I posted this earlier.
He straight up loses a finger.
Slowed down:
Zoomed in on the fingers.
Use the time line to scrub the video. He loses the pinky and gains an additional digit on top, and everything just shifts down one register.
Have I got a trick for you:
HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK ARE YOU OK!!?!?!?
It's okay! It's AI!
I think this may be just interpolation weirdness. Apparently the video was recorded in 24fps but encoded in 60.
See this analysis, I posted it in another comment: https://youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
Edit: worth noting the interpolarion may be done by a similar AI engine which explains why it looks so similar to AI generated footage. Similar technology as the motion smoothness on TVs or DLSS frame gen. If it truly is 24-60fps and the interpolation is done by AI this would indicate over half the frames are AI generated. Would explain a lot while not necessarily meaning the video as a whole is AI.
just visually track the tip of his middle finger. And keep track of how many fingers are supposed to be past it.
His middle finger litterally becomes his ring finger.
I know, im seeing what you mean. I'm saying that could very much be an issue with interpolation. Especially if its AI interpolation. I edited my comment to add a bit more detail but its possible that over half the frames of this video are AI generated while the video itself is still real. Obviously I cant say for sure that that's what is happening but this very much could be an interpolation artifact. Even in non-genAI interpolation, weird smudginess and morphing of fast moving objects in interpolated frames is a common and well known issue.
I could accept AI enhanced, but also, like...I've been looking at it a lot.
He's way too still. Uncannily still. The chair doesn't move. At all. It's in high resolution. But isn't.
And the finger thing. Its such an extremely well established issue with these kinds of videos.
It's got enough red flags I'll be looking for more coverage on the matter.
Regardless, it's so unbelievably wildy inappropriate to be doing any kind of ai enhanced or even smoothed editing to the words of a world leader when those words have incredible weight impact and are effectively legally binding.
I'm looking at it more and I'm fairly certain this is just interpolated.
Look at this frame:
Seems to me to be pretty normal. No weird hand stuff, fingers look fine.
Now look at the next two frames, particularly the second one:
Totally jank. Fingers are blotchy, there's a ghost finger, overall looks super fake. But then look at the next two frames:
Second to last has a little bit of weirdness still, but by the last frame it looks totally legit and real. No blotchy fingers, no ghost fingers, overall looks very normal.
That kind of behavior - where some frames look completely fine and in between ones look blotchy and weird - is exactly what you expect from motion interpolation.
Look at the example on a cat video on wikepedia, for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation
The framerate is much lower on the original video here, but you can see a lot of the same kinds of artifacts. Blotchy limbs, "ghosts" in movment, things morphing in ways they shouldn't... its very similar to what's seen in the trump video. And mind you, to my knowledge this video is done with older interpolation methods that had nothing to do with genAI.
They're aware that their supporters are too stupid to notice.
I hate that I don’t even know what’s real anymore.
whut, he just moves them so his index finger is mostly behind the middle one? you can still see it. what am I missing?
Use the time line to scrub the video and put your eyes on the ring finger of the left hand. The pinky dissolves into the hand, and the ring finger "becomes" the pinky.
Now put your eyes on the index finger of the left hand and track it visually. It "becomes" the middle finger, and an entirely new finger appears to take its place.
It’s true, the ring finger basically becomes the pinky and the pinky disappears. His pointer magically changes position. Also, his middle knuckle looks unnatural to start off with.
~~Oh dang, I saw that post earlier and thought it was probably just him repositioning his hands, but it really was my phone not having enough resolution.~~
Edit: although the motion interpolation also makes sense. I withdraw my comment, because I frankly don’t know enough about ai nor do I have good enough eyesight to responsibly have a position on this.
I feel like we should've seen this coming; if/when he kicks the bucket, they're gonna use AI to keep the cult of personality going for as long as they can.
Can you imagine if he also died today and that's why they had to use AI
Can I ever
Weekends at Uncle Sam's.
This White House leaks worse than Trump's asshole. If he died, there's a better then small chance that staffers would accidentally invite a journalist to their Signal chat about it. It's just not something they can keep secret.
Oh my... y'all need to chill.
Download yt-dlp and run this command, to get CNN's 'direct' 245MB stream on your hard drive instead of AP's (or YouTube's) tiny re-encodes on a web player:
yt-dlp -f direct https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/us/video/trump-oval-office-statement-white-house-charlie-kirk-death-digvid
See that combing? It's interlaced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
Or telecined, I think, to be more specific. While it's impossible to know what the actual feed from the White House looked like, re-encodes I'm looking at are clearly de-interlaced (poorly) which is why motion looks so weird. It's also choppy and MPEG-blocky, hallmarks of poor encoding even in a 13.9 Mb/s stream, and recompressing that to a tiny bitrate makes it even worse.
Y'all (and apparently the rest of the internet) are obsessing over literally decades-old video encoding/broadcasting issues and oldschool video filters to fix them that have nothing to with AI.
New conspiracy: The government planned this decades ago and had the video ready in advance.
I'm reminded of how the high-resolution footage of Space-X's landing [attempts] from a few years ago stoked massive waves of paranoia and conspiracy across the internet because nobody had ever seen such modern footage of a spacecraft in motion and most people who saw it thought it was fake.
People really want to feel like they've figured something special out, in a world where media and information is constantly changing and advancing.
You telling me this guy is our first Vtuber president?
There's definitely a weird sped-up "twitch" moment that occurs around 20 seconds in. I didn't detect it elsewhere after watching most of it (without sound) but at the very least there seems to be some smoothing-type postprocessing going on.
But does he really keep his hands that still for such long periods? Haven't paid much attention to that aspect of "serious" press releases but that stands out to me, even if it's a teleprompter job and he's trying to keep from accordiflailing.
I disagree. I recently saw this analysis:
https://youtube.com/shorts/hXhDB1fK7ok
It seems pretty thorough, and this guy specializes in exactly this. Some of the weirdness seems to be due to a miss match between the 24fps the video was filmed in and the 60fps it was encoded in.
It is generated, yes, he took a still and the team crafted the script and the prompt later on.
Signs to look for:
Speed the video up: no breathing pattern. Close ups: hands millimetre steady plus it morphs quite heavily Skin: loses wrinkles gains dark spots plus color shifts on the edges where it meets the hair
This is bad, but it will fool millions.
This is just how old people with a dying brain, reading from a teleprompter, with a spray on tan, 3lb of makeup, and unnatural lighting look.
I see everyone here talking about specific parts of the video and how it's fake because of various imperfections in the rendering. You are all thinking WAY too hard about this. When was the last time you saw trump speak for that long without some narcissistic rant thrown in off script? For him to accomplish this video he would need a level of reading comprehension that we have never witnessed from him before. THE REAL TRUMP IS ILLITERATE. No fucking way could he have read a teleprompter that quickly.
"Vibe Presidenting"
There's a lot of uncanny movement for sure. It looks almost like it's stabilized sometimes.
I'd say it's either AI or Disney animatronic.
Connecting the dots between this video and his droopy public appearance yesterday: he's clearly recovering from stroke-type symptoms, probably a TIA.
Notice the persistent rightward tilt of his head and that he only moves his left hand. The uncanny mouth movements people have pointed out are probably an AI touch up to correct his facial droop. They basically propped him up for this video and kept him out of the spotlight during yesterday's public appearance.
My money is that he's projected to recover (they wouldn't be able to hide a paralyzed president forever) but it's another mark against his health claims. If it was a TIA it could be foreshadowing The Big One
About 1 in 3 people who has a TIA will eventually have a stroke, with about half occurring within a year after the TIA.
Why do you think it’s AI?
The movements are all wrong. I think they've used AI to enhance the video and/or hide jump cuts.
He didn't call the children beautiful, clearly not Trump speaking.
It looks like it at a glance but I'm pretty sure that's just how he is when he tries to read a script...
This is another problem with the "AI" grift. Since there's no such thing as "AI", the term is constantly misused to the point of meaninglessness.
Is this video just edited? Or is it edited with "AI"?!?!?! There's no fucking difference. It's all just computers doing shit with absolutely zero "intelligence".
I've been thinking of late that his tweets look AI generated. You just enter something like: take today's news from a reputable source, invert all the facts, add lots of hyperbole, and capitalize words for emphasis.
Hahahahaha, wtf is this? Is this real life? They made an AI fuckoff video for their dead Nazi agitator? Couldn't even be bothered to film it with the Pedo-in-chief live?
Where the fuck is trump, gonna need proof of life after this shit. Cankles finally got him?
Release the Epstein files - Republicans are pedophiles and pedophile protectors.
Soooo did he die too?
What a wild time to be alive, man.
There is software (I think it comes with Adobe stuff) that allows you subtly morph/crossfade instead of jumpcut, so if the speaker pauses or flubs a line you can remove it without an obvious, distracting jump.
I think that’s probably what we’re seeing here.
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