Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trump's racist AI video

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The result was delete‎. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 10:53, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trump's racist AI video

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An AI video uploaded to social media does not need its own Wiki page and while the contents of the video are not PC, it's inappropriate for the title of the page to claim it was 'racist'. The article in itself is very poorly written, mostly because it's not the type of thing that should ever be in article form. Aesurias (talk) 04:56, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Circular logic. kencf0618 (talk) 00:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom reasoning. SnowyRiver28 (talk) 05:41, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Disgusting... Racist... Vulgar... Deep Fake... Mocking... Racist... Deranged..." Take your pick. kencf0618 (talk) 00:36, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: I mean there's more than one at this point, right? JTtheOG (talk) 05:58, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 06:10, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Per WP:NOTNEWS. Svartner (talk) 06:36, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Internet and United States of America. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 10:55, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It has been covered by the mainstream press, and not just the political press, in the context of the putative government shutdown. Namely the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Economic Times of India, NYT, Forbes, and (in passing) the WSJ. kencf0618 (talk) 00:27, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"in the context of the putative government shutdown" is the important bit here. PERHAPS it gets a passing mention in an article about potential government shutdown, but there is zero reason for an AI twitter video to have its own Wiki page. Trump posts offensive AI videos all the time, they receive national media coverage, but they have zero lasting notability.

See: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-gaza-ai-video-propaganda-machine-rcna194097 and https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/trumps-team-posting-ai-portraits-clicking-126032715 Aesurias (talk) 02:02, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think you've put your finger on it here. As White House messaging it's definitely a part of the background to the shutdown. kencf0618 (talk) 02:56, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Not enough coverage that indicates notability. Bambifan111 (talk) 11:18, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, as the article was written from a negative POV and is not notable. GrinningIodize (talk) 13:11, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure how could it be written in a positive POV per se, but there's definitely many words that are too biased Aesurias (talk) 00:26, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NTRUMP. UnregisteredBiohazard ^{talk to me} 19:47, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete TRUMPCRUFT Metallurgist (talk) 21:50, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: International and domestic coverage; bizarre component of immigration, health care, and government shutdown issues; unprecedented AI-generated video from The White House putting words in the mouth of a sitting senator. kencf0618 (talk) 00:05, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not remotely unprecedented, Trump releases bizarre AI all the time. Regardless, that wouldn't be a factor in keeping it anyway.

WP:NOTNEWS , WP:NTRUMP (Not every single thing Donald Trump does deserves an article) Aesurias (talk) 00:28, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There has been considerable coverage (see above), and directly mocking your political opponents with deep fake technology putting words in their mouths is unprecedented. Do you have any examples? kencf0618 (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some of Trump's AI videos about:

Gaza - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-gaza-ai-video-propaganda-machine-rcna194097

Himself - https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/trumps-team-posting-ai-portraits-clicking-126032715

Obama - https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2025/07/21/trump-scary-social-rants/85310856007/

QAnon medbeds - https://www.smh.com.au/world/trump-shares-bizarre-ai-video-promoting-medbed-conspiracy-20250929-p5myn3.html Aesurias (talk) 02:14, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

None of these are examples of putting words in someone's mouth (AI faux speech), and I've edited Medbed. kencf0618 (talk) 03:07, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nominator, WP:NOTNEWS, and WP:NTRUMP. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 00:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge somewhere. Worth mentioning? Sure. Worth an article? Nah. Hyperbolick (talk) 06:48, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: per WP:NOTNEWS and WP:NTRUMP. MidnightMayhem (talk) 08:22, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as per JTtheOG. Unless we're going to make a list of every racist and/or AI social media post by the subject about eating cats and dogs and the Epstein client list, this is run of the mill. Bearian (talk) 08:57, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is desensitization and notability deflation. And Trump fatigue. As editors we must keep our historical perspective. kencf0618 (talk) 17:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, AARGH!! Not everything Trump does needs an article. It's just bias towards recent events that keeps this stuff around. -Samoht27 (talk) 18:50, 1 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with 2025 United States federal government shutdown: While I think this is notable in the context of the shutdown, there isn't enough information here for it to warrant its own article. Chess enjoyer (talk) 16:25, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Already done, given that that's the context. kencf0618 (talk) 19:35, 2 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agree with this as page to merge to. Hyperbolick (talk) 00:19, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: Trump posts deranged AI slop like every month now, this post will most likely just be something the media gets mad about for about a week before moving on. WP:TRUMPCRUFT and WP:FLASHINTHEPAN.

Thegoofhere (talk) 15:03, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete With content merged to appropriate articles, including 2025 United States federal government shutdown and Mexican hat dance, there is no reason to keep this around. There was the medbed video before it (although it is not clearly racist) that never got its own article, and in the coming weeks there may be another racist AI video from Trump's social media posts. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 19:00, 5 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTNEWS. To add some historical perspective, other presidents have had similar non-articles written about them, e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barack Obama fly swatting incident. Geschichte (talk) 19:49, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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