Sounds a little like some beep-boop BS.
President Donald Trump is blaming robots, or more specifically artificial intelligence, for a very weird White House video widely shared on social media Monday — but there’s one big flaw in his claim.
An Instagram account called “Washingtonianprobs” posted a bizarre clip of someone throwing mysterious objects out of an open window in a residential part of the White House over the weekend.
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“One of our community members noticed some things being thrown out of one of The White House’s windows today,” the post read. “Doing some deep Sunday cleaning? 👀”
Due to the truly bonkers nature of the video, it quickly spread to other platforms and became viral enough that the White House felt compelled to respond.
“It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone,” a White House official said in a statement to Time magazine on Tuesday, which implies the content in the video was real.
Yet, when Trump was asked about the video during a press conference on Tuesday, he indicated that it was the first time he had ever heard about it — and immediately waved it off as fake.
“No, that’s probably AI-generated,” Trump said, noting that one can’t open the windows in the White House because “they’re all heavily armored.”
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“In fact, my wife was complaining about it the other day. She said, ‘I’d love to have a little fresh air come in.’ But you can’t, they’re bulletproof,” Trump said, before continuing to ramble about the windows.
“And uh, No. 1, they’re sealed, and No. 2, each window weighs about 600 lbs. So, you have to be pretty strong to open them up,” Trump said before pausing and asking the reporter who was questioning him to show him the video.
A reporter showing President Donald Trump the viral video of objects being thrown out of a White House window during a press conference Tuesday. Screenshot Associated Press via YouTube
After the reporter showed Trump the video and told him that the video appeared to be shot from the “15th side,” Trump went on to say that it was impossible because “those windows are sealed.”
“It’s the kind of thing they do,” Trump said, before making a telling statement.
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“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 just have to blame AI.”
He then went on to describe watching an AI slop video of him “growing up from the time I was a baby until now” and found it “a little bit scary.”
“But those windows are very heavily sealed,” Trump concluded.
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Despite Trump and his White House staff crossing wires on their official story for the odd video, when the clip first made its way onto X Monday, plenty of users had some very funny theories as to why items were being hurled out of a White House window — especially since rumors swirled over the weekend that Trump’s health had declined.
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