Mr. Trump used an altered version of that footage, and he was far from the first to do so. The Nickelback meme is more than a decade old, and you can find multiple versions online: video clips or still photos of Mr. Kroeger holding up his photograph, with a funny or absurd picture edited into his frame.

(Part of the joke is that a lot of people don’t like Nickelback. The band is known for inspiring some pretty vigorous contempt, in spite of — and also because of — its history of filling stadiums and generating a steady stream of megahit singles that were inescapable on radio stations during the 2000s.)

In the video shared by Mr. Trump, the inserted photograph showed Joe Biden and Hunter Biden holding golf clubs. And as Fox News had reported on Tuesday, the man at far left was Devon Archer , who served with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company. In Mr. Trump’s video, that photograph was juxtaposed with a clip of Mr. Biden saying, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

But by Thursday morning, the video in Mr. Trump’s tweet was not there. In its place was a message saying that the video had been removed in response to a report from the copyright owner.