Donald Trump tweeted an altered image of the dog involved in the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid. We know the dog is a hero, but this is just bizarre.

AMERICAN HERO! pic.twitter.com/XCCa2sGfsZ

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 30, 2019

The image appears to have been created by The Daily Wire. New York Times reports:

The image, which bears a watermark for a social media account for the conservative news site The Daily Wire, appeared to be an altered version of a 2017 Associated Press photograph. In the original, Mr. Trump is seen awarding a Medal of Honor to James C. McCloughan, a retired Army medic who is credited with saving the lives of 10 men during the war in Vietnam.

Here are the images side by side.

President Trump on Wednesday shared a photograph from 2017 altered to show him placing a medal around the neck of the dog injured in the raid that led to the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s leader.https://t.co/XUWwq0b9Ie

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2019

Trump’s photoshopped image disrespects all brave Americans who have served in our military, it disrespects the Medal of Honor, it disrespects the person who won the award he photoshopped over, it disrespects the dog, and yes, it disrespects the hell out of the American flag.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) October 30, 2019

Molly Knight, a reporter for The Athletic LA remarked, “How could they possibly screw up a lovely story about a brave dog helping to capture the world’s most wanted terrorist? By photoshopping said dog into a picture with Trump to remind us this president would never, ever, ever touch a dog in real life.”

In her 2017 memoir, Ivana Trump wrote, “Donald was not a dog fan.” So this photoshopped image may be the closest Trump actually gets to this hero.