Old videos of President-elect Donald Trump and his next Cabinet picks have resurfaced in posts that attempt to falsely pass them off as speeches or current information. Here we list five misinformation related to the next US president.
Prior to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, different videos or news related to the Republican's past administration have been reused to pass them off as if they were something current and thus become misinformation.
While some videos seek to impersonate policies related to the new administration or current statements of “new decisions,” they are actually posts that are out of context, misleading, or false.
In VOA Verify We have compiled some of this misinformation to avoid falling into it:
1. A video claims that President Donald Trump proposes legalizing immigrants without crimes in 2025; It's misleading. A journalistic note from 2017 was taken up.
In TikTok and instagram A viral video has circulated again that claims: “The White House would be considering the option to legalize immigrants without crimes in 2025,” but this is misleading.
The videos have been taken up by alleged agents who provide migration services and first emerged from accounts of TikTok that pretend to be means like Telemundo and cnn. He clips most recent has more than 19,000 likes in the last two days.
In the publication, a news anchor indicates: “Today we begin with explosive news that could easily change the destiny of millions and millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Listen carefully: President Trump is contemplating the possibility of opening a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants as long as they have not committed crimes (…).” However, it is a video taken from 2017 with information in the headline manipulated on social networks.
A Google search on what is indicated in the audio of the video showed that it is a fragment of the newsreel Al Rojo Vivo from March 2017 of the television network, Telemundofrom when then-President Donald Trump – according to the media – was considering immigration reform. Other media such as cnn and The New York Times They also discussed the topic in 2017.
However, for his new government plan, the elected president proposes a plan of deportations massive. This misinformation has also circulated at other times in 2024 and has been denied by Reuters and AFP.
2. A video of Donald Trump where he does not rule out a military option with Venezuela is from 2017
After Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections, a video circulated that went viral, in which there is talk of a possible military option in Venezuela. However, this video is from 2017.
The video that began circulating on November 7, 2024, just a few days after being elected, continues on the X network and has more than 1 million views to date.
In VOA Verify We found that it is actually a statement from August 2017 that was taken from a newspaper article. So it was a publication out of context.
3. A video circulated in X where Donald Trump warns about a nuclear world war, but this clip is not recent, it is from 2023
After media reports about decisions made by the United States in the war in Russia and Ukraine this year, a video of President-elect Donald Trump went viral in November 2024 in which he assures that “we have never been so close to a nuclear Third World War.” that we are now”, however, this is a statement from the president in 2023.
The publication had more than 3 million views, but the video is out of context because it was prior to his nomination as a Republican presidential candidate.
What yes declared his team, was that President Donald Trump is “incredibly concerned” about the use of different weapons in Russia's Ukraine war, according to the person designated as National Security Advisor in his new cabinet.
4. Misleading: Senator Marco Rubio, chosen by Donald Trump as his Secretary of State, did not respond to Maduro in a video after the 2024 elections
Out-of-date videos circulated on social networks about the team of politicians that President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to lead his government.
In X and TikTok it was assured that Senator Marco Rubio, elected by the president-elect, Donald Trump as his Secretary of State, addressed and responded to a speech to the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, after the 2024 US elections, but it is about misinformation.
In the network publication, it is stated that the politician Marco Rubio responded to President Nicolás Maduro that “he has earned a terrible enemy in Donald Trump” after the 2024 elections in the United States. But this is misleading.
It was actually a statement dating back to 2019 and that was combined into a current video of President Maduro from 2024.
5. A measure to allow the entry of all Latino immigrants has not been signed before President-elect Donald Trump comes to power
After the victory of Republican Donald Trump as president-elect, videos began to circulate on social networks about alleged immigration policies before the arrival of the new administration.
A video on TikTok claimed that the current president, Joe Biden, issued a “new law to benefit all Latino immigrants before Trump takes power” and points out that the new measure “allows all Latino immigrants to enter the country in search for a better future”, but this is fake.
A spokesperson for the United States Department of Homeland Security, said to Voice of America in November 2024 that these were false claims. He indicated that people who attempt to enter the US illegally are subject to expulsion from the country under Title 8, a five-year ban on re-entry if they are expelled.
At that time he stated that there have been no changes in immigration laws and if there are adjustments they will be announced.
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