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Donald Trump Tweets a Photo of His Private Parts?

Despite rumors, Trump did not tweet out a photo of his genitals.

Published March 8, 2016

Claim:
Donald Trump tweeted an image of his genitals following penis-related banter at a Republican debate.

In March 2016, dubious web sites published an article claiming that Donald Trump responded to a recent insult by tweeting a graphic image of his genitalia:

Donald Trump has broken all kinds of norms during his presidential campaign, but he just went to a whole new level this morning by tweeting what is supposedly an image of his private-parts. The tweet was quickly deleted but not before being retweeted over 5,000 times.

The tweet comes in response to comments made by Marco Rubio about the size of Donald Trump’s hands during the Republican debate last night.

The claim included an image of the purported tweet:

trump penis tweet

This story, however, was entirely fabricated. The claim originated from a clickbait fake news site that infringes the trademark-protected visual elements and domain names of legitimate news outlets in order to generate traffic and drive advertising revenues by creating and spreading entirely false "news" stories.

Kim LaCapria is a former writer for Snopes.

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