Claim A Trump flag was raised in place of an American flag at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2020. Origin Why no rating on this article? This is a trending topic but has not yet been rated by Snopes for reasons we’ll outline below. On Jan. 6, 2020, as a pro-Trump mob breached the U.S. Capitol in an apparent effort to stop the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, images started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed a group of rioters replacing an American flag with a Trump flag: This is a genuine screenshot of an MSNBC broadcast about the riots at the U.S. Capitol. It’s a bit difficult, however, to tell exactly what is happening.