WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a video circulating online that showed items being tossed out of an upstairs window of the White House was created with artificial intelligence, despite his press team seeming to confirm the veracity of it hours earlier.
Trump, who has boasted of being an expert in building design as he takes on remodeling projects at the White Houseand beyond, told reporters that the video has “got to be fake” because the windows, he said, are heavy and sealed shut.
The video, which circulated Monday, appears to show a small black bag and a long white item being tossed out of a window on the building’s east side.
Trump blamed the video on AI, saying the creation of fake videos was one of the downsides of the technology, but then said, “If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame AI.”
Hours earlier, the White House seemed to verify that the video was real when it told several news outlets that inquired about the video that it was “a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone.”
The White House did not respond to a message later Tuesday about the discrepancy.
JFC, people just completely ignoring the most simple answer:
Trump had no idea renovations were happening and had not seen the video so made a knee-jerk statement that it must be AI based on his lack of knowledge and his assumption that the windows couldn’t be opened normally (renovations are not a normal scenario).
That’s it.
Theres no coverup. There’s no conspiracy. Just a confused old man getting defensive about something he had no idea was happening.
Or he has contractors in there without getting clearance because it’s slow, and he does what he wants and then lies about it like a toddler.
Its wierd to me he would jump to ai for something relatively innocuous unless he was having an episode and was the one doing it. Which, lets facce it, only the president could get away with doing crazy shit in the white house.
I think it’s possible that the only thing he gets coached on in those situations is to just blame AI
It’s not impossible that the frantic AI push is in part to give rich and powerful people this out for their own bad actions.
An extra layer of plausible deniability won’t make me forget that the rich are tasty and in season
This looks like AI. The second object straight up disappears as it leaves the window.
Here we go.
Police britality against protestors is “AI”, russian invasion of Ukraine is “AI”, a video of trump telling his people to attack the capitol in 2021 is “AI”, Tiananmen Square Massacre is “AI”.
Truth is over, you can shoot someone on 5th avenue in broad daylight, and say any video of the murder to be “AI”.
Welcome to the new era! Truth are lies and lies are truth.
This is why its a net negative. Nothing good at all will come of it and if it does it will be negated by a far more nefarious evil.
So AI is just photoshop with less steps?
With less skill and effort needed.
The time to results ratio is quite exceptional, I hate to admit
He shit everywhere and since worker was like ah hell na and threw it out as the quickest way to get rid of the horrendous stench
I saw all these on Colbert and the order they told events including the part about people wondering if Trump died had me going “How do we know this video of Trump saying the bag video is AI isnt AI itself, and he actually is dead?”
I hate to get all conspiracy theory, but the guy knew that a Congressional hearing on the Epstein Files was happening. He is a skilled manipulator. So what does he do to suck all the air out of DC? Nothing. He takes a few days off, his social media goons see the “is he dead?” stuff on X - I’m not even sure that they didn’t push it - and then anything he did at any point would be the lead news. So he trots out a super-size nothingburger and the media can. not. get. enough.
Did that hearing make the “Breaking!” Fox News chiron? Nope. Totally drown out by this guy.
White House officials claim it was a contractor doing work while Trump was out. Supposedly contractors are not allowed in the White House. Not sure what’s going on but I am sure we will never get answers until Trump is long gone or dead.
Not sure what’s going on but I am sure we will never get answers until Trump is long gone or dead.
Well, you can be sure it wasn’t Trump going through the effort of throwing something.
This is the beginning of the Great Rubbish Defenestration Scandal that will finally bring this administration to its knees.
It’s always something you’d never guess.
Is this the first time a major politician has claimed something to be AI in order to deflect criticism?
“I believe it’s pronounced A1”
Sure. Someone spent time and resources to create an AI video of an unidentifiable person throwing unidentifiable objects out a window. For some reason. That seems like a perfectly logical conclusion.
Yeah, especially when the alternative explanation is that a habitual liar is lying again.
He doesnt even take the effort to lie, just says whatever he thinks works for him best at the time. It seems like a reflex at this point
Lies lies lies. I personally don’t care if they’re throwing out his shit stained sheets but he’s a fucking liar. Everything he said is a lie and then accuses the media of making fake news. Yeah let’s create a fake story of a trash bag going out the window.
‘We where having issues with our maintenance and decoded it would be easier to just have the trash tossed out the window that day’ is what I would have said.
How else is he going to sneak out the files for Papa Putin?
Trump blamed the video on AI, saying the creation of fake videos was one of the downsides of the technology, but then said, “If something happens that’s really bad, maybe I’ll have to just blame AI.”
lmao?
