Former President Barack Obama was in Houston serving food to people affected by Hurricane Harvey.
On 26 August 2017, Twitter user Aiden Benjamin posted a picture he claimed showed former President Barack Obama helping people affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas. Benjamin posted the picture three times, with his first post garnering more than 7,000 retweets. The caption read: #HurricaneHarvey #PrayForTexas 'Rockport' Something youll [sic] never see trump do: Obama is in texas serving meals! Benjamin posted the picture two more times, each with captions criticizing Obama's successor, President Donald Trump. The photograph quickly went viral. This photograph does show President Barack Obama serving food to people in need, but it was not in 2017, nor did it show people displaced by a hurricane. The picture was actually taken on 25 November 2015, when he and his family served meals to homeless U.S. military veterans during an event at St. Luke's Methodist Church in Washington D.C. There is no indication Obama has been in Texas since the hurricane made landfall, but he did post a link on Twitter encouraging his followers to donate to the American Red Cross. On 28 August 2017, Benjamin posted: I took down the tweet of obama [sic], I apologize to people who thought it was real. also to @callrail I apologize! We asked him whether he knew the picture of Obama was not taken in 2017 when he posted it. He has yet to respond.
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