Does a video show President Trump in the Oval Office calling the collapse of Building 7 at the World Trade Center "the smoking gun of 9/11" and praising Alex Jones as a "national treasure?" No, that's not true: A disclaimer saying the video is "obviously fake" appears in the last second of the clip. The video was posted on an X account that has previously shared videos that replaced Trump's real words and lip movements with fake ones using AI technology.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on X by @MaverickDarby on May 9, 2025 under the title "You've gotta be kidding me. Trump just brought up Building 7. Unreal." In the video, Trump said:
They've got room temperature IQs, that's the reality. But today I'd like to talk about Building 7, otherwise known as the smoking gun of 9/11. Forget the indestructible passports, forget the NORAD exercises, forget the Pentagon 270-degree downward cork-screw dive with zero wreckage. Building 7 should've raised eyebrows, but Alex Jones, national treasure, was the only one who had the eggs, the stones, the grapes to call it out. I hate to say it, but Alex Jones is right again. Put another nickel in the jar.
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: Screenshot of X.com by Lead Stories)
The video makes it clear in the very last second that it is not real with the disclosure "This is obviously fake, but let people dream."
The original video that was altered was from Trump's Oval Office session with the media in which he announced a trade agreement with the United Kingdom on Thursday, May 8, 2025.
