Donald Trump's video promising to support Imran Khan is a deepfake

By: Ankita Kulkarni March 27, 2024

Screenshot of viral social media posts. (X/Screenshot/Edited by Logically Facts)

Video of former US President Donald Trump speaking to NBC News in 2017 was digitally manipulated to claim he supports Imran Khan.

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What is the claim?

A video shared on social media shows former US President Donald Trump expressing support for former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested at his home last year in a corruption case. In the video, Trump reportedly said: Hello, my Pakistani American friends. I promise that if I win, I will do my best to get Imran Khan out of jail as quickly as possible. He is my friend. I love it. I will support him to take back the government and switch, and we will work together to strengthen our ties. Imran Khan Zindabad (sic).

Users shared this video with claims in Urdu that Trump will release the imprisoned Pakistani leader if he wins the 2024 US elections. The post (archived here) had garnered 27,500 views at the time of writing the story . Archives of similar articles can be found here and here.

Screenshot of viral social media posts. (X/Screenshot/Edited by Logically Facts)

However, this video is a deepfake. It was created from an old Trump interview in which he talked about former FBI Director James Comey.

What are the facts ?

A close look at the video shows that Trump's lip movements are out of sync with the words he speaks. At 0:14, there is a jump in the video, and it appears that the video is replaying from the beginning, showing Trump's repeated hand movements. These signs show that the video is manipulated.

We did a keyword search on Google and found that the original video was posted on NBC on May 12, 2017. Trump was speaking to reporter Lester Holt about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey . Around 5:43 in the video, we can see similar eye movements from Trump, and at 5:49, we can see the exact same hand action.

He was speaking about an FBI investigation against him over Russia's alleged involvement in the 2016 US presidential elections. There are several similarities between the viral clip and the interview, such as Trump's tie, his microphone, the insignia on his costume and the background.

Comparison between the viral clip and the NBC interview. (Source: X/NBC News/Screenshot)

We also released the video via itisaar.ai, a deepfake detection tool developed by professors at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. The app classified the viral clip as deepfake.

Interestingly, the same clip was previously shared with another post (archived here) in February 2024. A user from X (formerly Twitter) shared this clip in which Trump allegedly said that once elected US president, he would give Turkish President Erdogan 24 hours. hours to get his troops out of Cyprus. Several other versions of the same video have been shared in the past. You can access it here and here.

The verdict

The above evidence establishes that the viral clip is a deepfake and that Donald Trump did not post or make any statements in support of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. The original video is from 2017, where he spoke to NBC News about then-FBI Director James Comey. Therefore, we marked the statement as false.

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