{"id":183831,"date":"2025-10-02T00:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183831\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:47:14","slug":"fact-file-trump-post-on-blue-jays-is-a-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183831\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact File: Trump post on Blue Jays is a fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first American League East Division title since 2015 with a win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday, but a screenshot shared online of a supposed Truth Social post from Donald Trump suggested the U.S. president wasn\u2019t on board with the Jays\u2019 playoff run.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298208_703_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The post, written in all-capital letters, says the United States will be investigating the \u201cun-American\u201d Blue Jays as they attempt to \u201csteal\u201d the World Series, and that the team would not be invited to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the post is a satirical fake, the White House confirmed to The Canadian Press, and does not appear on Trump\u2019s social media feed.<\/p>\n<p>THE CLAIM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWE WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE UN AMERICAN BLUE JAYS WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO STEAL OUR BELOVED WORLD SERIES,\u201d reads a screenshot of what appears to be a post by Trump on his Truth Social account. \u201cTHEY WILL DEFINITELY NOT BE INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRelated Videos\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Global National: Sept. 27'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CARNEY_POST_GN_VMS.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20:50<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal National: Sept. 27\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot has been shared on multiple social media platforms, including Threads, Facebook, Instagram and the X platform, formerly Twitter, to thousands of likes and comments, many of which appeared unsure whether the post was real.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758298209_554_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>THE FACTS<\/p>\n<p>The White House confirmed to The Canadian Press that Trump has not posted anything about the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>Searches of Trump\u2019s Truth Social account turned up no such post on or before Sept. 28, when it was first shared, and a similar search of web archiving site archive.today turned up no archive of the supposed post.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest post sharing the image that The Canadian Press could find came from a humour account, \u201cAndy Bowers,\u201d \u00a0based in Nova Scotia under the handle @evilpez4.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11459263\/donald-trump-canada-51st-state-not-funny\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trump-51st-state.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tTrump\u2019s 51st state jibe \u2018not funny anymore,\u2019 MPs say\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11456209\/canada-economy-rebound-2026-report\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Deloitte-economic-outlook-2025.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada\u2019s economy could rebound in 2026 \u2014 but there\u2019s a catch: report\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The account posts memes and funny anecdotes, and has previously posted edited screenshots with satirical messages. One post featured a \u201cProvincial Alert\u201d about \u201cMAGA Musician\u201d Sean Feucht being attacked by a groundhog in Shubenacadie, in reference to that musician\u2019s controversial planned performance in Nova Scotia earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Truth Social posts are often peppered with all-capital words. While his posts are occasionally deleted, many that have caused controversy are still up. In one message, posted on April 28, Canada\u2019s federal election day, he implied Canadians should vote to make Canada \u201cthe cherished 51st. State of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parodies of Trump\u2019s Truth Social posts are common on social media. The Canadian Press previously fact checked a fake image appearing to show the president complaining about Canada\u2019s win against the United States this past February at the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Sports<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays clinched their first American League East Division title since 2015 with a win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[76,3307,1513,13815,49,48,75,462,82,507],"class_list":{"0":"post-183831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-blue-jays-baseball","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}