Trump clip altered to spread false Ohio train derailment claim

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Trump clip altered to spread false Ohio train derailment claim

Donald Trump visited the site of a major freight train accident in the US state of Ohio in 2023 to criticize the handling of the incident by the Biden administration. But social media posts claiming the US president recently promised a new investigation into the disaster from the Oval Office are false; they share an altered video first spread by an account which says its content is satirical.

“Trump just said the quiet part out loud. Again,” claims a May 8, 2025

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. In the video, Trump appears to say: “East Palestine, Ohio. It was the largest environmental terror attack in world history and it was an inside job.”

He goes on to threaten the death penalty for anyone found responsible for the 

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which set off a days-long fire and resulted in the release of hazardous chemicals including

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Screenshot of a post on X taken on May 16, 2025

The claim echoes 

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which circulated just following the toxic spill, with many implying that the derailment was

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Following a year-long investigation, the

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said a rail car’s defective wheel bearing caused the derailment and found no evidence of foul play (archived 

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). In its June 2024 report the agency 

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: “Overheated wheel bearings are a common cause of rail accidents” and the systems in place to detect an issue did not warn the crew to slow down before it was too late (archived

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).

The US government reached a more than

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with Norfolk Southern Railway Company “to address and pay for the damage caused by the Feb. 3, 2023, train derailment” (archived

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Trump has

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the Biden administration’s handling of the disaster,

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with residents of East Palestine as he campaigned for the presidency. But the clip which seems to show Trump discussing the ****** from the Oval Office is not authentic.

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shows it is a digitally manipulated version of a May 8

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made by the US president. AFP photos and

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of Trump

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match the social media posts, with the president flanked by US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick (L), Vice President JD Vance (2ndL) and British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson.

A review of the official

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of the oval office appearance, shows Trump makes no mention of the Ohio rail incident (archived

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DC, on May 8, 2025

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The @MaverickDarby account description on X says its posts are “mostly satire,” but keyword searches reveal the altered clip spread to

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without similar

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Just days after the post on the train ******, the @MaverickDarby account 

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, but this time to spread unfounded claims about Covid-19.

In it, the president appears to disparage former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, who was

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to help lead the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a polarizing role that led to 

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and left the immunologist the target of unfounded 

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Screenshot of a post from X taken May 12, 2025

However, this clip, which spread elsewhere

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and on

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, ends with a card admitting it is fake.

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X taken May 12, 2025

Marisha GOLDHAMER

Marisha GOLDHAMER

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