In May 2026, videos circulated alleging that Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, had mocked U.S. President Donald Trump at a G7 news conference in Puglia, Italy.
For instance, one video sharing the claim uploaded to YouTube on May 11 was titled "13 Seconds That Shook the G7 — Carney's Line That Triggered Global Laughter at Trump."
Snopes readers contacted us to ask whether these videos accurately reported on events at a G7 event or whether they were digital creations.
Crucially — and this was an immediate red flag — none of the videos actually showed footage of Carney mocking Trump, despite the fact that he supposedly did so publicly during a news conference. Instead, as shown below, an individual — ostensibly an analyst or geopolitical expert on some sort of video conference call — recounted the alleged events.
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So, we prompted search engines like DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo with phrases like "Mark Carney mocks Trump at G7" to search for credible evidence of the event, since it would absolutely have made news headlines if it really happened.
No such evidence exists. We've labeled the claim false as such.
Instead, evidence showed that the G7 leaders generally hold an in-person summit once every year in late May or early June. Though the video claimed Carney made his comments during a conference in Puglia, Italy, records showed that Italy last hosted in 2024, over a year before Carney became prime minister. (Canada hosted in 2025 and France will host in 2026).
We were also able to confirm that videos sharing this misinformation were generated using artificial intelligence tools. Every YouTube example of the claim reviewed by Snopes was explicitly labeled "Altered or synthetic content."
The videos themselves featured numerous signs of AI generation, including the presenters evincing unnatural blinking patterns, robotic movements and strange tones of voice.
The earliest example of the video we found (archived here) was posted to a YouTube channel called Breaking News Update on May 1. Reviewing that channel's history showed it was posting three or four videos each day, all making similar, AI-generated claims about Carney and Trump.
Snopes has debunked similar pieces of inauthentic media before. For example, in May, we traced the source of a fake video supposedly showing a court sentencing a man to 452 years in prison.