By Pascal Ibe
Claim
An X user, @MobyChe, shared a celebration photo of Chelsea star Cole Palmer being posted on the Truth Social account of United States president, Donald Trump, alongside the question that depicts that image to be real.
Verdict
This claim is FALSE. The US president graced the celebration of Chelsea after winning the Club World Cup Final against PSG. However, the photo being circulated by the X user showing that Trump shared Palmer’s Club World Cup image on his Truth social account was photoshopped, our findings indicated.
Full Text
On 13th July, Chelsea won the FIFA Club World Cup Final, defeating Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) 3-0. This marks their second Club World Cup title, with their first coming in 2021.
The final, held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, saw Cole Palmer score twice and assist João Pedro for the third goal.
Two wonderful, almost identical strikes, executed with an effortless ease, and a lovely soft-shoed assist from Cole Palmer led Chelsea to the expanded Club World Cup. That Tiffany trophy, a great, big gold coin, had their name engraved into it alongside Gianni Infantino’s, the billion-dollar team that won the billion-dollar competition.
It was handed to them by Donald Trump, who was booed when he appeared and hung about in the picture for a bit before Chelsea’s players pushed in front of him on the podium. Reece James lifted it, fireworks went off and Blue is the Colour went round. They had done it.
Reacting to this, an X user, @MobyChe shared a photo of Chelsea star Cole Palmer being posted on the Truth Social account of United States president, Donald Trump, alongside the question that depicts that image to look real.
The X user published the picture with a question that asked, “Has the US president posted about your club?
The post has already generated 75k views with over 4k likes and more than 2k reposts, according to X analytics.
Verification
It was confirmed that Trump, who attended the Club World Cup final in a suite with his wife Melania and FIFA president Gianni Infantino, presented Palmer with the Golden Ball and the trophy to the team on Sunday.
FACTWATCH Nigeria also cited a post shared by the White House on its X account, celebrating the English club. The post reads, “PHOTO DUMP: President Donald J. Trump at the FIFA Club World Cup Final 🇺🇸
However, this Fact Checker searched thoroughly for the photo of Palmer being posted on Trump’s Truth social account on the US president’s verified Truth social but could not find it. This is an indicator that the image is not real.
We subjected the photo to an AI detection device, and the results from Sightengine showed that it was not certain that the image was shared by Trump on his Truth social account.
Also, no international credible news organization published the photo at any time.
Conclusion
Findings have shown that the US president didn’t post Palmer’s Club World Cup Final photo on his Truth social account recently.
