Former President Donald Trump did not talk about deadly Panera Bread lemonade in an Iowa speech, although images with fabricated captions appear to show that he did.
Four screenshots of Trump delivering a Dec. 13 speech in Coralville, Iowa, were shared on Facebook, and the first was overlaid with text that read, “Everything is bad under Biden. Even the lemonade is killing people. Did you see that? People drink lemonade and die.”
One of the other screenshots read, “The lemonade didn’t kill you when I was President. It was tasty and fun to drink. We loved the lemonade, didn’t we?”
Earlier this year, two Panera Bread customers who drank the company’s caffeine-charged lemonade died from cardiac arrest.
The Facebook post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
The full video of Trump’s speech shows he did not make these remarks.
The screenshots appeared to have originated from a Dec. 15 post on comedian Keaton Patti’s X account, where it earned a community note.
We rate the claim that during a speech Trump said “even the lemonade is killing people” under Biden Pants on Fire!