Why an AIDS Charity Made a Deepfake of Trump

Is this deepfake of President Trump too misleading? Here's why the charity that created the video is standing by it.

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00:00Today is a historic day.

00:03I have tremendous news.

00:06Today, we eradicated AIDS.

00:10Thank God.

00:11Thank you, Donald Trump.

00:30AIDS has already killed 35 million people around the world.

00:37It's huge.

00:39Today, there are 700,000 to 800,000 people who die every year

00:43due to a lack of access to medication.

00:44AIDS has already killed 35 million people around the world.

00:48It took 30 years to eradicate this horrible disease

00:52which killed so many people.

00:54So many.

00:55So sad.

00:56Unfortunately, we have to go through this today

01:00to raise the interest of the media and the general public.

01:03It's sad, but the fight against AIDS is not enough.

01:06We have to show our commitment and the reality of the cause

01:09to try to be a little more effective.

01:10Now, I have the feeling that the game was worth playing.

01:15The risk was worth taking.

01:16I have the feeling that we managed it with enough caution

01:21so that we did not play on the credibility or naivety of the public

01:28who were able to discover it.

01:29Now, what is clear is that the United States

01:31has been a very committed country in the fight against AIDS for a very long time.

01:34It is also the first contributor to the World AIDS Fund.

01:51But today, it's finished.

01:53All over.

01:55AIDS is finished.

01:58I made not just America great again,

02:00but the world, folks.

02:02Donald Trump did it.

02:04It's not the United States that we put on stage in this video.

02:08It's Donald Trump and the character.

02:10And we thought it was funny to take advantage of his personality,

02:14whether it is described or not,

02:16to put on stage, to give a little perspective to our fight.