This may seem like a small thing, but it isn’t.
Below is how Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s hand really looks:
Here’s what Trump says it looks like:
This so obviously a photoshop that it beggers the imagination that anyone thinks he really has the letters M,S,1, and 3 tattooed on his hand. One would think one of the DOGE incel boys could have created an image that actually looked real.
I am not an expert by any means but while it took me a half hour of trial and error, I managed to erase MS13 and to add my own letters to the image Trump displayed. As impossible as it would be, I wish Garcia had MAGA tattooed on his hand. Unfortunately, there’s no Spanish word for Maga, although there are in other languages (reference).
Polifacts explains why nobody in MS-13 would have the other tattoos which Garcia has on their hand. Futher, Snopes elaborates on this saying that some of the tattoos are real but that the image is altered.
We have two possibilities here. One is that Trump just took it on faith that the photo someone gave him was real. Nobody knows whether he really believes Garcia is, or was, a member of MS-13. The other is that he knew the photo was fake and he decided to lie about it. I am not sure which explanation is worse.
On April 3rd I wrote about all of the possible “gates” we could attribute to Trump (here).
We could add another gate to Trump’s reign in the White House: Fake Photogate.
