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As we’ve noted many times here before, Hillary Clinton is definitely not the kind of Democrat to let a crisis go to waste.

There’s a photo circulating around on social media that shows the White House with the lights out. It looks dark, gloomy, and abandoned, like nobody’s home.

Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) shared it on her Twitter page Monday to feed into the media/Democrat-driven narrative that President Trump is so scared of what’s going on that he’s left the White House and hiding out in the bunker:

History will remember the night the president cowered in the dark as his country burned for justice. pic.twitter.com/eQhmhflMYl

— Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (@RepDMP) June 1, 2020

The photo has been widely circulated, and has become the source for many memes pushed by other prominent leftists, including David Axelrod, who is a former senior adviser to President Obama:

Perfect symbolism. If ever the country needed the occupant of the White House to shed light, and not heat, now is the time. Sadly, the lights are out. pic.twitter.com/5i8e60Ipcv

— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 1, 2020

Clinton, the failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, also took part in the meme sharing with this attempted dunk. On the left is a photo of the White House lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate “Pride” month during the Obama administration:

Elections matter. https://t.co/77jquAhp1x pic.twitter.com/AM5Z42pzyk

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2020

The only problem with the dark White House photo that’s being widely shared is that it … was taken during Obama’s time in office:

David, this photo was taken during the Obama years. #Irony https://t.co/wHi7Gipw8V

— Sister Toldjah 😁 (@sistertoldjah) June 2, 2020

And not only was it not a photo of the Trump White House, but the photo was also altered from the original image. Twitter’s “fact checkers” were nowhere to be found, but the DC Examiner’s Emily Larsen did some digging:

The viral photo of lights-out/blackout White House shared by Hillary Clinton, Instagrammers & countless others was 1. not taken during the Trump administration, let alone over the weekend, and 2. edited to darken lights that were on in the original https://t.co/edD1wxhWRJ pic.twitter.com/kuE4yptv5z

— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) June 2, 2020

Per AP fact check, the original photo was uploaded to a Getty Images iStock in December 2015. In that pic, more of the outside lights are on. Here it is again in a March 2017 think tank blog post. https://t.co/edD1wxhWRJ pic.twitter.com/wFpt1yC5ks

— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) June 2, 2020

Read the full AP fact check here.

To add even more insult to injury for Clinton, it was noted by a CNN reporter who is not exactly a fan of President Trump’s that it is routine practice for many of the lights at the White House to be turned off late at night (which, of course, is what most people do at their own homes):

As CNN's @kaitlancollins and others have noted, the WH routinely turns off lights late at night but leaves some on. Per the AP, other photos taken on Sunday night showed a few exterior lights on, not all of them dark like in the old, edited viral pic. https://t.co/edD1wxhWRJ pic.twitter.com/5HqATPKYoY

— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) June 2, 2020

All that said, many of us appreciate Hillary’s accidental presidential election-year reminder to America of just how things operated during the Obama-Biden years:

The use of faked, old photos is indeed symbolic for how the Obama administration operated politically. https://t.co/nGQsSbaDYO

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) June 2, 2020

Final point: Hillary Clinton doesn’t really want to go there on leaders being MIA, does she? Does she? Because we totally can.

(Hat tip: Twitchy)