Is the video of Donald Trump touching and slapping Bill Clinton’s crotch real? No, it’s not. The first frame of the six-second clip is an actual image of Trump and Clinton at a 2000 golf tournament, which was released by the Clinton Library in 2016. The rest of the video is created by artificial intelligence tools and is indicated by changes in background details compared to authenticated images of the same scene.
This video (archived here) was shared by the @NORCAL_icmag account on November 14, 2025. The caption is:
This is what the first frame of the post looks like at the time of this writing.
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com
The photo of Trump and Clinton is an authentic image documenting an interaction between the two at the US Open golf tournament held in Flushing Meadows, New York in September 2000. This was one of several photos released by the Clinton Presidential Library on Friday, September 9, 2016 (archived here).
Image source: William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Signs that the video was created by artificial intelligence tools include the disappearance of a woman in the background between Trump and Clinton in the first frame.
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com
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The woman suddenly disappears and is not in the background for more than 3 seconds.
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com
The chair returns 4 seconds after the clip.
Image source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com
