AI-generated video of Donald Trump shared with false claim of derogatory remarks about India
New Delhi (PTI Fact Check): A video recently circulated on social media, with some users claiming it showed US President Donald Trump making nasty comments about Indians.
In a one-minute and 47-second video shared by the users, President Trump first discussed an executive order banning the hiring of Indian customer service representatives in the US. He was then allegedly heard saying that "Indians should get jobs to clean up trash in their country." "This is in every square mile of India, and they don't care. They even dump loads of plastic and trash into their rivers," he added.
However, the PTI Fact Check Desk found the claim false in its investigation. The video was originally taken from a YouTube channel that posts conservative political satire content. Regarding the viral video, the channel stated that it contains a voice-over by a Trump impersonator and that AI was used to alter the visuals.
Claim
An X (formerly Twitter) user shared a video on February 22 purportedly showing US President Donald Trump making nasty comments about Indians. In the one-minute and 47-second video, President Trump first spoke about an executive order calling for a ban on hiring Indian customer service representatives in the US.
As the video progressed, he was also allegedly heard saying, "Indians should get jobs to clean up trash in their country." "This is in every square mile of India, and they don't care. They even dump loads of plastic and trash into their rivers," he added.
Here is the link and archive link to the post, along with a screenshot:
Investigation
The Desk ran the viral video through the InVid tool and extracted multiple keyframes. Upon running one of the keyframes through Google Lens, the Desk found several other users had shared the same video with similar claims.
Two such posts can be found here and here, along with their archived versions viewed here and here:
As the Desk carefully examined the viral video of President Trump announcing the executive order, it found multiple discrepancies suggesting the video was a satirical version. While scanning through the video, the Desk noticed it was shared under the banner of 'Faux News'—which reportedly is a satirical play on words of the US-based news channel Fox News. Additionally, the Desk found the text mentioned, 'Sobering Satire,' just above the ticker.
Below is a screenshot highlighting the same:
As the Desk held a customised keyword search for the word 'Sobering Satire,' it discovered a YouTube channel with the same name. The channel description states it focuses on political satire:
"Sobering Satire – Part Comedy, part Commentary, all Conservative. A group of veteran talent goes OFF-Script to produce unique satire, audio & video for Conservatives and American Patriots."
Here is the link to the channel, along with a screenshot:
As the Desk continued its investigation, it scanned the YouTube channel and found the same video from the viral post, published by the channel on January 25, 2025. The video description explicitly labelled it as satire:
"Trump Impression & Performance by Clive. A.I. did NOT Write, Speak, or Perform this video. It only masked Clive's face/performance."
Here is the link to the video, along with a screenshot:
Below is a comparison image highlighting that the video seen in the viral post matches the one shared by the YouTube channel in January 2025:
The Desk also mentioned a website (www.michaelclive.com) in the video's description, corresponding to the term Clive, credited above for Trump's voice impression.
Upon scanning the website, the Desk found it linked to Michael Clive, a voice actor and comedian credited with impersonating President Trump's voice multiple times. Several other videos on his website also featured him impersonating Trump.
Although the Desk could not independently verify whether the audio in the viral video was directly linked to Michael Clive, the details published on the YouTube channel strongly suggest this connection. The satirical video digitally altered the visuals and included a fake voice-over.
In the subsequent part of the investigation, to verify whether the visuals of Trump in the viral video had been digitally altered, the Desk ran keyframes through Google Lens. It found the original footage used in the satirical video was shared by Hindustan Times earlier last month. The original event occurred during a press conference held by Trump at a dinner for GOP governors at Mar-a-Lago. During this press conference, Trump did not mention Indians or discuss any executive order related to a "new customer service bill."
Here is the link to the video by Hindustan Times that matches the visuals from the viral post:
Subsequently, the Desk concluded that the viral video originated from a satirical YouTube channel, Sobering Satire, which specialises in conservative political satire. The video explicitly states that it contains a voice-over by a Trump impersonator and that AI was used to alter the visuals digitally.
CLAIM
US President Donald Trump made derogatory remarks about India.
FACT
A YouTube channel originally posted the video for creating conservative political satire. It features a voice-over by a Trump impersonator, and AI technology was used to digitally alter the visuals with the fake voice-over. Further, the original footage was taken from a legitimate press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump made no such remarks.
CONCLUSION
Multiple social media users recently shared a video claiming it showed US President Donald Trump making nasty comments about India. However, the Desk, in its investigation, found the video was originally posted by a YouTube channel known for creating conservative political satire. The video features a voice-over by a Trump impersonator, and AI technology was used to digitally alter the visuals with the fake voice-over. Further, the original footage was taken from a legitimate press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where Trump made no such remarks.
(This story was originally published by PTI, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
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Oath-taking ceremony of first BJP govt in Bengal on May 9; Modi, Shah likely to attend
Kolkata (PTI): The oath-taking ceremony of the first BJP government in West Bengal will be held at Brigade Parade Ground here on May 9, marking the saffron camp’s arrival in power in a state after decades on the political fringes.
The ceremony, scheduled to begin at 10 am, is expected to witness the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP president Nitin Nabin, several Union ministers and chief ministers of BJP- and NDA-ruled states, party sources said.
“The new BJP government will take oath on May 9 at 10 am at Brigade Parade Ground,” state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya announced on Wednesday.
Even as the BJP leadership kept its cards close to the chest on the chief ministerial face, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has emerged as a frontrunner in internal discussions after cementing his position as the party’s principal mass leader in Bengal politics.
Adhikari, once among Mamata Banerjee’s closest lieutenants and a key architect of the TMC’s rural expansion in districts such as Purba Medinipur, crossed over to the BJP ahead of the 2021 assembly elections and went on to defeat Banerjee in Nandigram in one of Bengal’s fiercest political battles.
Five years later, he again found himself at the centre of Bengal’s political churn by beating Banerjee in her own turf at Bhabanipur by over 15,000 votes.
Other names for the CM post doing the rounds include Bhattacharya, Union minister Sukanta Majumdar and former Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, though party insiders indicated that the leadership was inclined towards projecting a “bhumiputra” face rooted in Bengal’s linguistic and cultural ethos.
During the campaign, Shah repeatedly asserted that the BJP’s chief minister in Bengal would be a “son of the soil”, born and educated in the state, in an attempt to blunt the TMC’s sustained attack that the BJP represented an “outsider” political culture alien to Bengal’s social and intellectual traditions.
The BJP bagged 207 of the 294 assembly seats in the recently concluded elections, ending the Trinamool Congress’s uninterrupted 15-year rule and scripting the saffron party’s biggest breakthrough in a state where it once struggled to open its electoral account.
Significantly, the swearing-in ceremony will be held on the 25th day of Baisakh in the Bengali calendar — observed across the state as Rabindra Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore — lending the event a deeper cultural symbolism.
According to BJP leaders, the choice of the date is aimed at embedding the party’s historic rise within Bengal’s cultural imagination and countering the long-standing perception battle over identity and belonging.
Over the last decade, the BJP has steadily attempted to appropriate and reinterpret icons of Bengal’s cultural nationalism — from Tagore and Swami Vivekananda to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Syama Prasad Mookerjee — as part of a broader ideological effort to expand its emotional and political footprint in the state.
Party insiders said the leadership was also conscious of the need to balance Bengal’s competing regional aspirations while choosing the chief ministerial face, with discussions also taking place around whether greater representation should be accorded to north Bengal, a region where the BJP has made substantial electoral gains over successive elections.
A meeting of the newly elected BJP MLAs has been convened on May 8 evening, party sources said, though the leadership remained tight-lipped over the final choice.
The Brigade Parade Ground ceremony is expected to mark not merely a transfer of power, but a defining moment in Bengal’s political history, the culmination of the BJP’s long ideological and organisational march from the margins to the centre of power in a state that had for decades resisted the saffron surge seen elsewhere in India.
