Days after the public fallout between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump over the latter's Big Beautiful Bill, a video of Trump announcing a ban on the production of Tesla in the United States has gone viral.
In the video, added below, he says: "Today, I am here to announce that I will be banning the production of all Teslas in the United States of America, effective immediately. As everyone knows, Elon stabbed me in the back a few days ago, and lied about my involvement in the Epstein files, so I can't have that snake Elon making money in the country while I'm president. No one likes Tesla anyway unless you're a nerd. They catch fire and break down easily, so it's definitely not the best electric car out there." He also adds that he bought a Tesla to get Elon Musk's support for the election, but he now plans to sell for $69, because that's what it's worth.
The dramatic feud between Musk and Trump had led to a full-blown war of words on social media in the first week of June. A few days after his exit from the White House on May 28, Musk called the bill a 'disgusting abomination' and claimed it would significantly add to the country's debt. He even called for the President's impeachment and linked him to the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on X, which he later deleted. Meanwhile, Trump maintains that Musk's opposition is primarily owing to the proposed elimination of tax credits for electric vehicles in the bill, which would impact Tesla's business.
X users @Shamsher__Ali, @ExSecular and @zakayonoel37, among others, shared the video between June 8 and 9.
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Fact Check
Alt News found no credible news reports on any such announcement by Trump, which raised doubts regarding the authenticity of the video.
A closer look at the viral video also revealed discrepancies between the audio and Trump's lip movements. Besides that, we also noticed the American national flag pin on Trump's suit was inverted and a watermark of "@DANGEROUSAIRETURNS" on the right.
A quick search for @DANGEROUSAIRETURNS led us to an Instagram account with the same username. We found the viral video uploaded by this account on June 8, 2025. A closer look at content uploaded by this account indicates that it often shares AI-generated parody content.
We also found a YouTube channel by the same username. The channel's description clearly says it creates parody content using AI voice-overs.
We also ran the video through HIVE's AI detection tool. According to this, there is a 99.8% likelihood that the audio in the viral video was AI-generated.
To sum up, an AI-generated video of Donald Trump, in which he sounds a ban on the production of Tesla cars, is being shared as an actual announcement by the US President. At the time of writing this, no such ban has been announced.
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