claim: President Trump left reviews for locations such as Yad Vashem on TripAdvisor during his trip of the Middle East.
origin: In late May 2017, following a trip from President Donald Trump to the A series of screenshots purportedly showing reviews President Trump left on TripAdvisor for various locations in the Middle East: This, for instance, is the review Trump reportedly left for the â€œGlobal Center for Combating Extremismâ€ in Saudi Arabia: These reviews were not actually written by President Trump. The TripAdvisor reviews originated in an article published byÂ MashableÂ on 28 May 2017, with a few hints (in addition to the articleâ€™s outlandish premise and the unbelievable text) that the reviews are not real. For instance, the reviews are introduced with the following brief statement: < Below are his reviews, published here for the very first time. > The article also carries a â€œhumorâ€ tag, showingÂ that it was written in jest, not as a genuine news story. Â Although theÂ article is clearly a piece of satire, we searched TripAdvisorÂ to see if we could find any reviews written by Donald Trump and found no reviews aboutÂ Yad Vashem, the Wailing Wall, or any other landmarks in the Middle East.Â