Does an abstract digital image from 2021 contain a hidden image showing the famous raised fist photo from the 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa.? No, that's not true: The digital image was presented in 2026 with a transparent overlay so that both images were intermingled. It does not contain a hidden image of the 2024 scene in Butler.
One example of this appears in a post published on X on April 26, 2026, by @MJTruthUltra (archived here). The post was captioned:
The events last night just got even weirder..
That Pepe account that posted the shooters name a few years ago, his header background, I found the source of that image... besides being later linked to a Time Machine website, the image looks like a superimposed image of President Trump at the Butler assassination attempt. Do you see it??? OMG! 😱
This is the WILD part... That original image even PRE-DATES the Butler Assassination attempt.
-- it was published on October 28, 2021
-- The Butler Assassination attempt occurred on July 13, 2024To add in even more spice to the Butler connection... watch the video. Is that the same woman?
Source of image
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-multicolored-image-of-a-multi-colored-background-Js9auX5_9R8
The post included two images, a photo and a video. The video is a clip from when Cole Tomas Allen was arrested at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026, and charged with trying to assassinate Trump. The main image in question is pictured below:
(Image source: post by @MJTruthUltra on X.com.)
The four panels in the above image show a progressive transition from the 2024 AP press photo in Butler by Evan Vucci to an abstract digital image that has existed since 2021. The two images are not similar, but the progressive transition introduces a false association by using transparent layers.
To compare the two images side by side, Lead Stories removed the panels that include transparent overlay effects from the above image. The composite image below shows only the cropped original images from the upper left and lower right panels.
(Image source: Lead Stories composite with post by @MJTruthUltra on X.com.)
The digital image with pastel colors is titled Eternal Waterfall (archived here). It was uploaded to the free photo-sharing website Unsplash on Oct. 28, 2021, by the contributor Distinct Mind. The image is labeled, "Free to use under the Unsplash License" and the page statistics say it has been downloaded 28,082 times and viewed 2,185,678 times.
(Image source: Distinct Mind at Unsplash.)
A reverse image search for the image with Google Lens returns many results showing a variety of ways the abstract image has been used. On May 5, 2022, it appeared as a cover image for a study titled "Study on quality in 3D digitisation of tangible cultural heritage" published by the Time Machine Organisation (archived here). This conspiracy hinges on past evidence about a future event but the Time Machine Organization does not practice time travel. The About page on the organization's website (archived here) describes their mission:
Time Machine is aiming to join Europe's rich past with up-to-date digital technologies and infrastructures, creating a collective digital information system mapping the European economic, social, cultural and geographical evolution across times.
In the proposed approach, digitisation is only the first step of a long series of extraction processes, including document segmentation and understanding enhanced by Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) applications, leading to simulations of hypothetical spatiotemporal 4D reconstructions.
The "Eternal Waterfall" image was used also as a cover for the album "Four Chargers" by Prod By Chocolate on Spotify (archived here).
As the @MJTruthUltra post says, the image also appears on X account @HenryMa79561893, which was created in December 2023. Could the join date be faked? According to TechCrunch (archived here), an X feature rolled out in November 2025 shows the date an account was created and this cannot be altered. This account, Henry Martinez, has a profile picture of Pepe the Frog making a toast with champagne. The Eternal Waterfall image appears as the cover photo (pictured below).
(Image source: post by @HenryMa79561893 on X.com.)
The account has only one post publicly visible (archived here). Dated Dec. 21, 2023, the caption has only two words:
Cole Allen
Cole Allen is the name of the man arrested on the night of the White House Correspondents' Dinner. He is not the only person with that name. At the time of writing, the people search directory Spokeo contained 193 results for people named Cole Allen (archived here). A Google search turned up several notable Cole Allens, an actor, and a musician, both from Texas, an offensive lineman currently playing for Duke University and a running back playing for Harvard Crimson (archived here, here, here and here).
There is no clear evidence that this name drop from Dec. 21, 2023, with no context is referring to the man who was arrested and charged on April 27, 2026, with an attempted assassination of the president (archived here).
Lead Stories reached out for comment to Distinct Mind through their Instagram account and will update this article if we receive a reply.
