A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and Twitter which claim it shows that US President Donald Trump tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The post’s Burmese-language caption translates to English as: “Trump is now positive”., The video purports to show a Fox News channel report. The White House can be seen in the clip., In the video’s audio, a journalist can be heard saying; “Brought to you just a moment ago, Fox News alert …..the White house medical team confirming President Trump has confirmed positive for the coronavirus.”, The chyron at the bottom of the frame reads: "TRUMP TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19"., The same video was also shared here, here and here on Facebook; and here, here and here on Twitter with a similar claim., It was also shared with similar claims on Twitter in Indonesian\xa0here\xa0and in Arabic\xa0here., The claim is false; the video has been edited., "A keyword search found a longer version of the video published here by Fox News on the networks\xa0YouTube channel on May 7, 2020.", , The video’s title reads: “Trump valet tests positive for COVID-19”., The video’s description reads: “White House medical team confirmed that valet for President Trump has tested positive for COVID-19. The President and Vice President have since been tested and results were negative.”, The video in the misleading post partly corresponds with the Fox News video from the three-second to the 13-second mark., But a close analysis of the video in the misleading post reveals that at the nine-second mark, the audio has been edited to remove the words “a valet” from the phrase “a valet to President Trump”., The video in the misleading posts also includes a doctored chyron. The word “VALET” has been removed from the original Fox News banner which stated: “TRUMP VALET TEST POSITIVE FOR COVID-19”., Below is a screenshot comparison of keyframes from the video in the misleading post (L) and the original Fox News video (R):, In early May 2020, the news about one of Trump’s personal valets testing positive for the coronavirus was also reported here by UK newspaper The Guardian and here by US newspaper The Washington Post., Shortly afterwards, Trump tested negative for the virus, according to this report from The Associated Press published on May 7. Trump also said publicly on May 7 that he had tested negative., , Copyright © AFP 2017-2020.  All rights reserved.  Users can access and consult this website and use the share features available for personal, private, and non-commercial purposes.  Any other use, in particular any reproduction, communication to the public or distribution of the content of this website, in whole or in part, for any other purpose and/or by any other means, without a specific licence agreement signed with AFP, is strictly prohibited.  The subject matter depicted or included via links within the Fact Checking content is provided to the extent necessary for correct understanding of the verification of the information concerned.  AFP has not obtained any rights from the authors or copyright owners of this third party content and shall incur no liability in this regard.  AFP and its logo are registered trademarks.
This video has been edited -- the original Fox News report stated one of President Trump’s valets tested positive for COVID-19 | AFP Fact Check