DeepfakeMedium
Misleading Deepfake Video of Trump Mocking Zelenskyy for Clothing Goes Viral on Facebook
- Occurred
- Mar 12, 2025
- Published
- Mar 12, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In March 2025, an AI-generated deepfake video of Donald Trump criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his clothing circulated widely on Facebook. In the video, Trump mocks Zelenskyy by calling him "Temu Zelenskyy." The video was created by a parody YouTube channel using AI voice and face synthesis tools, but it was reportedly mistaken by some viewers as real.
Developers
- Deepfake technology developers
- Synthetic audio generation technology developers
Deployers
- DangerousAI
Harmed parties
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Donald Trump
- General public
- Facebook users
- YouTube users
Tags
- Deepfake
- Parody
- Satire
- Mistaken parody
- Mistaken satire
- Misinformation
- Disinformation
- YouTube
- Social media
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI-generated synthetic media used to deceive viewers about real political figures.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8