White House really posted image of Trump as Minecraft character

In December 2025, social media users shared what appeared to be a screenshot of the official White House X account posting an image of U.S. President Donald Trump as a character from the popular game Minecraft. In the screenshot, the White House wrote, "AMERICA'S MOST PRO-GAMER PRESIDENT" followed by a trophy emoji and the image.

The claim was spread on Reddit (archived), X (archived), Threads (archived) and Facebook (archived). Snopes readers searched the site to find out whether the claim was true.

The screenshot was of a real social media post from the White House. It posted the image of Trump as a Minecraft character to multiple social media sites, including X (archived) and Instagram (archived). Therefore we've rated this claim true.

The White House posted the image in response to an article from Moss Adams, an accountant advisory firm, explaining how video game developers could take advantage of research and development tax credits (which have existed for years).

This isn't the first time the White House has posted an image of Trump as a character from a video game. In October, it posted an image (archived) of Trump with the armor of the Halo franchise's Master Chief. Some people on social media doubted the authenticity of that post (archived), as well.

But while the post was real, the image within it did not appear to be a real screenshot from the game Minecraft. People who play Minecraft can customize their character models by uploading a flat image file. This makes it impossible for someone to layer the clothing on their character model, like the bottom portions of the tie and the suit jacket are on the Trump's character.

Trump's character model also had several other giveaways that it was not an in-game screenshot and was likely even generated by artificial intelligence  tools. The model bends at the elbows and knees, something real Minecraft models don't do. The American flag pin, which was visible on the version from X but not the version the White House posted to Instagram, was too small and detailed to be on a real Minecraft model.

While AI detection tools are prone to mistakes and cannot be used alone to determine if an image was created with AI tools, two tools, Hive and Sightengine, rated the likelihood the image was AI-generated to be 100% and 99%, respectively.

Snopes has previously fact-checked other claims about posts apparently made by Trump or the White House, such as this fabricated post of Trump saying "the king decides" what's a war crime.