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Facebook users shared a supposed video of Trump at Walter Reed hospital. It’s AI-generated

Facebook users shared a supposed video of Trump at Walter Reed hospital. It’s AI-generated
AI created videos and photos are getting harder to detect. Recently, billionaire Warren Buffett denounced deep fakes after videos that appear to feature his image and voice surfaced online. Now I know what you're thinking, Warren, you're being dramatic. You're trying to scare me. It's not me, his company said in *** press release, warning that viewers could be misled by the content of those videos. *** deepfake is *** computer-created image or voice or video of *** person, either *** person who Doesn't exist but seems real. Or *** person who does exist, making them do or say something they never actually did or said. Stay seated, everyone. I've got it. Deepfakes and AI altered content are difficult to spot. So here's some help. Starting with deep fake audio. You want to listen for things that don't quite sound human. And with deep fakes, if you listen, sometimes they will take no breaths when they're talking, and that comes to video or audio. So you may actually feel *** sense of breathlessness when you listen. Next, be sure to take *** close look at the visuals. Often, the physiology isn't quite working yet. The pieces and parts of the face aren't quite together yet. And don't immediately assume what you see and hear is correct. Go and verify the message. Is this message real? We need to go back to that basic message. What do they want from me? Could it hurt me? Can I verify it? And if you can't verify it, don't do it. Another clear sign of video is AI generated *** watermark like this one from Sora, the video creation app from OpenAI. If you see this logo on *** video like the clips we've just shown you, you can be sure they were created using AI in Washington I'm Christopher Sela.
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Updated: 8:40 PM EDT Apr 21, 2026
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Facebook users shared a supposed video of Trump at Walter Reed hospital. It’s AI-generated
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Updated: 8:40 PM EDT Apr 21, 2026
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Two weeks after unfounded rumors said President Donald Trump suffered a health issue, social media users shared a video they said showed proof he was just taken to a hospital.This story was originally published on PolitiFact. Read it here.In the video, two men appear to assist Trump as he walks unsteadily out of a building. A sign on the building reads "Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.""BREAKING: There are some reports Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Hospital," the captions of multiple Facebook posts sharing the video read. The earliest we found was posted April 19 and the latest was posted April 21.The footage isn’t real. It contains signs that it was made with artificial intelligence.We contacted the Walter Reed hospital’s communications office, which said that the logo shown in the video is not the hospital’s official logo, and the signage is inconsistent with that at the hospital.When the video zooms in on the scene, it reveals the text on the sign to be gibberish. The logo also doesn’t match any of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s current or previous logos.We ran the clip through Google Gemini, which detected SynthID, a digital watermark embedded in Google AI tool creations; it’s invisible to humans, but Google’s technology can identify it.We contacted the White House to ask if Trump visited Walter Reed in the past two weeks but did not hear back. We found no recent news reports that Trump visited the hospital.His calendar showed he had a policy meeting and signed executive orders on April 20, and scheduled executive time on both April 19 and 20. On April 21, Trump joined CNBC’s "Squawk Box" for a phone interview. Trump’s Truth Social page also remained active in the last few days. This video doesn’t show Trump at the Walter Reed hospital.We rate that claim false.

Two weeks after unfounded rumors said President Donald Trump suffered a health issue, social media users shared a video they said showed proof he was just taken to a hospital.

This story was originally published on PolitiFact. Read it here.

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In the video, two men appear to assist Trump as he walks unsteadily out of a building. A sign on the building reads "Walter Reed National Military Medical Center."

"BREAKING: There are some reports Trump has been taken to Walter Reed Hospital," the captions of multiple Facebook posts sharing the video read. The earliest we found was posted April 19 and the latest was posted April 21.

The footage isn’t real. It contains signs that it was made with artificial intelligence.

We contacted the Walter Reed hospital’s communications office, which said that the logo shown in the video is not the hospital’s official logo, and the signage is inconsistent with that at the hospital.

When the video zooms in on the scene, it reveals the text on the sign to be gibberish. The logo also doesn’t match any of the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center’s current or previous logos.

We ran the clip through Google Gemini, which detected SynthID, a digital watermark embedded in Google AI tool creations; it’s invisible to humans, but Google’s technology can identify it.

Screenshots from Facebook of the AI-generated video.
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Screenshots from Facebook of the AI-generated video.

We contacted the White House to ask if Trump visited Walter Reed in the past two weeks but did not hear back. We found no recent news reports that Trump visited the hospital.

His calendar showed he had a policy meeting and signed executive orders on April 20, and scheduled executive time on both April 19 and 20. On April 21, Trump joined CNBC’s "Squawk Box" for a phone interview. Trump’s Truth Social page also remained active in the last few days. This video doesn’t show Trump at the Walter Reed hospital.

We rate that claim false.

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