In May 2025, the network was widely discussed how the US president did not drink coffee at a meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince and thereby showed extreme disrespect for local traditions. The messages diverged that the local television channel, trying to hush up the situation, even put on the air the video created by the neural network, on which Trump still tried the drink. We checked the reliability of this story.
May 14 Telegram channel "Ribbon”(143,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) said:“ Al Arabiya processed the television channel with the help of AI Video from the meeting of Trump and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. They decided to go to it there because Trump did not drink traditional coffee proposed to him, as this is a manifestation of a rude disrespect for the receiving side. On the occasion of a visit to the Saudi Arabia of the head of the White House in the Royal Palace, a greeting ceremony took place, during which all participants were offered traditional Arabic coffee - ghuhi, a drink with spices, symbolizing hospitality in Arabic culture. The generated personnel were allowed on the air, as Trump drinks the proposed coffee from the cup. In fact, Trump set him aside. " The post was accompanied by a video with a comparison of real personnel shot at a meeting of politicians, and a video presumably created by a neural network and shown on the air.
According to the TGSTAT service, at least 340 similar Russian -speaking publications appeared in Telegram, which in total gained about 4 million views. Among others, the channels reported about the generated shots with Trump "Before everyone else. Well, almost"(499,000 views),"Insider UA"(396 000, the post is deleted),"Dmitry Nicotin"(322 000),"Solovyov"(230,000),"Newsach / Dv"(211 000), Nexta Live (204,000), "Uncle Glory"(171 000),"Media Russia not Moscow"(152 000),"Barrel of black caviar"(124 000), Voblya (118 000), "Ostashko! Important"(100,000), as well as"Russian newspaper"(19,000) and Daily Storm (12,000). Channel "Kommersant FM"(60,000 views) spoke about the same with reference to the quasifactchkeing project"Minravdi"(50,000). They allegedly processed how Al Arabiya allegedly processed how the Arabiya TV channel also wrote “Gazeta.ru","Komsomolskaya Truth","Moscow Komsomolets","Military Review","Paragraph" And Life.ru. In the social network X, such messages were encouraged in different languages: English (@nexta_tv, 83,000 views), Urdu (@Ir_urdu, 92 000), Indonesian (@SoftWarnews, 60 000), Persian (@nazdikeshobh, 21 000) and others.
The viral 24-second video is a collage consisting of two videos, consistently reproducing one over the other. At the top there is an inscription on Farsi with the question: "Did Trump Coffee [Crown Prince Mohammed] Bin Salman?" According to other signatures, the first record highlighted by red is fake and created by artificial intelligence. Below is the supposedly real original video highlighted in green. “Although the neural network has successfully coped with video adjustment, some mistakes are still noticeable. For example, on separate frames, one can notice the difference in the armrests of the seats, as well as changes in the appearance of a person sitting to the right of the Saudi prince, ” - explained "Komsomolskaya Pravda."
May 13, 2025 Trump I visited Sadovskaya Arabia on an official visit. By application The White House, in Riyadh, the largest agreement in history was signed on the sale of defense products, and several more transactions were concluded. In particular, Saudi Arabia I pledged Invest in data processing centers throughout the United States.
Shortly after Trump's reception at the Crown Prince Bin Salman, social networks users noticed that the US president seemed to refuse to drink coffee offered to him during the greeting ceremony. Authoritative media wrote about the refusal, among which BBC And The Independent. Such publications give a video where it is captured how Trump takes a cup and, while the rest drink, holds it in his hands at the level of the knees, and then puts the drink on the table. In the collage mentioned above, this video is designated as genuine.
"Verified" studied the fragment broadcasts The technique available on the YouTube channel Al Arabiya. The meeting of Trump and Bin Salman, behind which portraits of members of the Saudi Royal Family were visible, took place at the King Halid Airport in Riyadh. In the video Al Arabiya Trump also I did not try A drink from a cup (Saudi News Agency Confirmedthat there was coffee in it). Similar broadcasts on which the US President only puts a cup on the table was held by agencies Reuters And Associated Press, as well as a Saudi television channel Al ekhbariya.
However, the greeting ceremony at the airport was not the only one in which Trump and Bin Salman took part. According to Reuters, after a couple of hours a similar event took place Already in the palace of al-yamama. There participants (including And Trump*) again Rented cups with coffee. A similar broadcast led Al Arabiya, and also Associated Press And Al ekhbariya. Shots with Trump, drinking from a cup, were not shown there.
However, already from these broadcasts it becomes clear: the assumption that the video with the drinking coffee Trump was fully or partially generated by the neural network or removed during His visit to Saudi Arabia in 2017 is erroneous. This video was shot precisely during the greeting ceremony in the palace in May 2025: the clothes of politicians and the interior coincide, and the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits on the left hand of Bin Salman (during the airport ceremony, he sat on his right hand from Trump). At the same time, there are no artifacts on the video indicating that it was processed.
Moreover, if it is somehow considered a slowed version of the broadcast, you can see momentLike Trump's hand with a cup rises to his face.
The record also shows how Trump gives A cup to an employee of the palace. “Verified” tried to synchronize this fragment and viral video.
“Verified” got acquainted with dozens of reports about Trump's arrival in Saudi Arabia published on YouTube channel Al Arabiya. We could not find a plot there where viral shots with Trump drunk from a cup were demonstrated. However, in the distributed video with a comparison of two records in the upper left corner, there was a logo of the person -speaking version of Al Arabiya. In her social networks and the truth Layd A similar 12-second-fixed video where the US president drinks coffee in the company of Bin Salman. At the same time, in posts published on May 13 at about 18:00 Moscow time, Approvedthat previously this record has already attracted the attention of Internet users.
Indeed, in the social network X you can find earlier twes with similar personnel. For example, at 14:04, photos with a trampus drinking from a cup was Published On the page of the Saudi news site News50.sa. Then, a three-second video without any logos shared numerous Arabic-speaking users X (examples here, here, here And here) And News50.sa. At 15:36 Video with his logo published a television channel Al ekhbariya.
It was not possible to establish exactly who shot the video with the drinker from the cup of Trump. The collage from this video and the record shot at the airport ceremony first appeared in the Persian language segment of social networks. Moreover, the creator of this collage used a video with the Persian-speaking service of Al Arabiya, which is why the statement later spread that this television channel was trying to hush up an awkward situation.
Thus, the Al Arabiya television channel did not allow the generated AI fragment of the broadcast on which Trump drinks coffee. Both Arabic users and the Middle Eastern media were shared by a viral video, including the Persian -speaking version of Al Arabiya. However, despite the statements of some authors, there are no signs of AI processing on the distributed personnel. Apparently, users mixed up two meetings of Trump with bin Salman. At the same time, the US president, indeed, did not drink coffee during the first reception.
How They wrote Some media, after that refusal on the network, a conspiracy theory appeared: some users suggested that the American president was afraid of poisoning. However, before Trump has repeatedly declaredwhich limits itself in the use of coffee after the death of his brother in 1981. “He was ten years older than me and always told me not to drink or smoke. And to this day I did not smoke a single cigarette. I did not drink a glass of alcohol. I will not even drink a cup of coffee. ” told Trump in an interview with Esquire magazine in 2015. At the same time, by data The New York Times for 2017, the politician could drink on a dozen portions of dietary cola daily. However, on the network still bring Evidence that Trump sometimes allows himself a cup of coffee. And during a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2017, he More than once drank This drink, prepared in accordance with local traditions.
*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.
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