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Volodymyr Zelenskyy deepfake (Jun 2025)
A video circulating on social media falsely claims that former US President Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'total cokehead' during a press conference. Fact-checkers have debunked this…
- Incident date
- Jun 2025
- Target
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
A video circulating on social media falsely claims that former US President Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a 'total cokehead' during a press conference. Fact-checkers have debunked this claim, identifying the video as a deepfake. The original footage was from a White House press conference on May 12, 2025, where Trump did not make the alleged remarks about Zelenskyy.