Did Trump's kindness 'ruin' Secret Service agent? Don't fall for tall tale

Claim: A U.S. Secret Service agent said working for U.S. President Donald Trump had "ruined" him because of the president's kindness. Rating: A claim (archived) circulated online in September 2026 that a U.S. Secret Service agent said working for President Donald Trump had "ruined" him because of the president's kindness. According to one Facebook user, the agent in question said: Trump RUINED me for this job. Not because he's difficult — but because he's completely different. Trump knows my NAME. Other Presidents called me "agent." Trump calls me by my actual name. The same claim, text and image also circulated elsewhere on Facebook (archived, archived, archived, archived). We previously investigated this rumor in March 2026 and found it false. We found then that the rumor originated from the "Garvit pandey" Facebook page, which appeared to mass-produce baseless stories about Trump using unrelated images. Snopes had previously found another such story from that page to be false. There was no credible reporting to support the claim at the time of this writing (archived, archived, archived).The text and images that accompanied the claim appeared to have been generated or edited using artificial intelligence. This, taken together with the unreliable nature of the claim's source, led us to rate this claim false. Users who create content like the story about the alleged Secret Service agent capitalize on social media users' willingness to believe and share the made-up claims, profiting from advertising revenue on external websites to which the posts link. (Snopes has previously reported on the business strategy.) A Secret Service spokesperson told Snopes via phone in March 2026 that they could not comment on the interview's authenticity without an agent's name, which neither "Garvit pandey" nor later posts included. We contacted a manager of the "Garvit pandey" Facebook page ask for more details about the story or an explanation of why it shared the alleged quote without a disclaimer that it was false. We had not gotten a reply by September 2026. Text and images provided clues to story's falsehood The post on the "Garvit pandey" Facebook page displayed several signs of AI-generated text. For example, the text used all caps on some words for emphasis, a tool not generally used in traditional reporting. Pangram, a highly regarded artificial intelligence detector for images and text, assessed the Facebook post's text to be fully AI. Let us note here: These types of AI detection tools are fallible. Snopes cautions people against using them for definitive answers on media's authenticity without supporting evidence. Aside from likely AI-generated text, the post that circulated in September 2026 appeared to use edited or fake images that showed Trump with Secret Service agents. Two of the images in the collage showed agents surrounding Trump at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, in 2016. However, the Facebook post used a version of one of those photos with a different background. An authentic portrait of James M. Murray, a Trump-appointed former head of the Secret Service who stepped down in 2022, also appeared with a different background in the September 2026 Facebook post. Another image that showed Trump looking down with an agent standing behind him (upper left corner) also appeared to have been enhanced from the original and given a different background. Pangram found the entire collage to be fully AI. 'Garvit pandey' page spreads fake stories about Trump Snopes previously investigated the "Garvit pandey" page that originally shared the false story in March 2026. Our review found several users accusing the page of posting AI-generated stories. We also found that posts on the page contained common markers of AI-generated stories like excessive use of emojis, repetition of one core message and calls to action. The story about the Secret Service agent included all of these markers. The above factors led us to conclude that stories on the page were either falsified or misattributed. The fictional story about the Secret Service agent heaping praise on Trump resembled glurge, which Dictionary.com defines as "stories, often sent by email, that are supposed to be true and uplifting, but which are often fabricated and sentimental." Snopes has previously investigated other rumors involving the Secret Service, including whether a "reptilian" agent guarded former U.S. President Barack Obama and whether the service went "broke" paying for agents to guard the Trump family.