People point out major issue as Trump shares scathing post with ‘proof’ that father deported to ‘world’s worst prison’ is a criminal
President Donald Trump is under fire after sharing what he claims is proof that a Maryland father recently deported to El Salvador is a gang member. The man, Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, was mistakenly sent to one of the world’s harshest prisons El Salvador’s Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT) due to what the administration called an “admin error.”
Despite the admission that his deportation was accidental, Trump insists that García is part of the notorious MS-13 gang. On his social media platform Truth Social, he posted an image showing a hand with “M S 1 3” tattooed across the knuckles. Trump said it was García’s hand and accused Democrats of defending a violent criminal.
But people online quickly noticed something odd about the image the “MS13” letters looked like they had been digitally added. Unlike the other markings on the hand, the letters are unnaturally sharp and clean, raising suspicions that the photo was edited. Side-by-side comparisons show that the same hand, posted by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, has no such tattoo.
Bukele even mocked the controversy, sharing a photo of García without the tattoo and sarcastically suggesting that he was enjoying life in El Salvador, not suffering in a brutal prison.
Online users didn’t hold back. Many called the image an obvious Photoshop job, saying the editing was amateur and blatant. One user called Trump “a felon using false evidence,” while others joked that the situation felt like a low-budget political movie except it’s happening in real life.
Even former politicians joined in. Linda Higgins, a former state senator from Minnesota, tweeted at Trump directly, calling the image an example of “altering a photo to make illegal actions look good,” and added that it only made him look foolish.
So far, the White House hasn’t responded to questions about the photo or Trump’s claims. But the whole situation has sparked fresh outrage and questions about transparency, truth, and how far political leaders are willing to go to defend their actions.
