By An Old Piece Of Leather
From Badlands Media News Brief
Auser on social media has claimed that a photo taken at the weekend of President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating McDonald’s was predicted in an 18th Century painting.
The photograph, which went viral on Sunday, showed Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and Donald Trump Jr. enjoying a McDonald’s meal aboard Trump’s plane Trump Force One, while House Speaker Mike Johnson stood in the background.
Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications, posted the photo to X (formerly Twitter) shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Sunday after the group’s trip to a UFC fight in New York City.
The Claim
On Monday, X user @boneGPT reposted the image alongside an image which the user said was a painting from 1721.
“This 1721 painting by Deitz Nuützen predicted the Trump-Elon-RFK McDonalds dinner,” the user wrote.

The “painting” depicts four men, two wearing crowns, dining together, with a fifth in the background. Their poses are identical to the photograph and the layout of the setting is extremely similar.
Musk, who owns X and frequently posts on the platform, replied to the post with a laughing emoji.
It had been viewed 4.3 million times by Tuesday and reposted by many other accounts.
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False.
The painting is almost certainly an artificially generated image created by @boneGPT.
There is no evidence of an 18th Century painter called Deitz Nuützen nor any evidence that the alleged painting existed before Monday.
This appears to be a “deez nutz” joke. — Newsweek
Our Take: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Let me be the first to say that I, too, first thought that this painting and artist were legit. But then Mike Benz (who also fell for it) pointed out that the artist’s name is a Dutch (?) version of Deez Nutz—one of the oldest memes/jokes on the internet.
(I looked, the artist doesn’t exist.)
The MSM just got rickrolled by some savvy edgelord.
(Touché, my anon. We salute you.) —
LOLOL…
anoldpieceofleather

OMG!… i just spit out my water… that is freaking hilarious!
Perfect, Rick Astley. KayD