Did a video shared in March 2025 authentically show a teacher ordering a student to leave her classroom because he was wearing a MAGA hat? No, that's not true: the video in question was no more than a sketch. The TikTok account that posted it has a history of publishing short skits featuring the same actors shown in the fake classroom video.
The clip appeared in a March 23, 2025, post on X (archived here), which contained the following caption:
Whoa
Dude gets thrown out of class for wearing a MAGA hat. He stood his ground
This is how the post appeared at the time of writing:
(Source: X screenshot taken by Lead Stories on March 24 14:09:37 2025 UTC)
The clip was posted on TikTok (archived here) on March 21, 2025, by the account @networkmediaissod, as shown below.
A quick browse of that account's feed shows a series a similar sketches:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories on March 24 14:31:24 2025 UTC)
The actor who played the teacher in the sketch posted on March 21 can clearly be seen in at least two other sketches posted by the same TikTok account. Here she is in the "teacher/student MAGA hat" sketch:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories on March 24 14:34:08 2025 UTC)
Here she is in a sketch about a woman destroying her neighbor's pumpkins:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories on March 24 14:44:50 2025 UTC)
And here she is playing a server in a sketch set in a diner:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken by Lead Stories on March 24 14:34:42 2025 UTC)
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Skits and sketches touching on political and social issues are often mistaken as being authentic. To read other Lead Stories fact checks about this common strand of misinformation, click here.
