Rapper 50 Cent recently shared a photo of President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden lounging on the beach paired with an Oct. 20 Daily Mail headline: “Biden hits the beach with Congress in chaos.”
“Hey Joe get the fvck up, we in trouble man,” 50 Cent wrote in the Oct. 22Â post.
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The Bidens departed The White House Oct. 20 for their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, according to the president’s public schedule. They returned Oct. 23.
But the photo in the Instagram post isn’t from that trip. It’s from Aug. 2.
The Daily Mail caption says it shows the Bidens “reading and taking a nap on the beach during a trip to the shore in August.”
Video footage from the recent October trip shows the Bidens walking along the beach.
But we rate claims that the photo of the Bidens lounging on the beach was taken in October 2023 False.
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