Does a viral picture of an inflatable JD Vance show what the White House Halloween decorations looked like in October 2025? No, that's not true: The image was not an authentic photograph. It originated from an AI-generated video showing such unrealistic scenes as a running inflatable JD Vance or a woman flying a broomstick.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on October 30, 2025. It opened:
🔥🚨BREAKING: The White House Halloween decorations just got leaked to the public. A giant inflatable JD Vance can be spotted posted in front.
This is what the image shared in the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/dom_lucre/status)
On the day of the post's publication, which was October 30, 2025, the president and the first lady hosted a trick-or-treating event. The footage of the event was published on the White House website here (archived here) and here (archived here), and the photographs were uploaded here (archived here). But the figure of giant inflatable JD Vance was nowhere to be seen:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of page at the White House website)
A reverse image search showed that the still image reviewed in this fact check originated from an AI generated video (archived here) published earlier that day on X. In it, an inanimate object -- the inflatable "Vance" -- got up from its knees and ran, as a woman from the bottom left corner jumped on a broomstick and flew away:
(Source: keyframes from video at x.com/JohnMcCloy/status/1983950356389249385 produced via InVid)
