In April 2026, online users alleged U.S. President Donald Trump posted and then deleted from his Truth Social account a video showing him participating in a blood ritual. Users shared a purported screen capture of the clip playing in the post.
In the video, a man standing behind Trump gathers blood out of a cauldron and drops the liquid on the president's forehead. Trump then recites something not in the English language — a moment some users described as a demonic and Satanic act.
In short, Trump did not share the video — a fake clip — on Truth Social.
Instead, someone used artificial intelligence to create the 10-second clip showing Trump and the blood ritual. Signs of inauthenticity in the video included the common 10-second AI duration and overly smooth, almost blurry, visuals.
Someone then prompted AI to generate the video's Truth Social post framing or used other digital editing tools to edit the clip into a fake post, with a posting time of 9:34 p.m. April 18, 2026. The end of the video features the watermark "SkylineReport generated."
Searches for a user by the same name located X user @SkylineReport's post (archived) containing the clip, shared at 4:00 a.m. EDT April 19. The post read:
Everyone, run for your lives. The s*** is about to hit the fan. Trump has gone insane.
Forty-seven Truth posts in under an hour. The guy has lost it. Hopefully he won't accidentally find the red button… or is that what he's looking at right now?
(@SkylineReport/X)
Another X user responded to @SkylineReport's post, referencing the user's bio, "You can't claim to be anti-disinformation and then not label satire." The @SkylineReport user replied with a screenshot of a faint "SkylineReport generated" label appearing near the end of the clip, telling the other user, "There's a label" — an admission of the user sharing the content with satirical intent.
The same user recently shared similar 10-second AI-generated videos and in the past had described the account's content as satire and political satire. As such, we determined that this claim originated as satire.
In an email to Snopes,
Researching the fake Trump Truth Social post
Snopes readers asked whether Trump truly briefly shared the Truth Social post with the fake video. For example, one inquired via email, "Did Trump post and then delete a video of blood being put on a forehead with devil music in the background playing? I've seen the claim multiple times on YouTube but cant find it elsewhere." One reader provided a link to a popular Threads post (archived).
We first noted no credible news media outlets reported about the matter. Had Trump posted such a video, outlets would have widely reported the news just like they did days earlier when he posted and then deleted an image depicting himself as Jesus Christ.
A reverse image search for the first several frames of the above Threads post's video located users sharing the content on Facebook (archived), Threads (archived), TikTok, X (archived), YouTube (archived) and other platforms.
Numerous points of evidence confirmed the fake video never appeared on Trump's Truth Social account. For example, Trump's Truth, a website archiving Trump's posts — including Trump's removed Jesus Christ depiction — did not host any record of the post, nor did the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or Roll Call's database of Trump's social media posts.
Some users, including one on Threads (archived), alleged the Trump's Truth website displayed two deleted videos from 9:34 p.m. April 18 — the same time appearing in the fake video post.
However, while the videos in those two posts did not play correctly on Trump's Truth, selecting "Original Post" revealed both posts were still live, began with fades from black and had nothing to do with the fake blood ritual video.
Another point of doubt was that users shared only one supposed screenshot of the alleged post, showing 136 "ReTruths" and 379 likes. One Threads user claimed to have captured their own screenshot. However, that image showed the same number of engagements as in the @SkylineReport post.
Video's placement is slightly off-center
Further researching the fake video post, we noted the post's formatting didn't match the appearance of Trump's genuine Truth Social posts. For example, the fake Trump post appeared as follows:
(@SkylineReport/X)
Videos shared to Truth Social, whether in the social platform's mobile app or on its website, span from the very left of the first number in the "ReTruth" count to the very right of the "M" in either "AM" or "PM." In the above fake post, the video appears several pixels left of where it should be.
That alignment can be seen in genuine video's positioning in the Truth Social app, from just to the left of the 4.08k "ReTruths" to just right of the "09:01 PM":
(Truth Social)
The same alignment can be seen on the Truth Social website:
(Truth Social)
For further reading, we have investigated numerous fake Trump Truth Social posts.
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