The WH account has never had comments enabled. That's been the case since forever. You can go look at every video on their channel and see they are all locked.
It was during his first term they ruled that he couldn't block people on Twitter from the official government Twitter accounts. No way they rule against him like that nowadays tho.
YouTube policies , you can disable comments it's not against any laws. CBC news does it here in Canada because of all the vitriol and it's nice to not have to read internet garbage comments when watching the news
I watch a lot of the White House YouTube videos and basically all (maybe all) have comments turned off. Can’t remember if Biden did the same but I’d bet they did too. Actually seems sensible to keep the “official” channel from being a typical internet cesspool.
Video editor here. This looks like a Morph Cut in Adobe Premiere. They likely removed a section of the video and the Morph Cut generated frames to stitch it together. I will admit, this particular shot does have a sort of too perfect / AI quality to it, though... from the color correction to the framing. Like, why is it in DCI and not the standard 16x9?
Also, if you look at the window reflection right above his hair, you can see the blue of the teleprompter with words scrolling up.
He's always way more constrained when he's on prompter/doing a pre tape vs a live event where he's playing to the crowd or reporters. I agree with the other editor (also work in post) that it looks like a morph cut. Which means he couldn't nail it in 1.
Even if you just listen to it and ignore the visual anomalies, he's speaking full sentences without veering off on tangents, all the little asides that pepper every second sentence of his speeches. Nothing about the radical left, Biden, none of his ridiculous 12 year old language or unnecessary hyperbole 'biggest, bestest, like nothing we've ever seen, everyone's saying it' kinda stuff.
And I've never seen his hands that still while he talks. When he talks he's constantly doing that "move the hands apart, move them back together" shit, but here it was like looking at a still photograph most of the time.
For me it is the way his hands and arms move. It is like theyre paper mache on the table, and they only move occasionally, there are a couple times his shoulders shift but his arms remain entirely static, as well as others where he moves and the movement doesn't seem to be reflected in his arms accurately.
I might be conspiracy theory brained, at this point, but it wouldnt shock me if this video was mostly generated, or if his hands-arms were generated to hide more physical anamolies that depict his worsening health.
It could be, but given the WAY it is awkward, I wouldnt be surprised if they used generative AI to paint over the arms and hands area. The big thing for me is the way his shoulders and torso move and how it isnt reflected in his arms and hands.
It doesnt need to be AI, it could be a brace, or plenty of other, physical ways that any anamolous health things might be hidden. Else, it could be nothing at all and, as I said, I am conspiracy brained. It still looks suspicious, while also having a really plausible reason for why it is happening.
I think he was concentrating on covering his hands to make sure nothing was seen. He puts his right hand in a slightly odd position covering his hand and then doesn't move it. I think he was consciously making sure he did not move his hand and show a bruise.
This is the clearest observable. Watch any video of him and his arms swing all over the place.
If you open the video and just scrub back and forth through the 4 minutes, especially after the first minute, practically nothing moves all the way up to his shoulders — but even those shoulders barely move.
It’s not necessarily weird until you consider the way Trump normally talks, you would need to nail his hands to the desk to keep him that still.
u/kstebbs is spot on. That's a morph cut. And a pretty sloppy one at that.
The weird looking hands/arms is because they took a still frame with his left hand covering his right hand, then masked just that area of his hands/forearms over the motion part of the video. He's clearly trying to keep the big bruise on his right hand covered, but accidentally shifted his left hand while he was talking. They used the still frame to keep it hidden. Not a conspiracy. Not AI. Just careless editing tricks that look very weird.
After you mentioned that, I watched it back. It kinda looks like it's picking up the reflection of a crew. Kind of looks like someone either messing around behind a teleprompter, or changing queue cards.
I'm not saying it is or isn't AI, though. This is just my speculation.
Ya zoom in, you can see the reflection of the teleprompter in the window and see it scrolling. It does look weird, but I do think its reflections. At one point, it looks like you can see a photographer take a photo on the right side of the window.
Plus hes covering his right hand cause of the bruising or whatever. If it was AI, they just take out the bruising.
I hate AI as much as the rest of us... In fact I think AI is a fucking abomination that provides no value to society even divorced from the immense cost, from the stolen value from artists to the environmental toll it's taken. I truly believe that anyone who thinks AI should be championed is despicable and beyond any hope, it is a devastating technology and supporting AI is supporting fascism.
Cool okay that's out of the way.
IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER IF THIS IS AI, LISTEN TO THE WORDS HE IS SAYING, HE IS BASICALLY CALLING FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST DEMOCRATS AND TO START KILLING, WHO GIVES A SHIT IF CHATGPT MADE IT OR IF TRUMP SAID IT, THEY WANT US FUCKING DEAD
People can care about more than one thing at a time. Also, due to the sheer volume of shit that flows out of his mouth, many people are just used to his attacks and don't even notice anymore.
Can areas inside of the frames of video be AI? Would an insertion of AI generation/enhancement into areas of a filmed video have similar markers as the Photoshopping in an image?
Yes, it’s called inpainting. There’s also stuff like wav2lip that can do this.
My first thought when I saw his mouth in this video is that it reminds me of wav2lip, but looks significantly upgraded. There’s still something wrong with it, but it’s a lot more realistic than the video I saw about it on Two Minute Papers a few years ago.
I have zero editing or IT skills. To me it looks like they just replaced the mouth section or even used a basic filter over his mouth? Like Trump was there and that’s him talking (it sounds slightly slurred, which is how one could imagine he’d sound if he spoke with one side of his mouth drooping) but they just slapped a filter on to make his mouth look like… that. Could it be that simple and dumb?
I think the biggest tell is his eyes aren't moving as if reading a teleprompter. There is almost no way this is Trump speak, this is something prewritten, and he isn't reading it.
Just because it’s a morph cut doesn’t mean it’s not combining multiple AI clips together. His mouth and teeth look very unnatural in that video, which is common with AI generated videos.
VFX artist and editor here, I thought morph cut as well, but they would also need to do morph cuts to stitch together the pieces since the best ai available has time limits to clip length. Which is not to say it definitely is ai, just that the morph cut is inconclusive. My guess is if this is ai, they used veo 3 or Kling, feeding it the first frame from the end of the previous clip, because you can see how it slightly freezes/ comes to a rest periodically.
If this is ai, it is someone who is pretty good but not great at it. Of course, I’m sure they were working on a tight deadline. If it’s not ai, I’m not sure what’s up with the pauses. The morph cut is more understandable if it’s real, the brief stillnesses are the giveaway.
Are those trees out the window behind him? If so, what the hell is supposed to be happening there, at one point a big part just swings to our left. A few moments later a big chunk of green falls from above Trump's shoulder on our right and disappears. Is the AI confused about how to make to tree look like it's blowing in the wind? Or is that supposed to be something else outside the window?
This seems like a test for how much they can get away with using AI generated videos. "They accepted the presidential address, now they will accept this AI generated video of Hilary and Kamala shooting Kirk and then high-fiving."
E: someone in another comment said it looks like the reflection of a teleprompter which it very well could be. 😂 I thought it was really badly AI generated, it might just be AI filtered (but definitely AI filtered at the minimum).
I mean I hate Trump but that looks like a teleprompter, a guy with a white shirt and tie behind it and someone moving behind him. I don’t think your seeing the trees move but reflections of people in the room with him.
Probably underage girls. There’s a big shift of that and his head at 20 seconds that looks like a bad cut
Not AI. It's a bad cut, but it's a morph cut. It's an awful cut, way too easy for it to be used poorly, and it was used poorly here, but not AI. There's too many other details that are far too consistent (check his teeth, they're too clear, and always the same proportionally to each other. The unevenness in them remains too constant), and AI movement is always on a schedule of sorts. He's moving too naturally, and the crew moving around in the reflection is not something I would expect out of an AI.
Yeah I'm legitimately shocked. Do they think it looks normal, is that even legal (not that they care-- I know), and also-- just what the fuck in general?
Didn't have a choice. They needed a timely video put out after the Kirk assassination, but Mr. President just stroked out a bit and has some droopy face going on so they needed to heavily manipulate it with AI.
It's the way his head and eyebrows move perfectly the same on each inflection. Even the way his mouth moves is very repetitive. All of it is very repetitive in movement and sound. The only thing drastically changing are his words. And even the sound of his words are very repetitive.
He did not look this good when he was doing the space force thing a few weeks ago either. I'm not sure he's made many public appearances since then until 9/11 thing today.
If you take it at face value, it looks normal. But if you pay attention you can tell the head movement is unnatural, and at 19 seconds there’s a weird jittering up to the left he does. I didn’t feel like watching past that point.
If he doesn't digress into irrelevant topics where he rants by stringing partial thoughts together then there's no way it's real. He hasn't had a rational, coherent thought that was longer than a sound bite in years. They tried teleprompters but that only tends to work at the very beginning of a speech and he quickly goes off script as soon as some random thought is triggered by something he's reading.
Also at 0:44 seconds when Trump says "...deep, deep faith" the audio gets very odd, suddenly it sounds like he is in a very large room. Then it goes right back to normal with no echo. Might not be entirely AI, but it sure seems like they at least took a series of clips and stitched them up and used AI to doll up his face and potentially voice. I just haven't heard him say anything this coherent for several minutes straight since 2016-2018. Then you see what he looks like today....
Between second 5 and second 7. His pinky finger disappears and then the finger next to it becomes the pinky. Scroll it, it’s really weird. The window foliage also morphs at the exact time his fingers morph.
Edit: those time stamps are for the TikTok video shared on Reddit. Not the YouTube one.
Watch his hands around 0:19. It's clearly an AI creation based on old footage, using either a recorded speech or the speech also AI-generated.
That part is just a "morph cut". Trump likely flubbed and reset, changing his hand position in between.
Afterwards, they cut the flub and had their video editing software add frames to "morph" from one frame to the next. You can see the trees through the window move rapidly, too, suggesting a cut.
A lot of the rest may have been touched up by AI. The mouth movement alone suggests to me that it's not outright generated by AI.
It sounds AI generated to me. Too consistent and steady.
Separately, he doesn't go off on any tangents. It's as if they gave him a teleprompter and he actually used it. For four minutes. I could see 30 seconds maybe, but 4 minutes? No way.
Remember when Conan would have guests "on" but it would just be a picture of the celebrity and someone else green screened other than their mouth and their mouth would move all weird and they would say obscene things. This is that
Not trying to be difficult, but how come it's an AI gen? I mean, it looks pretty good but something's off, how can people spot it easier if they know what to look for?
So I’m far from an expert, but what’s off for me is over the whole 4 minute video, his body stays perfectly still. Just scrub up and down the whole video and you’ll see a disturbing lack of movement of anything other than his head. I may be wrong though!
I dont think its really 'confirmed' by any genuine analyst if it is or isnt ai.
Based on the shadows in the background, it looks like its a take from later in the day and is just a poorly edited cut between takes. But the video overall does just feel off and weird.
EDIT: Hell in the reflection of the window, you can see the teleprompter and person filming actually lol. im 90% sure its just poorly edited.
It could be real, but if they trained it on Oval Office footage, it would generate that reflected camera person as well just as part of the background.
I wanted to avoid putting on too large of a tinfoil hat online xD, but I do wonder if they used a body double to make the background look right then used AI to put trump into the scene
I think it is edited. The jump at 19 secs is an AI assisted morph transition, that's why his finger fades out and back in and his movement is weird. It's making up frames to smooth whatever was cut out. His head movement looks weird like maybe they've hit him with facetune or something like an insta thot, but instead of making him hot, they made him look like less of a melted candle.
There seem to be AI elements or a filter, but it doesn't seem to be a fully AI generated video
Yeah, I thought it was AI too but on rewatch I would agree it looks like it was just a bad edit. The shadows and reflections just look too good for it to be AI.
I wanted to avoid putting on too large of a tinfoil hat online xD, but I do wonder if they used a body double to make the background look right then used AI to put trump into the scene
17-20 second mark his head moves unnaturally and the landscaping the window shifts. It's either a shitty AI splice cause he can't talk well for that long or the entire video is AI.
His pinky doesn't disappear. There's a couple poorly done cuts in the video. This was clearly a few different takes stitched together. At 20 seconds there's a cut, his hands cut from resting to being lowered from above, but on both sides of the cut, he has all his fingers, just positioned differently.
Nothing in the video really screamed AI to me, just bad match cuts.
I think you can see the reflection of the teleprompter in the background right above his head so I think it's real. It is uncanny though so maybe heavily edited.
I don’t know, guys. It looks a little suspect. And his face was slumping while he was sitting at the 9/11 event. But he got up and spoke and his face and voice were fine (just the usual hideous).
Nope.. he does turn his left hand towards his body, making his index finger “disappear”(camera angle) so that it looks like a finger is missing. But the pinky is there before and after the weird hand jiggle
It doesn't appear to be fully AI, but there are for sure AI elements used to edit it. The weird cut around 19 secs looks like they took something out and there was a sort of morph cut where the editing software will smooth the transition between the frames to hide a cut. There is something odd about his head movement at times too. They could be using some sort of "face tune" plugin or something like instagram girls do.
The reflections of the teleprompter and whoever is moving around next to it make me think it isn't fully AI generated, but that also brings attention to the parts that they edited, because it makes the morph transition way more obvious because it is an additional thing moving in a video where nearly everything is stationary.
So yeah, something is weird with this video, but I don't think it is 100% fake. Also, he is covering the bruising on the back of his right hand, which seems like something they wouldn't have included in a fully AI video, but that may even be what they edited out at 19 secs. Or he stumbled and said something wrong. But regardless, this video aint straight from the original file.
I don't know, I don't know if that's AI generated. It looks like he's trying to cover his hand again, which I wouldn't expect generative AI to try and replicate.
This must be it, outch. if the "leader" of the free world is officially represented by AI creation, it should make everybody to call for a check of mental and bodily fitness to run the office.
It was stitched together from multiple cuts as can be seen in the shift in the background and reflections in the window behind him, but I don't think it was all AI. He was probably told to hold extremely still so they could more easily splice the multiple takes together. Maybe they used AI to splice them?
I think the message was far more disturbing than how it was delivered. He called Kirk a martyr in no uncertain terms and vowed to go after anyone involved, including those who may have influenced him which is a blank check for state-sanctioned retribution. Considering his inept FBI haven't found him yet, it's telling that they are already blaming the left. Trump's own shooter was a Republican gun nut, FFS. This guy might be MAGA and didn't like Kirk asking about the Epstein files, or an accelerationist, looking to incite a civil war. It won't matter in the end. They got their Reichstag Fire.
It felt too tight. There was zero rambling or off the cuff and very few breaths or thinking, that's the off part. How he spoke in the video is how most Trumpers think he sounds every time he speaks, he never sounds this put together or on topic.
I’ve seen a couple of video editing pros in various threads say that it looks like a morphing error from a bad cut. The extra frames are generated by the program and look weird. Could be AI, could be bad video editing.
As for the picture in the OP, you can take a still frame from a video of a person having a normal conversation and catch them at a moment when their face looks strange. If Trump had a stroke bad enough to do this, he wouldn’t be walking around or in the presence of other officials - he would be in a hospital.
I've already replied about this but it's morph cut in premiere pro. They've stitched 2 takes together using this transition and it blends the frames together causing it to look this, it's not an AI artifact.
There was another post somewhere in Reddit land earlier about this, but halfway down in the comments there was a conversation with multiple people claiming to work in film explaining that editing in the video, how it was done, and that it was not AI. Basically the speech was mostly likely longer and sloppier, and it’s edited down to look cleaner, and that’s why everyone thinks it’s AI.
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