{"id":13370,"date":"2026-06-01T01:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/06\/01\/fact-check-ai-video-of-trumps-name-being-removed-from-kennedy-center-is-not-real-yahoo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T01:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T01:13:32","slug":"fact-check-ai-video-of-trumps-name-being-removed-from-kennedy-center-is-not-real-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2026\/06\/01\/fact-check-ai-video-of-trumps-name-being-removed-from-kennedy-center-is-not-real-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: AI Video Of Trump’s Name Being Removed From Kennedy Center Is NOT Real – Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Does a real video show Donald J. Trump’s name being removed from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts after a judge ordered the name to be removed? No, that’s not true: While a judge did order the removal, a viral social media clip that showed the letters being taken down while a crowd cheered was generated with AI. The account where the video was first uploaded has a bio that reads “Using AI to comment about our wondrous but twisted world”.<\/p>\n

The video appeared in an Instagram post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) from an account named “cabracabaret” on May 30, 2026 with a description that read:<\/p>\n

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The pushback has begun. Judge rules Trump’s name must be removed from Kennedy Center #kennedycenter #pushback #whitehouse #dcmonuments<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to reporting from NPR<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) on May 29, 2026 a judge did indeed rule the name had to come down but there have been no news reports yet about it actually happening.<\/p>\n

The opening frame of the video looked like this:<\/p>\n

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There was no direct AI disclaimer on the video post itself but the account that uploaded it<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) has a bio that reads:<\/p>\n

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Using AI to comment about our wondrous but twisted world<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The video showed several glitches typical of AI-generated footage, such as weird misspellings (“Eedy” instead of “Kennedy”, “Danald” and “Rnald” instead of “Donald”) and the word “MDRIAL” falling down instead of the word “Trump”.<\/p>\n

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For comparison, this is what the actual sign looked like, courtesy of Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

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Maarten Schenk Updated Sun, May 31, 2026 at 9:38 PM UTC 1 min read Lead Stories says: AI Takedown Does a real video show Donald J. Trump’s name being removed from the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts after a judge ordered the name to be removed? No, that’s not true: While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}