In February 2025, messages appeared on the Web about attackers who allegedly gained access to the verified account of the US president and placed there a picture there, in which the politician was captured without clothing. We checked the authenticity of this story.
Publications on breaking the profile of the American president on the social network X dispersed on February 4. For example, Telegram channel "Live broadcast”(700,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) told about this:“ Naked Trump appeared on Twitter. Hackers hacked his account and replaced the picture in his post from 2011. " According to the TGSTAT service, similar Russian -speaking posts about "Nyuds" The US president gained several million views in Telegram. Among the most popular are channel records "Technoker"(272 000),"KB+"(263 000),"Zlaya Pruf"(212 000),"Medica"(192 000), 4ch (182 000), "Today is in trend"(162 000),"Truthfulness"(153 000), Shtoll News (137 000), "Barrel of black caviar"(134,000),"Banks, money, two offshores"(111 000) and 1337 (106,000). There are such posts on VKontakte (examples here And here).
Some resources, however, clarified that, most likely, it is only a change in the link to a third -party resource, which Trump shared more than ten years ago, and the reliability of the viral photograph was not confirmed. Among them - BAZA (491,000 views) and "Ribbon"(152,000), where they added:" Trump in a photo, someone like him or is it a photoshop generally is unknown. " This did not prevent some Russian media from releasing materials with headlines like “Donald Trump published his naked photo” (“Gazeta.ru") Or" Unknown people hacked the Trump profile in X and published his naked photo there "(Life.ru).
All the above -mentioned posts and notes say about tweetPublished in the official Trump account on the social network X April 15, 2011 (then the platform was called Twitter). The billionaire wrote that day: “My thoughts about @hannityshow (television show of the leading Sean Hanniti. - Approx. Ed.) And my speech on”Tea party"(A rally against the fiscal policy of the White House.-Approx. Ed.) This weekend ..." The link was also given in the post: http://bit.ly/gnmeel.
At the time of writing this analysis, there is no photograph in tweet, but recently there you could really see a picture with a naked person who is like a tile, whom someone sprayed with a spray gun. This is confirmed many Archival copies of the post made from February 3 to 4, 2025.
Hacking X
In most publications about the alleged hacking of Trump's page in X, it is stated that hackers replaced the photo in the old post of the US president. However, if the attackers actually gained access to the policy of a politician with a multimillion -dollar audience, then why did not leave new tweets, which would be a much more effective and noticeable action? And as if in this case, they edited the post of almost 14 years ago if the platform of this does not allow?
In fact, Trump's page page was not talking about any full hacking. How explained Techno -journalist of the Mashable publication Matt Bindder, unknown only took advantage of the vulnerability of the service to reduce links Bitly. According to him, crypto-mesh were able to intercept several short URL addresses and connect them with their own links. Those, in turn, sent users to the crypto platform site pump.fun (this address is visible in the lower part of the viral screenshot), where it was possible to purchase recently created tokens (in this case Trump’s Meat, which You can translate Like Trump's sausage). At the preview of one of these links, a photo of the “Naked Trump” was contained. At the same time, Bender showed other supposedly hacked tweets of the current president of the United States and his wife in 2013. So, on your Two Trump I called readers subscribe to him on Instagram*, and his wife Melania advertised A collection of jewelry. In both cases, they took advantage of the short URL addresses from Bitly-in 2025, this led to the fact that links to the Pump.Fun platform appeared in their posts. According to the archive Copies, in such a changed form, tweets have existed since the end of January 2025.
Bender also spoke about what, in his opinion, the vulnerability of Bitly is. When the user creates a short link using the service, it starts with bit.ly/, and then there is either a random or/or letters specifically specified by the author (if a certain set is already used, the platform will inform the user that the address is busy). The journalist suggested that in Bitly there was an error that allowed the use of previously set addresses if the initial link or account that created the link was deleted or deactivated.
According to the archive Copies Tvita Trump for April 15, 2011, initially he referred to a certain video on his YouTube channel. "Checked" found similar in meaning fast For the same date on his page on Facebook-there the future president of the United States shared a 33-second video (already Inaccessiblebut there is archival copy), where he said that he had visited the Hanniti show and will come up with the next weekend speech At a public event.
BITLY Service January 30 ReportedWhat knows about the error that attackers use to redirect old, inactive links to crypto platforms, and is working on its correction. Separately, it was clarified that the security service actively removes all the accounts that abuse the rules, and that the company is not related to any cryptocurrency projects. Later on the same day it became It is knownthat the developers corrected the code, thereby eliminating the vulnerability. The story of the “hacked” Twites Trump ended when the service blocked the addresses of scammers. Now when trying to cross them Appears Error notification: "This link or QR code is deactivated."
Photo XXX
As for the viral picture, in which Trump is allegedly captured naked, its authenticity back in 2020 Checked Reuters agency. Five years ago network users ApprovedWhat shows how a carfare is applied on a stripped politician using a spray gun. In some posts, it was clarified that the image of Anonymous moved the image.
Journalists found out that this photo is an art project of a British artist Alison Jackson. According to her site, she explores the cult of celebrities - "an extraordinary phenomenon created by the media, advertising industry and famous people themselves." “Jackson raises questions about how we can no longer say what is real and what is not, and how it does not care at all. She creates convincingly realistic photographs, films and sculptures depicting the celebrities engaged in their personal affairs (images that we all represented, but never saw before), using skillfully stylized doubles, ” - It is said On the site of the artist.
In the Jackson photo gallery there is a section "Mental photos", Where staged pictures with doubles of politicians, actors, athletes, singers and other celebrities, including members of the British royal family, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, Marilyn Monroe, David Bekham and Kim Kardashian. In some photos, people are represented without clothes.
The current president of the United States is the hero of many works by Jackson, but in her original photo, subsequently dispersed on the network, a disclaimer was indicated in the lower right corner: "This is not Donald Trump." Reuters separately clarified that in some viral publications with an incorrect signature in the picture the genitals are noticeable, which are not visible in the artist’s gallery, and it is unclear whether they were later added by users of social networks using the photo editor.
In a conversation with Reuters, Jackson said that the photo is designed to intervene in Trump’s personal life and playing that the audience could not resist and want to look at the private life of other people. “This is like a visual gossip ... Our voyeurism is driven by the very nature of the photograph. She seduces, forcing to believe in her authenticity, although we know that this is not true, ”the artist added.
The picture was taken in 2016. Backstage video From the photo shoot, including the conversation with the model, was published on the Jackson YouTube channel in November of the same year. In the video, the artist says that about 300 people tried for the role of Trump and the choice fell on “a teacher, musician and a very ordinary guy from the Midwest [USA]”. Other photos from this series can be viewed in material Vanity Fair.
Thus, the hackers did not hack Trump's page in X and did not upload his naked photo. In fact, the scammers took advantage of the error on a third-party service to create short URL addresses and redirected links from old posts Policy to the Cryptopolate Site. Moreover, the picture depicts not Trump, but his double, posing for the photo project of the British artist.
*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, is prohibited by an extremist organization, its activities and symbolism in Russia.
Photo on the cover: social networks / Alisonjackson.com
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