Published July 25, 2026

On July 24, 2026, footage purportedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump, 80, collapsing while trying to get into a vehicle spread online. People shared the video as alleged evidence of Trump's declining health.

The clip received traction on X (archived) and TikTok, where one video (archived) received more than 4 million views, as of this writing. Many people appeared to believe the video was a genuine depiction of the president falling and needing help from someone.

(TikTok user @mistertimothytimes.)

Snopes readers searched the site for information about the video.

The footage is not real. Artificial intelligence software created the video, and its originator labeled it accordingly. The fake video is based on footage from July 1, 2026, that shows Trump pausing momentarily before getting into the vehicle.

In the video's first posting, the creator wrote in a caption: "Video is AI, but all the same." 

That disclaimer was not immediately visible. Viewers had to click "more" to see the video's full caption, which read [emphasis ours]:

It's coming Donny.. You feel it don't you? The pull. It's heavy. You know it's around the corner and there's nothing you can do. No stopping it. No avoiding it. The ultimate inevitability. Age will take you, even though your crimes didn't. What power do you really have? None. In the end you fall like everyone else. Only difference? Your destination is guaranteed.

#fyp #foryou #america #fyp≥ #fyp≥viral

(Video is Al, but all the same)

Hours later, as the video circulated widely, the creator made another post saying:

You can't take everything at face value. And this is an amazing lesson with TikTok and life and politics and what's going on is you have to click more. You have to look beyond the headline.

We reached out to the creator seeking further information and he responded, "I had wanted to see how many people would just jump, and it is frightening at how many actually did." He said he downloaded footage to create the video off of TikTok.

The fake video was based on footage from July 1, 2026, that Fox News published. That original, unedited video shows Trump pausing briefly, with one foot in the air, as he gets into the vehicle. At no point in the video does he collapse.

The AI-generated video contains visible signs of AI software, including blurred borders and misshapen, unnatural hands.

(TikTok user @mistertimothytimes and Snopes Illustration.)

It's possible the TikTok creator used a July 1 Instagram post (archived) to help make the video. That Instagram post has the words "BREAKING NOW" in the same colors and font as the in-question clip.

We reached out to the White House for its comment on the AI imagery of Trump and will update this story if we receive a response.

For further reading, in August 2025, we reported on another AI-generated piece of media that supposedly shows Trump falling.

By Taija PerryCook