Declare:
An outdated photograph authentically exhibits U.S. President Donald Trump along with his daughter Ivanka Trump sitting on his lap.
Score:
Score: True
In mid-July 2025, an outdated photograph resurfaced on social media purportedly exhibiting U.S. President Donald Trump along with his then-teenage daughter Ivanka Trump sitting on his lap at what seemed to be a social occasion.
The photograph unfold following the discharge of a July 7 Division of Justice (DOJ) memo stating that the division’s assessment discovered no incriminating “shopper checklist” associated to deceased intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein and no credible proof that he had blackmailed outstanding folks.
(Leah McElrath/Bluesky)
For instance, on July 17, a Bluesky person posted (archived) the photograph and wrote: “So many creepy pics of Trump with Ivanka exist, together with this one during which it seems to be like she’s giving him a lap dance.”
Related claims appeared elsewhere on X (archived) and for years had circulated on Reddit (archived and archived). The photograph was shared by Trump critics alongside different photographs of Trump along with his daughter at numerous factors in her childhood and teenage years.
The photograph was genuine and never digitally manipulated or produced utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI). Subsequently we’ve rated this declare as true.
The photograph could be discovered on Getty Photographs, the place the caption states: “Dancing At Mar-A-Lago: Partygoers, together with Ivanka Trump (heart, in white) who her sits on her father, businessman Donald Trump’s lap throughout live performance (by the Seashore Boys).”
Getty says it was taken in 1996 on the Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Seashore, Florida, exhibiting a social gathering with a number of attendees seen within the background. Trump’s second spouse Marla Maples was seen seated within the entrance row left.
This isn’t the primary time Snopes has fact-checked photographs allegedly exhibiting Trump along with his daughter. We now have beforehand investigated different pictures exhibiting the pair in numerous time intervals.
Sources:
United States Division of Justice. “FBI Memo.” July 2025, https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline. Accessed 24 July 2025.
Wrona, Aleksandra. “Outdated pictures of Trump along with his daughter Ivanka have resurfaced. They’re actual.” Snopes, 23 July 2025. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-ivanka-lap-pic/. Accessed 24 July 2025.