A rumor that U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, accepted a Rolls-Royce car as a gift from the British government circulated online in May 2025.
For example, on May 14, the America's Last Line of Defense Facebook page posted (archived) a meme showing a photo of Schumer and reading, "Chuck Schumer wants everyone to know that it's 'treason' for the U.S. government to accept a free jumbo jet from a foreign country. The same Chuck Schumer who drives to work everyday in a Rolls Royce GIFTED to him by the British Government." Other users also shared this rumor on Facebook and X.
(America's Last Line of Defense/Facebook)
Under the post, a page manager commented with a link to an article (archived) hosted by The Dunning-Kruger Times website. That article began:
Chuck Schumer is once again clutching his pearls and fuming into a microphone over President Trump's "questionable ethics." He doesn't like that Trump might accept a free jumbo jet on behalf of the Air Force. His real issue, however, seems to be with a new golf cart from the Scots.
Political favors? For a golf cart?
But sure, Chuck. Let's talk about gifts and political favors. Specifically, let's talk about the 2020 "courtesy vehicle" the British government sent Schumer after his "climate diplomacy" trip to London. According to DOGE records, that vehicle was a custom Rolls Royce Phantom valued at $540,000—complete with a monogrammed umbrella and heated cup holders for Schumer's lukewarm soy lattes.
Some readers seemed to interpret the rumor as a factual recounting of real-life events. However, searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo and Google, as well as newspaper and literary archives on Newspapers.com and Google Books, found no evidence of Schumer owning a Rolls-Royce.
Rather, the America's Last Line of Defense Facebook page and The Dunning-Kruger Times website both belong to the America's Last Line of Defense network of Facebook pages and websites, whose owner describes its content as satirical in nature.
The bio (archived) for the America's Last Line of Defense Facebook page reads, "The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real." The photo included in the post itself displayed a label reading "S" for "satire."
Meanwhile, The Dunning-Kruger Times features an "About Us" page describing its content as "a subsidiary of the 'America's Last Line of Defense' network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery." The page also makes a humorous mention of Snopes.
Snopes contacted Schumer's office by email to ask if they wished to comment on this matter.
The name of the satire-based website referenced the Dunning-Kruger effect, defined by Britannica as "a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general."
The fictional story spread in the days after U.S. President Donald Trump posted (archived) on his Truth Social account that the nation of Qatar offered the Department of Defense a "gift" of a $400 million luxury Boeing 747-8 to be remodeled into a new, and allegedly temporary, Air Force One. The Associated Press reported Schumer responded to the news by saying he intended to hold up all Department of Justice nominations on the Senate floor until he received more answers about the jumbo jet.
For further reading, America's Last Line of Defense previously promoted numerous other untrue stories about Schumer, including satirical articles claiming he impregnated high school cheerleaders and accepted a $500,000 campaign donation from pro-immigration groups just prior to a crucial congressional vote.
For background, here is why we alert readers to rumors created by sources calling their output humorous or satirical.