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   The airport replied, "Thanks, Dan." 
   
   Washington (CNN) As Hurricane Irma began pelting southern Florida with roaring winds and heavy rains on Sunday, White House social media director Dan Scavino tweeted a video of what he said was a waterlogged Miami International Airport, only to be corrected by the airport itself. 
   
   Scavino then deleted the erroneous post, one of many ostensible Hurricane Irma tweets that he said he was sharing with President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. 
   
   "Sharing #HurricaneIrma on social media with President @realDonaldTrump & @VP Pence hourly. Here is Miami International Airport. STAY SAFE!!" Scavino wrote, adding a video of an airport covered in water. 
   
   Miami International Airport responded to the tweet: "This video is not from Miami International Airport." 
   
   This video is not from Miami International Airport. — Miami Int'l Airport (@iflymia) September 10, 2017 
   
   Scavino, in turn, acknowledged the mistake and replied to the airport after deleting the tweet. 
   
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   White House social media director Dan Scavino in March. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) 
   
   President Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino, spent most of Sunday sharing with the world videos of Hurricane Irma’s fury in Florida — of a spinning stop sign and streets becoming rivers. 
   
   He posted a photo of Trump and Vice President Pence in a briefing room, too: hands folded, faces somber as they studied the storm. 
   
   And in a late-afternoon tweet, Scavino wrote that he was regularly sharing his tweets with both men — offering as apparent example a video of Miami’s flooded airport: 
   
   Which raised a host of questions almost immediately, after Miami International Airport informed Scavino, Pence and the president that the video was fake. 
   
   This video is not from Miami International Airport. — Miami Int'l Airport (@iflymia) September 10, 2017 
   
   Or, more accurately, that it’s not a video of Miami — or even of Hurricane Irma, apparently. 
   
   The White House did not respond to questions about why Scavino thought it was, or how he was verifying posts he shared with Trump — or how and whether Trump was using that information. 
   
   But the video appeared on YouTube and other sites more than a week ago, when what is now called Hurricane Irma was still far out at sea, as rains from Hurricane Harvey pummeled the gulf region. 
   
   The flooded runway in Scavino’s tweet was not in Miami, but in Mexico City, according to the video titles — though The Washington Post has not verified that. 
   
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   For whatever reason, people started posting the clip on Twitter early Sunday afternoon, mislabeled as Miami. 
   
   And then, around 4 p.m. Washington time, Scavino erroneously lent the weight of the White House to the fake story. 
   
   He deleted the tweet soon after the airport corrected him. “It was among 100s of videos/pix I am receiving,” Scavino wrote. “In trying to notify all, I shared.” 
   
   It’s unclear what he meant by notifying all, or whether it was one of the posts he said he shared with Trump as he oversees the federal response to the storm. 
   
   In any case, Miami International Airport is busy correcting countless others who believed the White House. ||||| Go to the Legal Help page to request content changes for legal reasons.
target: – President Trump's social media chief had to post a retraction Sunday after sharing a video that he wrongly believed showed the impact of Hurricane Irma. "Here is Miami International Airport. STAY SAFE!!" tweeted White House social media director Dan Scavino, posting a video of flooding at an airport. He was swiftly corrected by Miami International Airport itself, which pointed out that the video was not from the airport, CNN reports. The real location and date of the video has not been verified, though it was posted on YouTube on Aug. 31 with a title suggesting that it is Mexico City's airport. It resurfaced on Twitter Sunday mislabeled as Miami. "It was among 100s of videos/pix I am receiving," Scavino tweeted after being corrected. "In trying to notify all, I shared - have deleted." The error was noteworthy because when Scavino shared the video, it was an example of the tweets he said he was sharing with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence hourly, raising questions about the accuracy of his information, the Washington Post reports. The White House declined to comment on how Scavino was verifying posts that he shared with Trump and Pence. Miami International Airport, meanwhile, says it will be closed until at least Tuesday while damage assessment is carried out. (Irma made landfall in Florida for a second time Sunday.)