This video is a 2017 comedy sketch of an actor vandalising an Oval Office set
- This article is more than one year old.
- Published on November 25, 2020 at 05:00
- 2 min read
- By AFP Hong Kong
Copyright © AFP 2017-2025. Any commercial use of this content requires a subscription. Click here to find out more.
The video was published here on Bilibili on November 8, 2020. It has been viewed more than 1,600 times.
The post’s simplified Chinese-language caption translates to English as: “Donald Trump lost the election and smashed the office at the White House”.
The post circulated after Democratic challenger Joe Biden won the 2020 US election, as AFP reported here.
The video was also published on Bilibili here, here and here, on YouTube here and on online sites such as here, alongside a similar claim.
Some viewers appeared confused as to whether or not the footage in fact shows Trump.
Their comments translate to English as: “True or false?”; “Is it an actor? Not the real person [Trump]?”
The claim, however, is false.
A keyword search found this YouTube video uploaded on the UK channel of US cable channel Comedy Central on July 21, 2017.
The video is headlined: “The President Smashes Everything - The President Show | Comedy Central”.
The President Show is a television show produced by Comedy Central. The Trump character in the show is played by Anthony Atamanuik.
The same video as the clip in the misleading Bilibili post starts at the three-minute 48-second mark of the YouTube video.
Below are two screenshot comparisons between the Bilibili footage (L) and the YouTube video published by Comedy Central (R):
The video was also fact checked by Chinese state media fjsen.com‘s fact-checking team here.
Is there content that you would like AFP to fact-check? Get in touch.
Contact us
