Video is fake, verified, still spreading

A video claiming that U.S. President Donald Trump praised Dr. Muhammad Yunus, chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, has recently circulated on social media. However, fact-checks show that Trump made no such remarks, and the audio in the video was generated using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

On May 11, a page named Amar Desh posted the video, which was widely shared. The page used the logo of the national daily newspaper Amar Desh in its profile and cover photo; however, it has no connection with the Amar Desh newspaper. The page has previously spread false information. The post was later removed.

Later that night, Rumor Scanner and FactWatch conducted separate fact-checks and confirmed that the video is old and the voice and statement attributed to Trump were created using AI.

The fake Amar Desh page’s post said, “U.S. President Donald Trump praised Dr. Yunus.” Trump was heard in the video saying, “Yunus is my friend and he is a man of great personality.”

In the background of the video, a voice, sounds like Donald Trump, is heard saying, “Professor Dr. Yunus is a great personality and my friend also. He has recently taken charge of the interim government of Bangladesh and he is doing well. Dr. Yunus will play a big role in making Bangladesh prosperous.”

Asif Nazrul, the law adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government, was also seen sharing the post. However, the page later removed the original post, and the one shared by Nazrul is no longer visible. The video continues to circulate on various Facebook profiles and groups (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), as well as on X and Instagram (1, 2, 3).

While verifying the source of the video, Dismislab traced it back to a clip published by U.S. media outlet Fox News. The video was posted on Fox News’ accounts on X, Facebook, and Instagram, with the caption: “TRUMP: “Nobody’s ever done public cabinet meetings. They were quiet for a reason—because they weren’t impressive.”

The video circulated on Facebook is an exact match with the one from Fox News. It contains no remarks about Dr. Yunus.

The original video is from a cabinet meeting held on April 30, which was livestreamed by the official White House YouTube channel. The full two-hour recording is available on that channel.

The video was titled “President Trump Participates in a Cabinet Meeting, Apr. 30, 2025.” In it, red and black “Gulf of America” caps were placed in front of each participant. The same caps are visible in the fake video shared in Bangladesh.

Since taking office on Jan. 20 this year, President Trump has held at least four cabinet meetings (1, 2, 3, 4). None of them included any remarks about Bangladesh or Yunus. The caps were only arranged this way during the April 30 meeting.

A transcript of the most recent cabinet meeting is available on the Roll Call website. No statements mentioning Dr. Yunus appear in the transcript.

The segment of the Fox News video that was used to make the fake video spans from 1:45:02 to 1:45:20. Fake audio was overlaid on the original video and shared in Bangladesh.

According to a report by Bangladeshi fact-checking outlet FactWatch, the remarks attributed to Trump were generated using artificial intelligence. They used an AI detection tool called Deepfake-o-meter to verify the audio.

The page named Amar Desh, which widely spread the video, uses the logo of the mainstream Bangladeshi newspaper Amar Desh on its profile and cover images. However, the official Amar Desh page clarified that the post shared by Asif Nazrul did not come from them.

An analysis of just 20 posts from the fake Amar Desh page shows that at least three are false: one is a fake talk show featuring blogger Pinaki Bhattacharya, BNP leader Rumeen Farhana, and NCP leader Tajnuva Jabeen; another is a fake video of the arrest of Chattogram Awami League leader Nurul Azam Rony; and the third falsely claims Pakistan’s Air Force was named “King of the Skies.”

Among the 20 posts analyzed, four were critical of the Awami League, four of the BNP, and three were offensive toward Mahfuj Alam, the interim government’s information adviser. Mahfuj recently faced online backlash over a post related to asking apology from collaborators of war crime in the 1971 Liberation War.