Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show The "Strange Behavior Of A Woman" At The White House

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  • by: Ed Payne
Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show The "Strange Behavior Of A Woman" At The White House Slow Motion

Does a video from the White House show a woman acting strangely? No, that's not true: The grainy images are from a slow-motion version of a video taken at a White House news conference in December 2025 announcing that Michael Dell, the CEO of Dell Technologies, and his wife, Susan, would donate more than $6 billion to soon-to-be-opened Trump Accounts, federal savings accounts for children born from January 2025 through the end of 2028. The woman in the video is Susan Dell and the slowed-down video makes her movements look unusual.

The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on X on Feb. 17, 2026. The text in post read:

Strange behavior of a women during a
press conference at the white house...💀

@grok It went viral... Who is she ??

This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:

Susan Dell.png

(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of X)

A reverse image search (archived here) linked the post to a December 2, 2025, news conference at the White House that included President Donald Trump, several cabinet members and the Dells. A separate video (archived here) shows a similar scene from the same news conference but from a slightly different angle. It appears at about the 35:30 mark.

In the grainy video from post on X, Susan Dell's eyes appear to be blank or look empty. The C-SPAN video shows her eyes more clearly.

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  Ed Payne

Ed Payne is a staff writer at Lead Stories. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist as part of CNN’s coverage of 9/11. Ed worked at CNN for nearly 24 years with the CNN Radio Network and CNN Digital. Most recently, he was a Digital Senior Producer for Gray Television’s Digital Content Center, the company’s digital news hub for 100+ TV stations. Ed also worked as a writer and editor for WebMD. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, Ed is the author of two children’s book series: “The Daily Rounds of a Hound” and “Vail’s Tales.” 

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