originally taken in August 2025, and the map did not show Canada, Greenland and Venezuela covered in the U.S. flag. The original image was posted by official U.S. government social media accounts showing a map without the Stars and Stripes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The image appeared in <a data-ylk=\"slk:a July 14, 2026, post on Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116919045881732277\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a July 14, 2026, post on Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260715182632\/https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116919045881732277\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is what the post looked like on Truth Social at the time of writing:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Screenshot 2026-07-15 114959.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"602\" height=\"581\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/894cc7e63295b3d13b4b884879328587.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: post by @realDonaldTrump on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The image was originally posted on the official Instagram account of the U.S. Mission to the EU <a data-ylk=\"slk:@useu;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN2vbvZ4uS7\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@useu<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260715185434\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DN2vbvZ4uS7\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) and was taken during a meeting between Trump and European leaders in the Oval Office in August 2025. The map in this photo showed Ukraine and surrounding areas, not North America, Greenland and Venezuela covered in the American flag, as this screenshot shows:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Screenshot 2026-07-15 115659.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"426\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/8e9969e27d2cd57f5f4f3816b7394abd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: post by @useu on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The image was also posted on the <a data-ylk=\"slk:White House Flickr account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/202101414@N05\/54732021493\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">White House Flickr account<\/a> (archived <a data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260715191130\/https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/202101414@N05\/54732021493\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) with a credit that read, Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok, as this screenshot shows:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Screenshot 2026-07-15 120820.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"424\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/lead_stories_560\/0710880a9b78d55f4f1e2678dcba0948.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: post by The White House on Flickr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other Fact Checks<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This claim was also investigated by <a data-ylk=\"slk:Snopes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/trump-venezuela-canada-greenland-map\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Snopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did Donald Trump post a photo where he shows European leaders a map of North America with Canada,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,57,4247],"class_list":["post-130273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-greenland","tag-donald-trump","tag-greenland","tag-venezuela"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116927925297189790","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}