Is a video of Donald Trump touching and patting Bill Clinton's crotch authentic? No, that's not true: The first frame of the six-second clip is a real image of Trump and Clinton at a golf tournament in 2000 that was released by the Clinton Library in 2016. The rest of the video was created by an artificial intelligence tool, which is indicated by changes in background details compared to authenticated images of the same scene.
The video (archived here) was shared by the @NORCAL_icmag account on X on November 14, 2025. The caption read:
"BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL"
This is what the first frame of the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The photo of Trump and Clinton is an authentic image that documents an interaction between the two men at the U.S. Open Golf Tournament in Flushing Meadows, New York, in September 2000. It was one of several photographs released (archived here) by the Clinton Presidential Library on Friday, September 9, 2016.
(Image source: William J. Clinton Presidential Library)
Indications that the video was created by an artificial intelligence tool include the disappearance of a woman who is seen in the background between Trump and Clinton in the first frame.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The woman suddenly disappeared and is not in the background past the three-second mark.
Other hallucinations typical of AI-generated video is the change in the furniture in the background. The chair back changes design from the first frame as seen here:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
The chair back four seconds into the clip:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X.com)
