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Reported Viral AI-Generated Photo Purportedly Shows Donald Trump Using a Walker
- Occurred
- Dec 11, 2025
- Published
- Dec 12, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A fabricated image purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump using a walker reportedly circulated widely on social media in mid-December 2025. Fact-checkers determined the image was AI-generated, citing visual anomalies and detection of Google's SynthID watermark. The image reportedly spread across multiple platforms and was shared by a political strategist, prompting public confusion and debunking by news outlets and AI detection tools.
Developers
Deployers
- Keith Edwards
- Unknown actors
Harmed parties
- Donald Trump
- Epistemic integrity
- General public
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated image of a political figure spread on social media causing public confusion.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8