President's situation room photo has wrong times sparking conspiracy theories

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"One of the things we learned pretty early on is 'Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet - because they will catch you.'" - Gabe Newell

Conspiracy is a loaded term, but this is most likely just a PR gaffe using an old photo someone didn't think had any inconsistencies in it. The takeaway is, be authentic with these sorts of things.

Yes, the next thing we learned was that the internet would catch you lying, even if you aren't.

I'm pretty sure the most likely thing is that they just forgot to change the clock.

If that's the case (which it really could be), it is also embarrassing that the people who maintain that situation room aren't giving POTUS accurate information. That also means this clock has been wrong since March and no one has caught on to that until now. You would expect they'd be on top of something like this.

Or they adjust and live with it.

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