We don’t fact-check every meme and retweet shared by President Trump. But this one’s a corker: In a Monday morning Twitter post, Trump shared a real photograph with a fake quotation from President Ronald Reagan.
Trump, dressed in black tie, is shaking hands with Reagan in the Blue Room of the White House. The photo was taken at a reception for arts patrons in 1987, according to the Reagan Library.
“For the life of me, and I’ll never know how to explain it, when I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with a president,” Reagan is falsely quoted as saying about Trump, who was 41 years old at the time.
View the complete July 9 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.