Video Proof: ‘Trump Car’ Being Destroyed in Black Neighborhood Was Staged HOAX

On Monday night, YouTuber Joey Salads was riding high. The prankster’s taped “social experiment”—in which a car covered in Donald Trump bumper stickers left in a black neighborhood was destroyed by “thugs” after only thirty minutes—went viral. The footage earned Salads coverage from mainstream outlets like Real Clear Politics, and even landed him the coveted top spot on massive conservative media outlet The Drudge Report.

But that high didn’t last long.