Video of Trump Giving a Speech Shared With Misleading Context

We found out that the video has been taken out of context and shared with false claims.

A video of President Trump giving a speech at the FII Institute has been going viral with a misleading caption related to Iran's operation against a US aircraft carrier.  

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A video of President Trump speaking at the Future Investment Initiative Institute has been going viral with the claim that he is talking about Iran's operation against the US Navy's largest aircraft carrier.

What have the users said?: The videos have been shared with the caption, "Referring to Iran's operation against the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, Trump said: 'Iran attacked the world's largest aircraft carrier from 17 directions. We fled to save our lives. It was all over.'"

An archived version of this claim can be found here.

(Source: Facebook/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of more claims can be seen here, here, and here.)

At the time of writing this report, the post had gained over 60 thousand views on Facebook.

Is this claim true?: No, the video shows Trump talking about a Venezuelan General's reaction to an attack on them by the American forces.

How did we find out the truth?: We went to the official YouTube page of The White House and found the full version of President Trump's speech at the Future Investment Initiative.

• In the video, at around 20:46, President Trump is heard making the same statement as heard in the viral video.

Another airplane, a very fast plane, was coming off the deck of an aircraft carrier. That's actually the biggest aircraft carrier in the world. And every 32 seconds, vroom, vroom, vroom. And it was 1:00 in the morning, so we said, OK, I think we're in trouble. But they were ready for us, Johnny. And we were ready. He said, "We were ready, and then they hit us, and they came from 17 different angles. They were here, they were there, they -- we ran for our lives. It was over. And it was over."

Donald Trump

• Before this section of the video, which has been going viral on social media, Trump sets the context which is of the attack by the US military forces on Venezuela.

• This makes it evident that his entire statement is not included in the viral claim, leading to a misinterpretation of the context.

Conclusion: It is evident that the video has been shared without context to mislead the audience.

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