Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star had a drain installed after people repeatedly urinated on it.
In early June 2024, user X posted an image of what appeared to be a drain installed on former US President Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star, which appeared to be covered in murky dirt.
A day earlier, a Reddit user had posted the same photo, claiming it was their favorite place to urinate in Los Angeles.
“This is my favorite pee spot in LA,” they wrote.
The Reddit post included a screenshot of X's post, which has been viewed more than 540,000 times at the time of writing, with the caption “I had to install a drain.”
Similar posts have appeared on X and elsewhere on Reddit.
However, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the Walk of Fame, told Snopes that Trump's star does not have a drain, and a reverse image search of the image in question turned up similar photos (same angle, lighting, etc.) of Trump's star without a drain.
An HCC spokesman also said that to their knowledge, people have never urinated on the landmark, adding that there had also been no recent incidents of vandalism at the star.
Based on the evidence, the photo appears to be a digital creation. We have rated the claim as False.
Similarly, no credible news outlet reported that a drain was added to President Trump's Hall of Fame star because people were urinating on it, but if that was true it would have been newsworthy.
For example, numerous publications have reported that the planet has been vandalized or defaced on multiple occasions in the past, including in October 2016, July 2018, and October 2020.
In 2016, Snopes investigated claims that people were defecating on President Trump's planet.
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