Does a viral image show Trump's aide Natalie Harp sitting next to the president in a car while wearing blue surgical gloves? No, that's not true: The real photo was digitally altered to add two hands wearing blue surgical gloves that do not appear in the original. The account that first posted the edited image said it was not meant to be taken seriously.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on Facebook where it was published by @DailyBoulder on Oct. 2, 2026. It opened:
Natalie putting on gloves. Because... why exactly??
This is what the image attached to the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @DailyBoulder on Facebook.)
The original poster who published (archived here) the image on X earlier on Oct. 2, 2026, spelled out that it was meant to be "parody". That account wrote:
And should anyone believe this is real, it is not, it is parody. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
The real image Lead Stories found via reverse image searches came from the Reuters database where it was published with the following caption:
President Donald Trump motorcade arrives for the rally at the Choctaw Event Center in Durant, Okla., Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026.
The real photo showed no surgical gloves:
(Image source: Reuters.)
