Was a Trump 2020 graphic digitally added to a family photo of Michigan LDS church shooting suspect Thomas J. Sanford? No, that's not true: The picture with the Trump 2020 graphic is the original, posted publicly on Facebook in 2019 and unchanged. Social media commenters later posted an edited version that removed the Trump logo. The original photo is still publicly visible on the Sanford family's Facebook page for updates on the health of their son who has a congenital disorder.
The photoshopped image appears in a post on X (archived here) published by @0HOUR1__ on Sept. 29, 2025. It was captioned:
If only you hadnt photoshopped it
🥴🥴🥴🥴🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is how the altered image appears in the post:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/0HOUR1__/status/1972701452054229142.)
The post by @0HOUR1__ contains a quote tweet of a Sept. 29, 2025 post (archived here) by @CalltoActivism which calls attention to the photo of Sanford wearing a Trump 2020 shirt. This is the original photo, but it has been cropped to focus mainly on the Trump graphic on the camo T-shirt (pictured below).
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: MAGA is in stunned silence this morning after a photo has emerged of yesterday's suspected Michigan church shooter wearing a Trump 2020 shirt with the words "Make Liberals Cry Again" on it.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1972666696570753224.)
The original photo with the Trump 2020 graphic was published in a Facebook post (archived here) on Sept. 13, 2019. Some comments on this post discuss a theory that the Trump 2020 graphic was photoshopped onto the shirt, and suggest that hackers replaced the original with an edited one. This is not possible. If the post had been edited, the record of the editing would be present in the "edit history" of the post -- in the "three dots" menu in the upper right corner of the post. Because the post has never been edited, there is no edit history to display.
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from facebook.com/share/p/1BZiDM2SJe/.)
