No, the Trump campaign is not selling swastika signs

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign did not officially use the swastika.

Contrary to some claims on social media, the ad campaign did not authorize a poster featuring a swastika of Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential candidate.

The claims began to emerge on October 27 after social media users shared photos of a swastika sign — a symbol associated with Nazi Germany — with the letter “T” in the middle above Trump’s brand.

One thread user claimed that the photos showed “Trump-funded swastika signs.”

The post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat fake news and misinformation in its news feed. (More about our partnership with Metawhich owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.)

Similar posts appeared on Facebook and Xclaiming that the Trump campaign produced and paid for the sign.

Facebook user Elizabeth Hrushkowski told PolitiFact that she first posted the photos to the South Carolina Women for Harris Walz Facebook group. Hrushkowska said she saw the sign while driving down the road and stopped to take a photo, which she shared online.

Signs of the sign correspond to the official ones Trump campaign signwhich does not contain a swastika. Like other Trump signs, the sign in the photos had a disclaimer in the lower right corner that it was “paid for by the Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee…and authorized by Donald J. Trump for President 2024, Inc.”

But the swastika sign is not an official Trump campaign sign, local officials and Trump’s headquarters said. Trump campaign spokesman Alex Pfeiffer said it was not a campaign-sponsored sign, saying “a fake sign is abhorrent.”

Faith Jackson, a secretary for the Barnwell County Sheriff’s Office, told PolitiFact that there was a swastika sign in the area pictured, which was a public road. Local Republicans were told the sign had a swastika on it and took it down sometime between Oct. 26 and 27, Jackson said.

Jackson said the sheriff’s office does not know how the image ended up on the sign, but she said the sign was not originally placed with the swastika.

“The sign was definitely fake,” Jackson said, adding that “it wasn’t posted, someone put it up.”

So while the sign in the photos was real and was in Barnwell, South Carolina, it was not an official campaign sign and was fake.

We consider the claim that the photos show “Trump-funded swastika signs” to be false.