Did the Donald Trump White House publish a press release offering pieces of the demolished East Wing for $500 per item at a website whose name suggested an affiliation with the U.S. president? No, that's not true: An image of the purported press release circulating on social media was full of nonsensical typos and redirected to a nonexistent website. As of this writing, no such announcement could be found on the White House website, and no credible media outlets reported on such a sale.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on October 24, 2025. It showed an image that read:
OWN A PIECE OF THE WHITE HOUSE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Washington, D.C. - Patriots can now own own piece of White House through the limited-edition EAST WING COLLECTION, available exclusively at TheTrumpStore.com...
On top of what seemed to be a press release, the viral picture showed what appeared to be a stone or a pie. The corresponding text on the right side read:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
This document certifies that the encloxed arrriact to an OFFICIAL LAST WINC RUBBLEFRAOMENT, collected using the hictoric reoipressen authorized by Presidem Donald | Tramp Reaching has been preserved to exacling standards and repretent's a commutment to rebuild ling America abenacobilii Alrannii.
45TH PRESIDENT OF PIEB STATES OfFICE of PRESIDENTIAL PREDIIZATION.
This is what the image looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post by "Dan Fisher" at facebook.com)
The purported announcement invited people to pay $500 per fragment of the East Wing, which was fully torn down in October 2025 (archived here), but the concentration of typos indicated it was not an official White House announcement. For example, the viral image described the "encloxed arrriact to an OFFICIAL LAST WINC RUBBLEFRAOMENT" and "commutment to rebuild ling America abenacobilii Alrannii".
The sign-off line referred to Trump as the 45th president of the U.S., but in 2025, as he was serving his second, non-consecutive term, he was already the 47th president of the same country -- the United States -- as during his first term, not a fictional place named "PIEB STATES" from the "press release".
Furthermore, the notion that the "certificate of authenticity" would be signed by "Donald Trump's autopen" suggested a satirical subtext: In the past, Trump criticized his predecessor (archived here), Joe Biden, for using this tool on multiple occasions.
Additionally, the "signature" from the "press release" was different from what could be found on the White House website (archived here), as the composite image below demonstrates:
(Image sources: Lead Stories screenshots of post at facebook.com and the White House website; composite image by Lead Stories)
The advertised website, where people could supposedly purchase "a piece of the White House", wasn't operational, either. When a Lead Stories reporter attempted to access TheTrumpStore.com, it redirected to another website, suggesting that the page with that name could have been available for sale:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at afternic.com)
A Google search for the exact wording from the viral image across the White House website did not yield any matches:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of google.com)
Searches on Google News and Yahoo News did not lead to any credible reporting corroborating the claim.
Three online AI detectors -- Hive Moderation, AI or Not and Hugging Face -- suggested that the viral image reviewed in this fact check was generated by AI:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at facebook.com checked by the hivemoderation.com plugin)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of AI or Not)
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of huggingface.com)
