On Aug. 5, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump was spotted by the press walking around the roof of the White House. That same day, purported footage from that incident claimed to show Trump dancing to the song "YMCA" while on the roof.
Many people online assumed the video was real because it had the C-SPAN logo on the bottom right. One post stated, "The President of the United States is unfit for office."
However, the above video is fake and clearly appears to be AI-generated. C-SPAN footage from the network's website does not show Trump dancing.
We looked closely at the full video of Trump walking on the roof on the C-SPAN website. While he calls down to the press, responds to questions from afar, and even raises his fist a few times, he does not dance. There is also no accompanying music in the background.
According to news reports, Trump was on the roof for around 20 minutes. We also looked at footage from other outlets, including an 18-minute long video from Forbes, and found no evidence of the dancing:
The earliest example of the dancing video appeared on X account drefanzor memes, which describes itself as an account that posts "doctored videos."
We have frequently fact-checked fake or miscaptioned footage and photos claiming to show Trump dancing. In one instance, we reported on a miscaptioned video of a man dancing on musical variety show "Soul Train" in the 1980s who was incorrectly identified as Trump. In another, we found a purported photograph of Trump dancing with a teen girl on Epstein's island was actually AI-generated.