Brad Parscale tweeted an impressive image of Air Force One arriving at the Daytona 500. It was from 2004.

Trump leaves Daytona
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Brad Parscale, President Trump's campaign manager, deleted a tweet Sunday that contained a photo meant to depict a large crowd greeting Air Force One at the Daytona 500 race in Florida after Twitter users pointed out that the photo was from former President George W. Bush's visit in 2004.

".@realDonaldTrump won the #Daytona500 before the race even started," Parscale tweeted alongside the photo. CNN reports it was online for three hours and retweeted nearly 7,000 times before he pulled it and replaced it with a real photo from Trump's visit, showing seemingly smaller crowds:

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.