Does a photo show President Donald Trump sitting with the Easter Bunny in the Situation Room at the White House in April 2026? No, that's not true: The image is a digital fabrication that adds a person in a full-body bunny costume, seated in a chair, to an official White House photo and includes an AI watermark. The original version of the image dates to June 2025 and was publicly released at that time.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) by the @realPowerTie account on X on April 6, 2026. It read:
President Trump and the Easter Bunny in the situation room.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @realPowerTie on X.)
Original image
The original image is an official White House picture (archived here) from a June 21, 2025, meeting of the president and his national security team in the Situation Room. It comes from a photo gallery (archived here) on the White House website. Lead Stories stacked the pictures on top of each other to show that the Easter Bunny had been added between the president and Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
(Image sources: The White House and post by @realPowerTie on X.)
The edited image also includes a watermark (circled in red above) from Gemini, Google's AI assistant. Lead Stories ran the picture through Gemini (archived here), and its analysis confirmed the observation. It said: "Most or all of this image was generated or edited with Google AI."
Separately, the Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded the image was 99.9% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Bunny on the balcony
The fake photo of the Easter Bunny in the Situation Room may have caused more confusion than normal for casual viewers because it appeared on the same day that Trump was seen next to the Easter Bunny on a White House balcony during the annual Easter Egg Roll, where he also spoke (archived here) about the war with Iran. Another official White House photo gallery (archived here) shows the pair side by side at that April 6, 2026, event:
(Image source: The White House.)
