The audio allegedly featured Trump saying, "[We're] not releasing the Epstein files! F*** Marjorie Taylor Green. I don't care what you do. Start a f***ing war. Just don't let 'em get out. If I go down, I will bring all of you down with me."
In short, the audio was fake and created with OpenAI's Sora 2, an artificial-intelligence tool that allows users to create AI-generated videos with sound.
Finding the source of the fake Trump audio
A Facebook video — a clip later removed or made private on an unknown date — originally featured the fake Trump phone call audio and displayed two watermarks, including one for TikTok user @fresh_florida_air and another for Sora 2 user @bradbradt31. The @fresh_florida_air TikTok account, also removed on an unknown date, hosted numerous videos created with Sora 2, including the video of Trump yelling at staffers, posted on Nov. 16, 2025.
In a private TikTok message from November, the @fresh_florida_air user told Snopes the following:
To clarify, both the visuals and the audio in those videos are fully AI-generated creative elements. They're fictional concepts created solely for artistic experimentation and social commentary — not real footage, not real recordings, and not representations of actual events or statements. My intent is creative expression, not presenting anything as factual.
The same TikTok user also hosted a similar AI-generated video with fake phone call audio depicting Trump as saying, "I don't f***ing care how long this shutdown lasts. We will not lose to the Democrats. We will not release the Epstein files. I don't care if the entire country starves." The clip, posted Nov. 5, ended abruptly with Trump supposedly saying, "SNAP benefits can go to," with the sentence ending there.
Other videos on the @fresh_florida_air TikTok account — reviewed by Snopes prior to the account's removal — featured AI-generated visuals and audio showing people wearing Trump's signature red "Make America Great Again" hats in various situations.
For example, one clip depicted four shirtless men wearing "MAGA" hats drinking alcohol and boiling in a pot over a campfire, while gleefully talking in Southern accents about wishing to donate their Trump-provided government checks back to the president's "defense fund."
For further reading, we previously examined whether a video showed Trump singing a song titled "This Is Who Jesus Is to Me" while playing a piano on the North Lawn of the White House.