An uncanny lookalike of Donald Trump was spotted riding a bus in southern Russia on the day the real U.S. president met his Russian counterpart thousands of miles away.
A picture of an unnamed woman gazing out of a window with Trump’s trademark haughty gaze was published on Russian social media hours before the two leaders held a summit in Helsinki on Monday.
“That moment when the American president is hiding from the FSB,” reads the caption under the photograph posted by a local news portal on the Vkontakte social network.
Some 61,000 users saw the picture as of Tuesday afternoon, nearly 100 of whom marveled at the resemblance to Trump in the comments section, while others debated the photo’s authenticity.
The photo emerged a few months after an image of a Spanish woman dubbed Trump’s doppelganger went viral on social media.
“It’s because of my hair color,” Dolores Leis Antelo, the Galician farmer pictured with a hoe on her farm, said in an interview in April.
Meanwhile, Trump’s lookalike in Rostov-on-Don was pictured wearing a straw hat, conveniently hiding her hair from view.
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