Did a widely-shared video authentically show President Donald Trump speaking in praise of Pakistan's Air Force, and claiming India had "humiliated itself", in the context of May 2025 clashes between the two countries? No, that's not true: The video contained fake audio of Trump's voice making remarks he never did, in reality. The fake voice and conspicuously fake mouth movements suggested AI had been used to create the overall video.
The video was presented as real in a May 11, 2025, post on TikTok (archived here), which can be viewed below:
@gvn.news#china#pakistan#usa#indian#war#fight#GVN#TikTokNews#DailyNews#TrendingNow♬ original sound - gvn.news
The transcript of the remarks read out in a fake Trump voice was as follows:
Pakistan's Air Force earns global praise with stunning success. Pakistan's Air Force showed incredible patience and restraint. For two full days they held back, stayed strong, and then when the time came they struck back. They took revenge and India was left screaming. They never expected this and it's a huge embarrassment for them.
Pakistan shot down India's jet and captured an Indian pilot. India's Rafale jets, bought from France, were made a mockery of. Even France's company is embarrassed now. India has humiliated itself and its allies now on the global stage.
In reality, Trump never uttered those words, and the audio was fake, likely the product of generative AI.
We searched for the words "Trump" and "Pakistan" together with "incredible patience and restraint" on the White House website, but found no entries. Similarly, we looked for the video, or a transcript of the remarks, on Trump's TruthSocial and X accounts, and found no results.
If Trump had issued such a one-sided appraisal of the conflict, it would undoubtedly have formed the basis of widespread news coverage throughout the world. However, we found no trace of the words "Trump", "Pakistan" and "incredible patience and restraint" on Google News.
Sections of the video contained conspicuously fake mouth movements on the part of Trump, suggesting AI was used to modify the video, as well as the audio. Indeed, the underlying video footage of Trump appears to have been taken from a September 16, 2020, press conference at the White House. In the comparison below, the fake image is shown in bottom left corner of the original:
(Source: Lead Stories composite of screenshots from TikTok and YouTube)
