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FalseA video shared in mid-July 2025 authentically showed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott saying, "I support ICE deporting the Mexicans who helped during the floods. They didn't have authorization, I've confirmed it."SnopesJul 15, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump said about the victims of the Texas floods: "I just hope the dead are immigrants, not Americans."SnopesJul 15, 2025FalseA 2025 research paper showed that a major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere reversed directions for the first time in recorded history.SnopesJul 15, 2025Can’t tellIn a letter to the people of the U.S., Liberian President Joseph Boakai offered to give English lessons to President Donald Trump.SnopesJul 14, 2025FalseA meme authentically shows a satellite image of South America where Venezuela stands out as the only country without any lights on at night.SnopesJul 14, 2025FalseAn image authentically showed Jeffrey Epstein posing with U.S. President Donald Trump and a young girl.SnopesJul 14, 2025Can’t tellActor Robin Williams once said, "People don't fake depression ... they fake being okay."SnopesJul 14, 2025FalseThe Kerr County, Texas, sheriff “said he would apply for a green card for the Mexican rescue team that saved his family.”Said by X postsPolitiFactJul 14, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship for children born to immigrants in the country illegally and people on temporary status would have resulted in four of his five children being deported, as they were born to immigrant mothers.SnopesJul 14, 2025FalseIn the spring and summer of 2025, social media posts accurately claimed adding Hawaiian pink salt to a glass of lemon water favors weight loss.SnopesJul 14, 2025TrueIn early July 2025, former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb said Trump was "worse than anyone in our history."SnopesJul 13, 2025FalsePhotograph authentically shows Pope John Paul II playing baseball.SnopesJul 13, 2025Can’t tellAn image authentically depicts U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem's ancestor as an Auschwitz guard.SnopesJul 13, 2025FalseRainmaker Technology Corporation's cloud seeding mission caused deadly flooding in parts of Texas over Fourth of July weekend in 2025.SnopesJul 12, 2025Can’t tellFormer U.S. first lady Michelle Obama agreed to repay $2.3 million to the Department of the Treasury she received from the general fund for "White House expenses."SnopesJul 12, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump said "You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places... I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes" in reference to deadly Texas floods.SnopesJul 12, 2025FalseBasketball star Caitlin Clark offered to pay Texas flash flood victims' funeral expenses, with both her and her team, the WNBA's Indiana Fever, donating millions of dollars in support.SnopesJul 12, 2025TrueWhite House social media accounts including Facebook and X posted a picture depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as Superman.SnopesJul 12, 2025FalseU.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: “Could you all just FOCUS on the very many other more important things to discuss than whether or not I may or MAY NOT be all over the Epstein Files? There was a BIG FLOOD in Texas. Huge flood as it relates to water. Many people DIED. Many beautiful young girls. Perhaps some not so beautiful illegal Mexican peoples as well. Perhaps drug dealers disguised as day laborers. You can never tell. They don't speak American. That is very suspicious. Again, forget about me and the Epstein Files. Focus on MEXICANS and FLOODING.”SnopesJul 12, 2025FalseSinger Jelly Roll donated $50 million and traveled to Texas to support victims of the flash floods occurring in July 2025.SnopesJul 11, 2025FalseAn image authentically shows Mr. Rogers wearing a Bob Ross T-shirt while posing with Steve Irwin.SnopesJul 11, 2025FalseA photograph authentically shows a masculine-looking Michelle Obama posing next to Barack Obama.SnopesJul 11, 2025FalseA Congressional Budget Office estimate of people who stand to lose insurance from President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law said “about 5 million … have other insurance,” so “if they lose one (type of coverage), they're still insured.”Said by Kevin HassettPolitiFactJul 11, 2025FalseThere is “zero impact” from Alligator Alcatraz on the Florida Everglades.Said by Ron DeSantisPolitiFactJul 11, 2025