Скачать или смотреть President calls White House bag-toss video an 'AI' fake after staff confirmed it's real

A video that captured a mysterious object being thrown out of a White House window went viral, sparking wild conspiracy theories online before competing explanations were offered by an administration official - and the president himself.

The video, posted Monday by Washingtonian Problems on TikTok, captured a person wearing white pants stepping onto the second-story windowsill before tossing a dark object, which is seen plummeting down the White House facade.

A White House official told The Independent Tuesday that the window was opened — and the bag tossed out — by "a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone." President Donald Trump was golfing Sunday and Monday at his club in Sterling, Virginia.

But hours later at a press conference, the president initially said he hadn't seen the video, but said it was “probably AI-generated” because the windows can’t be opened.

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