‘I Wish Iraqi Journalist Muntadhar Al-Zaidi a Very Pleasant Anniversary of the Time He Threw a Shoe at George W. Bush’ A screenshot of an alleged Twitter exchange involving Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi spread on social media in December 2022.
Tikrit Shoe Statue In May 2022, a popular post on Reddit purportedly depicted a "monument in Tikrit, Iraq" that memoralized the shoes thrown at former U.S. leader George W. Bush.