claim: A video shows a "fake" Melania Trump standing next to the president.
origin: A bizarre rumor holding that President Trump was using a Melania Trump body double at a press conference took holdÂ on social media in October 2017 after Facebook user Andrea Wagner Barton posted photographic â€œevidenceâ€ of the charge: < Will the real Melania please stand up?Â Is it me or during his speech today a decoy â€œstood inâ€ for Melania??Â Andâ€¦. Why would the moron say â€œmy wife, Melania, who happens to be right hereâ€¦â€Â Seriously, watch very closely! > A video purportedly showing this â€œfakeâ€ Melania Trump was also widely circulated on social media. As of this writing, Bartonâ€™s post has racked up more than 9 million views: The footage above was captured by filming a television screen showing a CNN report from 13 October 2017. When compared to the actual video available on CNNâ€˜s web site, itâ€™s apparent that the strange visual was caused by the TV screen and not a faux first lady.Â Hereâ€™s a screenshot from the Facebook video (left) compared to a still from the video available onÂ CNN.com.Â Note that Melaniaâ€™s face is slightly shrunken, distorted, and rounder Â in the Facebook video:Â This not evidence of a body double. Itâ€™s evidence of a poorly working television. Several other images of the first lady from the same day are also available from news organizations such as Getty Images and and the Associated Press. Many of those photographs, such as the following image from the White House, featured the first lady sans sunglasses, clearly showing that this woman is in fact Melania Trump and not some impostor: