claim: An image shows President Trump's motorcade riding in a penis formation.
origin: As an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election dominates headlines, the nation could perhaps use a moment of levity. Sadly, that moment will not be delivered by a phallus-shapedÂ motorcade taking the President to the golf course. The image purporting to show that motorcade, posted to social media in June 2017, has been doctored.Â < Trumpâ€™s going golfing.Â Well played police outridersâ€¦â€¦well played indeed. > This doctored image has beenÂ circulatingÂ since at least 2014 when it was shared with similar jokes about Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although whoever created the graphic usedÂ a still shot from a video of Putinâ€™s May 2012 inauguration, that video never featured a group of motorcycles riding in phallic formation. Hereâ€™s a graphic comparing the doctoredÂ imageÂ (top) and the genuine stillÂ (bottom):