Did Starbucks Place Trump’s Photo on the Floor So Every Customer Had to Step on It?

This news is absolutely false. For me as a barista of the Starbucks company I can say this is false. On 16 February 2017, the @TrumpThe45th Twitter account shared an image purportedly showing a Starbucks coffee store that was using an image of President Trump as their welcome mat:

This image was doctored, as the original does not feature a floor mat with President Donald Trump’s picture on it.

The original photograph was taken in March 2014 (nearly three years before Trump became president) at a Starbucks in California’s Disneyland Resort:

The @TrumpThe45th Twitter account, a shill account for the Departed Media fake news site, has previously peddled false stories about President Obama’s raising the retirement age, Vladimir Putin criticizing President Obama, and President Obama’s saying that even terrorists have rights.

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