{"id":1579610,"date":"2022-07-29T17:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579610"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T21:26:06","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-greenpeace-banner-at-trump-tower-making-fun-of-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-greenpeace-banner-at-trump-tower-making-fun-of-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Greenpeace Banner At Trump Tower Making Fun Of Donald Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-greenpeace-banner-at-trump-tower-making-fun-of-donald-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1579610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/shutterstock_560500465-e1552404420450.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DumbAsShitRepublicans\/photos\/a.1425111701076793\/3159536240967655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DumbAsShitRepublicans\/photos\/a.1425111701076793\/3159536240967655\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1659190150200000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0XI5zbYkkspRI6c9IUvplO\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a Greenpeace banner hanging from Trump Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada making fun of former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image has been photoshopped. A spokesperson for Greenpeace denied the group hung such a banner.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace, an environmental campaigning network, is planning to legally challenge the approval of a Shell gas field in the U.K., according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/sustainable-business\/greenpeace-fight-uk-approval-shell-gas-field-court-2022-07-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. The group also claimed responsibility for seizing 30 kilometers of fishing gear in the North Atlantic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/press-release\/54930\/greenpeace-seizes-30km-of-industrial-fishing-gear-in-north-atlantic%EF%BF%BC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">organization<\/a> announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook image shows a yellow banner across a building with the Trump name reading, \u201chas a little mushroom dick.\u201d The image appears to be a screenshot from this video posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulLahticks\/status\/1552738672373510145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, which has garnered over 13,000 retweets at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump Tower, Las Vegas right now. (5 hours ago),\u201d the post\u2019s caption states. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/06\/27\/fact-check-greenpeace-concentration-camps-yellow-banner-trump-hotel-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Greenpeace Hang A \u2018Concentration Camps\u2019 Banner From The Trump Hotel In Vegas?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally altered. The photo is a screen grab of a video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulleeticks\/status\/1143579857554530304?s=21&#038;fbclid=IwAR0LlNVjzAnbkwVhxVS_jG57CcgSfeNrqTNxW1XZXI_o7dh1VeUGPBkWj0Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on Twitter<\/a> from user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulLeeTicks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Lee Ticks<\/a>. Ticks has previously posted other <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220214205740\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulLeeTeeks\/status\/1493327310560317447\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doctored images and videos<\/a> of the yellow banner since 2019. The account has since been suspended.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump Tower, Las Vegas right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/krtF1T3t0T\">pic.twitter.com\/krtF1T3t0T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Lahticks (@PaulLahticks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulLahticks\/status\/1552738672373510145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is false indeed: this video has been doctored to include a fabricated Greenpeace banner,\u201d Mehdi Leman, a spokesperson for Greenpeace, confirmed to Check Your Fact in an email. Leman also pointed to previous comments Greenpeace made to other fact-checkers, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/factcheck-trumptower-fakebanner-idUSL1N2UR2C1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>, about how the sign was not used by Greenpeace.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time such a sign has been digitally fabricated on a building owned by Trump. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/06\/27\/fact-check-greenpeace-concentration-camps-yellow-banner-trump-hotel-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim that Greenpeace unfurled a banner from the same tower criticizing the former president\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a Greenpeace banner hanging from Trump Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada making fun of former President Donald Trump.Verdict: False The image has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}