Melania Body Double: Trump has been replaced with a body double at the White House.
A photo of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump aboard Marine One en route to the last presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, has reignited rumours that the White House employs a body double to stand in for Melania Trump.
The first photo of Trump and ‘Melania’ was taken today, but it doesn’t seem like Melania at all. This has happened a couple of times in the past “a Facebook post reads. “They just don’t look like her… some people think it’s her secret service agent that follows her around everywhere…”
A screenshot of a tweet with the identical photo is included in another post, along with the caption, “Today’s photo of a fictitious Melania Trump. They believe we won’t notice?
Melania’s Body Double the posts have not respond
There’s no body double here; only skewed footage, strange images, and coincidences.
Every time, the charges revolve around photographs or videos of Melania Trump that social media users claim don’t look like her. But that’s a fairly simple explanation.
According to Snopes, a widely circulated video depicts her face as “slightly smaller, twisted, and rounder.” This is due to the fact that the film is on a television screen.
When compared to the actual broadcast, the first lady’s odd appearance is obvious “There isn’t any sign of a body double. It’s a sign that the television isn’t working properly.”
Another oddity was a recent snapshot from the debates.
Melania Trump appears to be her regular self in all of the other photos taken that day, including those of the first couple on Marine One taken by the same photographer, Alex Brandon, and made available to USA TODAY via Associated Press.
The National Press Photographers Association’s executive director, Akili Ramsess, has told the Associated Press that the angle at which images are shot, the type of camera lens used, and the location of the photographer can all affect how subjects seem in photos.
According to Business Insider, Melania Trump appears to have a Secret Service agent that looks “strikingly similar” to her, which has fed the rumour.
“The United States Secret Service does not use body duplicates,” Jonathan Wackrow, a former Secret Service agent who served on the first family’s detail, told CNN.
“Mrs. Trump’s lead agent is a lady… she looks a little like her, but she’s considerably shorter physically,” he claimed.
He also claimed that the chief agent spent time on assignment with former President Barack Obama’s family, which he said contributed to her suitability for Trump.
Those are the kinds of facts that are taken into account, not whether or not an agent is a body double,” he explained.
Trump and the White House have already denounced the conspiracy notion.
Multiple calls for response from USA TODAY on the latest rumours that the first lady has a body double have gone unanswered.
However, both the White House and Donald Trump have criticised previous variations of the conspiracy idea.
After the storey surfaced on Twitter in October 2017, Stephanie Grisham, the East Wing’s communications director, told CNN that the hypothesis was false.
“Once again, we’re obsessed with a stupid non-story when we could be discussing the work the first lady is doing on behalf of children, particularly the opioid crisis that has gripped our country,” Grisham added.
According to the Associated Press, the hypothesis was revived in March 2019 after the first lady accompanied President Trump on a tour to assess tornado damage in Alabama. That time, Trump took it upon himself to refute the claim, blaming it on the media without providing any evidence.
He stated on Twitter, “The Fake News manipulated Melania’s images, then promoted conspiracy theories that it’s actually not her by my side in Alabama and other places.”
Grisham also chastised the hosts of ABC’s “The View” for addressing the notion on television, claiming that the programme was “a waste of time.” “went above and beyond the petty mean-girl spirit with which we’ve been accustomed.”
“In Alabama, people died, families were lost, and people are hurting,” Grisham told the Associated Press. “I saw the president and first lady hug, listen to, and comfort folks who had lost everything, while The View’s ‘women’ decided to laugh and joke about a body-double conspiracy.”
The conspiracy notion that the White House used a body double to stand in for Melania Trump is FALSE, according to our research.
The White House and President Donald Trump have rejected it, and the photographs and videos used to support the notion have been found to be anomalies. After all, no two people appear identical in every photograph taken of them.
Our fact-checking sources include:
|AP Images, Election 2020 Trump, Oct. 22
• Snopes, 19 October 2017. Is this a doppelgänger for Melania Trump?
• Snopes, 26 Oct. Is This Yet Another ‘Body Double’ Photo of Melania Trump?
• The Associated Press, 13 March 2019. Trump dismisses #FakeMelania conspiracy claims.
• October 18, 2017, Business Insider Melania Trump has a Secret Service agent who looks eerily like her, which has sparked a bizarre conspiracy idea.
• CNN, 19 October 2017. Melania Trump does not have a doppelganger.
• Trump, Donald J., March 13, 2019, Tweet
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