In early March 2025, a video scattered over the network, in which the US president spoke unflattering about the outfit of his Ukrainian colleague, emphasizing the alleged cheapness of his clothes. We decided to check if Trump really said.
In the video, which lasts almost a minute, US President Donald Trump tells how it was outraged by the visit of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and especially chosen outfit: “Zelensky appeared in the White House in a dress from Temu (Chinese marketplace with cheap goods. - approx. Ed.). And I considered it very disrespectful, to be honest. From this moment I will begin to call him Temu Zelensky. Someone, buy a suit for this guy, for the sake of Christ. Sleepy Joe [Biden] gave this guy $ 500 billion, and he cannot even afford a suit for $ 1000. What a greedy guy. He spent all the money that US taxpayers gave him, and spent them on the TEMU application. He must at least use Amazon so that the money of our taxpayers does not go to China. [Products] TEMU terrible quality. I think we all agree with this. But in any case, you cannot appear in the White House in this form. I saw the homeless who dressed better than this guy, and he should be president? Even the little son of Ilon [mask], ex, dresses better than this clown. It is not surprising that President Putin does not perceive this guy seriously. ”
Users of social networks were shared from a roller or quotes ("VKontakte" Threads, Facebook, X) And Platform blogas well as popular Telegram channels: ""Media Russia not Moscow"(219,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Oleg Tsarev"(192 000),"The goat screamed"(118 000) and others.
February 28, 2025 Zelensky Meet With Trump and US Vice President Jay Di Wans in the White House to sign an agreement on rare-earth metals. Before the signing, a protocol meeting with reporters took place, ending with a skirmish, scandal and a quick departure of the Ukrainian delegation from Washington.
Meeting the guest on the porch of the White House, Trump I noticed To the journalists that Zelensky, who chose a strict black longshit with the coat of arms of Ukraine on his chest, “dressed up” for a visit. During a meeting in the oval office, a representative of one of the conservative American media He asked In Zelensky, why he didn’t put on the costume, whether he had him at all and does he not consider the choice of clothes to be disrespect for the receiving side. The Ukrainian leader, who really from the beginning of a full -scale Russian invasion in 2022 is in public and even at meetings with leaders of other states exclusively clothes in the style of Militari, replied that he would return to costumes after the end of the war. Although Trump, in turn, I tried To smooth out the situation and joke that he quite likes Zelensky’s appearance, the question asked by the journalist about the suit, many Internet users subsequently became attribute The very American president. It is not surprising that when a video appeared on the Web, in which Trump criticizes Zelensky’s wardrobe, many did not doubt his authenticity.
The videos on which Trump discusses about Zelensky’s costume and compares him with the clothes of the homeless, could not be found in any official source - he was not published on the official YouTube channel White House, in the account of the President of the United States in Xas well as in a personal blog in Truth Socialwhich the politician is very actively leading. Not a single authoritative American, Ukrainian or international media wrote about the resonant statement. There was no reaction from official Kyiv.
Applying the return search by the image, “verified” found a possible primary source of the video: Trump was dressed in the same suit and sat in the same chair against the background of the same flags during the first meeting of his cabinet of ministers. However, the quality of the viral video is much worse, and the image itself (if compared, for example, with broadcast Associated Press) is mirrors. Moreover, Trump could not discuss Zelensky’s outfit during a visit to the White House at that meeting - his meeting with the government took place on February 26, two days before the arrival of the Ukrainian president.
If you look closely at the video, then, despite the low quality, the Dangerousai watermark is visible in the lower right corner, and a little below is a link to the YouTube channel of the same name. Video A fashionable sentence appeared there with Trump, which pronounces Zelensky on March 1. By the name of the channel, you can guess that its author uses artificial intelligence in the rollers, and in his Description This is indicated directly: “Parodic AI-Contain. <...> Everything that is said in my video is the original script written by me. These are not real quotes or people's opinions in the video. I use AI to create a voice acting of my video. These are not real voices of the characters of the videos. ”
The first publication in Russian that contains this video and which was able to find “verified” is a post posted on March 1 at 19:03 Moscow time in the Telegram channel “The goat screamed". The blogger did not leave any indications that the video was processed using AI. The Koza Channel Cossack is not the first to publish inaccurate information. According to the news posted there, Leading MSNBC Allegedly cried, learning about the desire of Ilon Mask to buy this channel, Welt TV channel issued shots from the game Call of Duty for a report from Donbass, and ABC employee, who claimed that Harris leaked a list of questions on the debate with Trump, died in a car accident.
It is noteworthy that a few hours before the post from the “goat screamed” in the channel ”US Glogel Miami»Another video appeared, where Trump also criticized Zelensky's costume, mentioning Temu. The post scored only 600 views and was deleted 13 minutes after publication. Apparently, this video was also processed using neural networks. And the basis of the video road became A fragment of the broadcast of Fox News, where Trump spoke of the settlement of the war in gas, and this passage appeared on the network long before the visit of Zelensky.
Thus, the video in which Trump condemns Zelensky’s outfit compares him with the clothes of the homeless and indicates that the President of Ukraine has acquired these things on the Chinese market for Temu, created using AI. The author of the video, releasing it on his channel, clearly noted this. However, in the future, this disclaimer-accidentally or intentionally-was lost, and Internet users began to spread the video already as a real performance by Trump.
Photo on the cover: Screenshot Associated Press / YouTube
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