Walking around D.C. over the weekend was surreal. Winter started more than three weeks ago, but if you went outside in the 70-degree weather, you might have spotted smiling couples wearing shorts, shirtless players on outdoor basketball courts, pantless Metro riders, even cherry blossoms blooming like it’s early spring.

On Pennsylvania Ave., however, things were a bit frostier. While the rest of D.C. reveled in warm weather bliss, the White House tweeted a photo with thick snowflakes falling on the north lawn. “First snow of the year!” the caption read.

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Twitter went wild. “Do you people have to lie about everything?” wrote one frustrated commenter. Supporters of President Donald Trump laughed at “libs” being “triggered” by a tweet about the weather. “It’s been snowing in Russia for two weeks,” wrote Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko.

Amid the kerfuffle, Mayor Muriel Bowser took the opportunity to tweet “#FakeNews” and, “However, #GlobalWarmingIsReal.”

But while the thread raged with the combative ethos of 2020 politics, others simply waited for the punchline to what seemed like a prank.

No, it was no prank at all. As Newsweek reported, just before midnight on Sunday—around three hours after the “First snow of the year!” tweet—the White House shared photo that inspired the tweet to Flickr. As suspected, the photo was taken during the wintry mix on January 7.

As Newsweek points out, this misleading weather report from the White House shouldn’t come as a surprise. Last year, Trump shared a barrage of tweets during Hurricane Dorian, mistakenly asserting that Alabama would be hit hard by the storm that largely affected the Carolinas. He defended a map of the storm that was reportedly doctored with a black Sharpie—by him.

Everything should cool down later this week, though, as the Capital Weather Gang predicts a return of cold air in the region by Friday.