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Actress Debra Messing shared a tweet comparing Donald Trump's photo taken at St. John's Church Monday to a photoshopped picture of Adolf Hitler holding a Bible.

star Debra Messing, posted a tweet comparing President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's church to an edited image of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler appearing to show a Bible in a similar pose. Shortly after"A dog whistle to white nationalists and Nazis," Messing

, alongside an image pairing the manipulated Hitler photo with Trump's, and the caption"This is not an accident!"Prior to the tag, the tweet had received over 9,000 retweets and 19,000 likes. A number of replies identified the image as a fake.asked a Twitter representative why Messing's tweet did not have the"manipulated media" tag that the social media giant had been adding to other tweets with edited photos.email, the"manipulated media" tag had been added.

Actress Debra Messing, shown here at the American Airlines Theatre on March 12, 2020 in New York City, tweeted an image of Donald Trump compared with Adolf Hitler on Tuesday.

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