Become a Member ![\\"snopes](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\"/) Search My Profile Logout Submit a Rumor Latest Trending News & Politics Entertainment Fact Checks Quiz Sections Latest Trending Fact Checks News Collections More Contact Us Submit a Rumor Archives Quiz FactBot Newsletters About Us Categories News & Politics Entertainment Science & Technology Lifestyle Free accounts support our journalism Become a Member Login My Profile Logout ![\\"republican_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/republican_symbol.png\\"/) Snopes fact-checked the vice presidential debate live! Read more here ![\\"democrat_symbol\\"](\\"/design/images/democrat_symbol.png\\"/) Fact Check # Is This a Photograph of a Young Donald Trump? ## Sometimes distorting visual reality is as easy as pushing a button. ### Dan Evon ### Published May 17, 2019 ![\\"\\"](\\" Claim: A photograph shows a young Donald Trump in 1952. Rating: False About this rating On 17 May 2019, the \"Pictures in History\" Facebook page shared an image that supposedly showed a young Donald Trump (5 or 6 years old) in 1952: ![\\"\\"](\\" Advertisement: Many of the president\'s supporters took to Facebook to remark on how cute Donald Trump was as a child, but this is not a genuine photograph of a young Trump. This is actually an image of an adult Trump that was put through a \"baby filter\" on Snapchat. In May 2019, social media users posted a number of images that supposedly showed various celebrities as \"babies.\" Twitter user @MajorMarvelKing, for example, applied this Snapchat filter to various still images from the Avengers films: ![\\"\\"](\\" Advertisement: While we\'re not entirely sure who created this picture of baby Trump, we did find the real photograph that was used as a basis for it: ![\\"\\"](\\" On the left is an image President Trump during an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Showin 1988, and on the right is the same image of Trump, who was about 42 years old at the time, after we ran it through Snapchat\'s baby filter. Advertisement: Whoever created the viral \"young Trump\" image also applied a black and white filter to make it appear as if the image had been taken during the 1950s. If you\'re curious as to how Donald Trump actually looked as a child, here is a genuine photograph from Trump\'s childhood: ![\\"\\"](\\" Advertisement: President Trump shared this image to his Instagram page in 2013 with the caption \"Who knew this innocent kid would grow into a monster? #TBT #Trump.\" #### Sources Hill, Harry. \"The Snapchat Baby filter on Characters from TV and Movies Is Absolutely Hilarious.\" Mashable. 16 May 2019. YourEDM. \"How to Get the New Snapchat Baby Filter Everyone Is Posting.\" 13 May 2019. ### By Dan Evon Dan Evon is a former writer for Snopes. Recommendations Advertisement: ![\\"Snopes.com\\"](\\"/design/images/logo-main.png\\") Company About Us FAQs Contact Us Submit a Topic Navigate Home Search Archive Newsletters Random Sections Latest Top Fact Checks News Account Join Login Game FactBot Like Us on Facebook Follow Us on Twitter © 1995 - 2024 by Snopes Media Group Inc. This material may not be reproduced without permission. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com Terms of Use Privacy Policy DMCA Policy
A photograph shows a young Donald Trump in 1952