A video that appears to be of former US President Donald Trump is making the rounds across social media platforms.
The video showed Donald Trump chastising Nigerians for protesting their country’s situation. He said, “You Nigerians are so ridiculous, Tinubu has been in office barely 10 months working his tail off, and all you people do is whine and whine. You are lucky that it is not me that is your president. I will have the whole bunch of you locked up in prison.”
The video, shared by an X user, was captioned “DONALD TRUMP on TINUBU 😂🤣😂 If I were TINUBU, I will have the whole bunch of you complaining luckd up in PRISON! Abeg PBAT continue your job, we no dey make noise again
We are not hungry again before you go follow Donald Trump’s advice o 🤭
Biko, we beg u”
As of the time of writing this report, it had been shared over 300 times and viewed over 84,000 times on Twitter and other platforms, including Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Supporters of Tinubu appeared to have shared the video, implying their implicit disapproval of the social media criticisms directed at Tinubu’s administration by Nigerians.
Expressions of discontent with the nation’s security challenges and the economic woes facing citizens have been constant. In February 2024, protests were held simultaneously across the country, and demands were made for the president to address the hardships and state of the nation.
Claim: Did Trump reprimand Nigerians for protesting against Tinubu?
Verification
The CDD War Room examined the video and discovered some discrepancies. The audio was found to be out of sync with Trump’s mouth movement, which is one of the features to look for when examining manipulated videos.
It was also discovered that the watermark on the video says “made with TryParrotAi.com.” TryParrot is a text-to-speech celebrity voice generator that users can adapt to make entertaining videos. Users can choose celebrities from a pre-loaded library and input any text they want to have converted into voice, and the app generates such voices.
The CDD War Room discovered that other videos, unrelated to the one in which Trump discussed Tinubu and Nigerians, had been made using the footage.
Verdict: FALSE
The video is manipulated. It is an artificial intelligence generated video, which unsuspecting social media users could pass off as true.
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