Trump delivered to us this uncanny video in which he denounces the killing of Kirk and blames the left’s rhetoric as the sole cause of this unfathomable act.
Am I crazy, or is this obviously AI?
He’s visibly had a stroke judging from a recent photo. I think the AI was to improve the droop on one side of his face.
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.
Bold to assume that governments are capable of long term plans.
Why would there be interlaced video in 2025? Fuck do they still have a tube tv?
They want to go back to the 1950s, don’t they? Pretty soon it will be black and white.
The video encoding crowd was screaming that that 10 years ago, heh. And 20 years ago.
…Shrug. I guess people are still getting ‘traditional’ cable broadcasts. Turn on YouTube TV, and you can see they still use those ancient codecs (even though its all streamed), probably because they have to just comply with the system.
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.
Agreed.
Though I wouldn’t disparage investigation and ‘figuring things out.’ I’d perhaps rephrase that: “I don’t have much experience with this topic, maybe I should qualifty my certainty,” as a sentiment, seems to have disappeared. The Trump admin is kind of a perfect embodiment of that.
To be clear, I’m not an expert here either. I’m not a broadcast engineer or anything and would defer to some news source that actually knows what they’re talking about… but I do know just enough Vapoursynth to be dangerous, and have seen what looks like this exact artifacting in way, way too many TV show broadcasts…
You telling me this guy is our first Vtuber president?
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.
This makes no sense - Trump was recently said to be the healthiest president ever, by actual doctors. Im guessing you’re not a doctor?
That’s too long to wait
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.
My thoughts exactly. Yo-semite.
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I would not put it past Donny Bonespurs to have Kirk assassinated as either a distraction or to use as a pretext for more power grabs.
I’ll admit it’s a little tin foil hatty but considering he views other people as completely disposable, I don’t think it’s that far fetched.
Nah that just doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t need any pretexts because he’s already getting everything he demands and more handed to him on a silver platter at every opportunity, and if he wanted one anyway he’d just make it up and bullshit everyone like his lot always does
I was thinking exact same thing this morning. Definitely plausible.
To your last question, it only takes seconds, that’s how
I thing the shooter was a groyper who is upset about the Epstein reversal. Sorry SRA people, having trouble seeing a leftist one-shotting the neck from 250 yards away.
But yeah this will be used as a pretext but if not this there would have been other pretexts, Like how he used big balls getting pantsed by a girl to declare marshall law in DC.
Leftist gun enjoyer reporting in - 250 yards is achievable for most people if you practice, depending on your setup. Even a mid grade rifle’s mechanical accuracy can ‘group’ a 9” circle at that range, throw a zoom optical scope on top and done.
Mid to long range shooting is a trifecta of shooter skill, knowledge of environment conditions, and quality of equipment. The further the distance, the more of each you need. That kind of range and precision was viable with basically every bolt action deer gun in America, and most hunters using them tbh.
Yeah but most SRA types have a hardon for antique Soviet garbage like SKS. “If it was good enough for the NVA it’s good enough for me.”
Also it can be really hard to find a 200+ yard range in most blue states while local hillbillies in Utah would have now trouble finding a place to plink around at 400 yards just for fun.
Are we being false flagged?
Whether or not that is the case, I bet a lot of the fascists in and around the white house creamed their pants yesterday because of the opportunity this no doubt presents to them.
if it’s a false flag it’s to distract from the epstein shit,not to have an excuse for more violence
“Vibe Presidenting”
Maybe AI enhanced, but it’s probably just interlacing
Just interlace after the ai generation to prevent detection lol
What year is this?
The worst one.
The worst one… so far.
Yeah I think it’s both interlaced and AI. We know his face isn’t looking too good lately. Worse than normal, but you can’t see any signs of that in the video. Maybe he got some Botox?
The hands are weird but that’s but that’s not what is giving me uncanny valley vibes.
it’s the movement of Trump himself. I had to go find some other videos of him of the Oval Office trading from a teleprompter. I watched some older videos but, just look at the differences in the speech given 9/9 on about the NC stabbing vs this one on 9/10.
He tends to lean back and forth while he talks and he likes to do a thing where he emphasizes points with his chin. I don’t see any of that here.
It feels like that trend where people were using AI to bring pictures to life. Like it’s him but they enhanced it with AI or edited the hell out of it. I mean it’s definitely multiple clips spliced together. You can see and hear those cuts if you pay attention.
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.
Its not a deep fake. But watch how he hides his right hand through all of the speech. Remember the bruise he had? Why would he hide that? Why would an AI video even contain that?
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.
Except if you look up footage from him at the 9/11 memorial today it looks like he had a fucking stroke. I’ll edit with a link in a sec.
Edit as promised: https://fxtwitter.com/atrupar/status/1966132816984326147?s=12
Wow he does look terrible here.
Yeah, that’s morph cut in Premiere, which they added a decade ago. There’s also generative extend, which is the more recent AI addition.
Soooo did he die too?
