Real-time fact-checking found the president debunking a hoax brought on by a viral video as he suggested the likely culprit that even he acknowledges is “a little bit scary.”
Tuesday at the White House, President Donald Trump entertained the press in the Oval Office as he announced the relocation of Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. On top of the update on Rocket City, the chief executive managed to quash a hoax that someone had been throwing items out of a window at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with an explanation on why it was likely AI-generated.
While fielding questions from the media, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy brought up the video that had been making the rounds online and asked if he’d seen it, to which Trump responded, “No, that’s probably AI-generated … Actually, you can’t open the windows, you know why? They’re all heavily armored and bulletproof.”
The president went on to joke that it would be the “last place” he’d try something like that, “because there’s cameras all over the place, including yours.”
President Trump confirms viral video of objects being thrown from a White House window is an AI generated fake made and disseminated by Democrat propagandists: “those windows are sealed and weigh 600 pounds.” pic.twitter.com/DifIJgb8lV
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) September 2, 2025
“… in fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day. She said, love to have a little fresh air come in, but you can’t. They’re bulletproof. Number one, they’re sealed. And number two, each window weighs about 600 pounds. You have to be pretty strong to open them up,” he added before waving Doocy over to show him the video. “It was AI-generated. So it’s a little bit scary, to be honest with you. But those windows are all very heavily sealed.”
Prior to the president’s explanation, his detractors had been pushing the video as cause for concern that something untoward was taking place at the White House, only for officials to later suggest to the media that contractors were employed to complete routine maintenance at the time of the video.
Why are objects being thrown out of the White House window? What the hell is going on?
pic.twitter.com/GSE6GN5GFC— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 1, 2025
As Doocy returned to the pack with other members of the press, Trump continued, “And one of the problems we have with AI, it’s both good and bad. If something happens really bad, just blame AI. But also, they create things, you know, it works both ways. If something happens, it’s really bad. Maybe I’ll have to just blame AI, but there’s truth to it because I see so many phony things.”
On that point, in July, the White House took steps to fulfill the president’s January executive order on “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI” with the release of “America’s AI Action Plan” that touted strategic partnerships and guidelines to preserve free speech and prevent “top-down ideological bias.”
Additionally, the first lady laid out her own “Presidential AI challenge” to K-12 students in August, aiming to expand the technology’s potential as well as “showcase the spirit of American innovation.”
While the president continued to address AI Tuesday, he went on to speak about a video that had been generated out of images of him, showing him aging from a child to the present.
Further, the White House wasted no time taking advantage of the birth of a new meme from the exchange as the image of Trump looking at Doocy’s phone was shared with a second image of a strategic strike and the word “ADIÓS” under the caption, “TERRORISTS ELIMINATED.”
JUST IN: President Trump says the viral AI video of him growing up over the years was “a little bit scary, to be honest with you.”
“I saw something as I was growing up from the time I was a baby till now.”
“I said, ‘Who did that?’ It was AI-generated. So it’s a little bit… pic.twitter.com/WOZEPrmgYS
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 2, 2025
TERRORISTS ELIMINATED. ADIÓS. pic.twitter.com/92buoGEB4E
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 2, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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