Does the actual video show Donald J. Trump’s name being removed from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Performing Arts Center after a judge orders it removed? No, that’s not true. A judge ordered its deletion, but an AI-generated social media clip of the letter being deleted as the crowd cheered went viral. “We use AI to comment on our wonderful, yet twisted world,” says the profile of the account where the video was first uploaded.
The video was posted on May 30, 2026 in an Instagram post (archived here) from an account named “cabracabaret” with the following caption:
Pushback has begun. Judge rules Trump’s name should be removed from Kennedy Center #kennedycenter #pushback #whitehouse #dcmonuments
According to a May 29, 2026 NPR report (archived here), a judge did rule that the names must be dropped, but there has been no report yet on what actually happened.
The starting frame of the video looks like this:
Image source: Instagram cabaret cabaret video.
Although there was no direct AI disclaimer in the video post itself, the account that uploaded the video (archived here) has a profile that reads:
Use AI to comment on our strange but twisted world
The video had some glitches typical of AI-generated footage, including strange misspellings (“Eedy” instead of “Kennedy”, “Danald” and “Rnald” instead of “Donald”), and the word “MDRIAL” dropping instead of the word “Trump.”
Image source: Glitch collage of Cabra Cabaret videos on Instagram.
For comparison, the actual sign looked like this, courtesy of Wikipedia:
Look for the sign that was changed in December 2025.
Dclemens1971, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
