Video of US President Donald Trump Destroying His Office Is AI-Generated

We found that the video was generated using OpenAI.

An AI-generated video is going viral on social media with false claims that it shows US President Donald Trump destroying his office after the defeat of the Republican Party in the 2026 US midterm elections.

(Source: X/Altered by The Quint)

A video is going viral on social media, claiming to show United States President Donald Trump destroying his office after the defeat of the Republican Party in the 2026 US midterm elections.

An archived version of this claim can be found here.

(Source: X/Screenshot)

(Archived versions of similar claims can be found here, here, and here.)

Is it true?: No, the claim is false, as the video is AI-generated.

How did we find out?: We ran a reverse image search on the video but couldn't find any credible sources sharing the video.

• We noticed that the video has a label that reads, 'AI-Generated.'

The label in the video says 'AI-Generated.'

(Source: X/Screenshot)

Is it AI?: We ran the video through DeepFake-O-Meter, and three of its detectors flagged the viral clip as AI-generated.

Here is the result of AI detection by DeepFake-O-Meter.

(Source: DeepFake-O-Meter/Screenshot)

• Following this, we ran the video through SynthID Detector, which concluded the content was generated or edited using OpenAI tools because it detected a SynthID watermark.

The video was made or edited using OpenAI tools.

(Source: SynthID Detector/ Screenshot)

Conclusion: The video was AI-generated and does not show a real video of Trump destroying his office.

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