At the end of February 2025, the news about the statement that the son of the US president allegedly made widely dispersed on the network. In his opinion, Washington had to choose Moscow as an ally, not Kyiv. We checked the authenticity of such publications.
The 36-second video with a sunbeam, which is claimed, belongs to Donald Trump-the youngest, became viral on February 26. The video is a record of the screen played by Triggageed Podcast, and Trump Jr. allegedly states that the United States should supply Russia's weapons, because no one will choose Ukraine as an ally, when a powerful nuclear power, rich in natural resources that everyone needs on the other.
Quote from Trump Jr. or video itself posted Telegram channels Anatoly Shariy (916,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), "Tsargrad"(352 000),"Dmitry Nicotin"(326 000),"Zerada"(270 000),"Konstantin Malofeev"(274 000),"KB"(238,000),"NE.SAHAR"(222 000), Reverse Side of the Medal (205,000), "Uncle Glory"(180 000) and others.
Donald Trump - the youngest - American entrepreneur, political activist and eldest son of US President Donald Trump. He leads Triggered podcast, which illuminates and comments on political and other news mainly from a right -conserving point of view. Podcast is available on popular streaming platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Rumble). According to Russian-speaking Telegram channels, Trump Jr. said in one of the recent issues:
“I can’t imagine at all that someone in his right mind chose Ukraine as an ally, if Russia is more than the scales of Russia. Think for yourself - a powerful nuclear power, rich in natural resources that everyone needs, literally the largest state on the planet. And on the other hand - Ukrainian, where there is Chernobyl and dogs resistant to radiation. At the same time, the Biden administration is this: "Yes, this is an ally what you need! Let's invest in them all our money!" The United States had to supply Russia's weapons, for that matter. ".
Some bloggers are limited only to the quote itself, but many attach a video to it with a statement by Trump Jr. One They applied recording his voice on his portrait, others Published Write the computer screen when listening to Triggered (this option has spread wider). The interface design resembles Spotify striming, and in the lower right side of the screen it is indicated that this is issue No. 219, published on February 25. Timesline shows that Trump Jr. makes his statement around the middle of the podcast, and this happens after the words of an unknown interlocutor.
At the time of writing this analysis, the 219th release of Triggered podcast called FBI Dream Team, Plus Taking Your Questions Live! (“The FBI dream team, as well as the answers to your questions on the air”) was not available on Spotify. However, he Layd In the video format on the Rumble platform. For the entire clock, Trump Jr. He mentioned Ukraine is only once at the mark at 37:17, answering the subscriber’s question. The son of the US president said that he would be glad to see in Ukraine a structure similar to the Department of Efficiency of State Administration (DOGE), led by billionaire Ilon Mask, to understand how Kyiv spends money. Trump Jr. does not mention Russia in this issue at all, as well as the fact that it should be an ally of the United States instead of Ukraine. Although in the viral video the son of the American president has a certain interlocutor, in the original he leads podcast alone.
The speech of Trump Jr. on the recording that has dispersed along social networks sounds monotonously, in some places unnatural intonations are heard and there are no recordings. Analysis of the audio file, spent The chief researcher of Getreal Hani Farid using their technology for detecting dipfaces showed that the clip was highly likely generated by artificial intelligence.
“Verified” also analyzed the audio track from the viral recording using the Hive AI detector. Based on the results with a probability of 99.9%, a speech generated by a computer sounded in the video, and not the voice of a real person.
A fake video with the voice of Trump Jr. was widely dispersed through the English-language segment of the social network X, some publications We scored tens of thousands of views. Among others, he was published by several quite popular accounts related to the US Democratic Party, for example, a profile Factpostnewswhich the Democratic created to combat misinformation (Now the post is deleted). When the video became viral, the official representative of Trump Jr. Andrew Surabian wrote In X: "Record is 100% fake created using AI." This information confirmed and executive producer Triggered Drew Lynch.
The audio recording with the generated voice of Trump Jr. began to spread in X late in the evening of February 26. At the same time, the first publication that contains a viral video and which was discovered "verified", was placed In the Telegram channel "Military Observer" on February 26 at 17:53 Moscow time. This channel is repeatedly mentioned In the analysis of “tested” as a distributor, and sometimes the source of misinformation.
Soon, the information dispersed through other pro-Kmorelev Telegram channels and the media. The fake quote from Trump Jr. was published by dozens of large Russian publications: ""Komsomolskaya Truth","Moscow Komsomolets","Arguments and facts","Reginum" Lenta.ru And others. After the post of Surabian in the X, these media outlets issued a refutation, but this did not stop Telegram channels-there the video continued to spread.
Thus, Trump Jr. did not declare in his podcast that Russia was supposed to be an ally of the United States instead of Ukraine. As evidence, a fake audio recording created using AI was used.
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