In January 2025, the news spread in Runet that, according to the son of the US president, the Ukrainian leader three times asked to invite him to the inauguration of Trump, but each time he was refused. We checked the authenticity of such publications.
On January 18, Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels appeared that the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky repeatedly requested an invitation to the inauguration of the 47th US President Donald Trump, but did not receive the expected answer. As the primary source of this news, Storiz, allegedly published by the son of the chosen American leader, Donald Trump, is usually indicated. It is alleged that he not only publicized this story, but also called Zelensky an eccentric, because, despite the refusal, he began to "behave as if he himself decided not to go."
News with reference to Trump Jr. was published "RIA Novosti","Tsargrad","BelTA" And Eadailyas well as Telegram channels "Sanya in Florida"(528,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Legitimate"(383,000),"Zlaya Prof"(294 000),"Two major"(285 000),"Zerada"(281 000),"Solovyov"(268 000) and others"Arguments and facts","News" And Lenta.ru It is argued that the other son of the American president, Barron, told Zelensky to invite Zelensky to the inauguration of Trump. In turn, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in her Telegram channel reported About three times received refusal, without calling the source of information at all. Her post scored more than 440,000 views.
Donald Trump for the second time Entered Over the post of US President on January 20, 2025 in Washington. For the first time in 40 years, the ceremony was not in the open air, in the rotunda of the Capitol (as Explained The politician himself, due to the expected extremely cold weather). In its inaugural speech Trump He did not mention Directly Russian invasion of Ukraine, although during the election campaign He promised In case of election, stop the war in 24 hours. At the same time, the US president noted: “We will measure our success not only by the battles that we will win, but also by the wars that we will end, and, most importantly, wars that we never enter into.” The next day Trump saidthat Putin destroys Russia, not wanting to conclude a deal to stop fire in Ukraine.
Another feature of the inauguration, which in the United States is considered exclusively a domestic political event, was the invitation of foreign leaders - as Notes PBS, this happened for the first time in history. In particular, solemn events Visit Italian Prime Minister George Melony and Argentina President Javier Miley. Also among others for the ceremony were invited The leaders of several right -wing and right -Polypulist European parties and the chairman of China Xi Jinping (instead of the Chinese leader, his deputy came to Washington). Russian President Vladimir Putin, by words His press secretary Dmitry Peskov, did not receive an invitation.
As for Zelensky, on December 16, 2024 Trump declared: If the Ukrainian leader wants to attend the ceremony, he will be glad to see him. However, the President of Ukraine did not go to Washington on the day of the inauguration - he Accept In Kyiv, a delegation from Lithuania, and then He went To the Economic Forum in the Swiss Davos. In an interview with the journalist Pierce Morgan, published On February 4, Zelensky said that Trump in very general terms invited him to his inauguration, but he considered the trip not very appropriate, since the American politician would not have time for a personal meeting.
At the same time, “verified” did not discover the statements of Trump himself or members of his team about the possible participation of Zelensky in the inauguration made after the words of the politician itself of December 16. Considering that this topic was interested in many journalists who asked the relevant questions to the US President, it is strange that Public Trump never stated the requests of the Ukrainian leader and that he rejected them.
As already noted above, the resources that distributed the news we consider referred to two different sons of the American president. Some called the 18-year-old Barron, the only common child Trump and his current wife Melania as a source of information. From the accounts in social networks, the young man has only one - verified profile in X, registered back in 2012. Although almost 50,000 people are signed for it, there is not a single tweet on the page. Apparently, the Barron account started his mother - in 2014-2015, Melania Trump more than 30 times tagal This profile, publishing photos of a son or congratulating him on the holidays. The version of most other media is more realistic: 47-year-old Donald Trump-the youngest, the son of the US president from his first marriage, actively expresses in support of his father’s policy and has repeatedly criticized the authorities of Ukraine. For example, he declaredthat fires in Los Angeles in January could not put out due to the transfer of the necessary equipment to Kyiv, called Ukraine is a corrupt country and Loaded mocking memes with Zelensky.
Some media and Telegram channels not only refer to Donald Trump-the youngest, but also indicate that he told Zelensky to invite Zelensky to the Storyz on Instagram. As evidence, two slightly different screenshots are given. Judging by the image, Trump Jr. supposedly reposted the publication of the American publication Newsweek, consisting of a portrait of Vladimir Zelensky and quote: “I can’t. I cannot, especially in the conditions of the war, come until President Trump will invite me personally. I’m not sure that it is decent to come, because, as I know, in general, [foreign] leaders, for some reason, are usually not invited to the inauguration of the US president. ” The author of Storiz himself commented on these words as follows: “The funniest thing is that he unofficially asked for invitations, or, or each time he received a refusal. Now he behaves as if he decided not to go. What a eccentric. "
Two screenshots are almost identical. One of them shows that the story was published 22 hours before it was seen by the user who took a picture of the screen. The image of poor quality, and the background on which the nickname of the account and the time of publication is located differs from the rest. This may indicate that the basis for the image was the story of another user, which was applied by the username and photo of Trump Jr. profile. In another screenshot, the time of publication is additionally smeared - apparently, this is only an edited version of the first. It also trimmed on it, the elements characteristic of such screenshots, for example, a line for sending a comment and the likes symbol at the bottom of the screen, and on both the time, the level of charge of the phone battery and the Internet connection indicator in the upper part of the screen. Note that on Instagram on Donald Trump - the younger Signed 8.7 million users, therefore it is extremely unlikely that the son of the US President was able to record such a resonant statement only once (it was not found “verified” other screenshots).
The quote given in the lower part of the screenshot (adjusted for the translation) really belongs to Zelensky. He made a very similar statement in Ukrainian Podokasta Lex Friedman on January 5, 2025, when the presenter asked the politician if he wanted to visit Trump's inauguration. The next day Newsweek Published A note on this interview, where the same translation of the phrase into English was given as in the screenshot. However, in verified account There are no publications on Instagram with this statement.
However, there is every reason to believe that the screenshot Storiz Trump Jr. was falsified. Firstly, the release of Friedman's podcast with Zelensky was released on January 5, and the son of the US president, according to the virus image, reacted to the statement of the Ukrainian president almost two weeks later. Secondly, although Storiz on Instagram become inaccessible to other users a day after publication, in the case of Trump Jr., even such short-lived posts often manage to get into the focus of the attention of large media. For example, in the fall, he shared the story post Ex-candidates in the US vice presidents from the Republican Party of Sarah Palein, in which the video with Zelensky was accompanied by a comment: “POV (Point of View,“ Personal Opinion ”, Eng.-Approx. Ed.): after 38 days you will lose your allowance.” Then they wrote about it The Telegraph, Politico, Newsweek etc. Thirdly, although Trump's eldest son leaves political comments on Instagram, he mainly still uses his more popular (14.2 million subscribers) Account in social network X. Some publications He duplicates from there on other platforms. But there are no posts about the unofficial requests of Zelensky to invite him to the inauguration on the Trump-Jr. page.
Finally, the chronology of the spread of the screenshot, which was mainly on Russian-speaking media and Telegram channels, is indicative. The earliest publication that contains this image and which managed to find "verified", was placed January 17 at 17:23 Moscow time in the Telegram channel "Gagauz Republic" (9100 views). There, a falsified screenshot is given completely. However, the news began to be widely spread in Runet, which only contributed to, for example, publication In the Telegram channel “Poole N3” (101,000 views), which appeared that day shortly before noon. There, the screenshot first appeared with the smeared time of publication, after which this version of the picture became viral. Both These The channel was repeatedly appeared in the analysis of “verified” as distributors of inaccurate information. In the interval, January 18, the screenshot began to diverge along the English -language segment X, some publications More than 1 million views were gained. After this Newsweek, whose logo is used in the screenshot, Refutedthat he ever published such a post with a portrait of Zelensky and his quote from Friedman's podcast.
Thus, there is no evidence that Donald Trump - the youngest published Storiz (or spoke in other sources) about the repeated requests of Vladimir Zelensky to invite him to the inauguration of the US president. The distribution of news began with pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and contains numerous signs of falsification.
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