Claim:
A leaked phone call audio recording authentically features U.S. President Donald Trump panicking to White House staffers about the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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A rumor circulated online in November 2025 that a purportedly leaked phone call audio recording featured U.S. President Donald Trump panicking to White House staffers about the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The recording allegedly featured Trump saying, “[We’re] not releasing the Epstein files! F*** Marjorie Taylor Green. I don’t care what you do. Start a f***ing war. Just don’t let ’em get out. If I go down, I will bring all of you down with me.”
Users posting on Facebook (archived), Instagram (archived) and TikTok (archived) shared the audio in various videos, including some clips purportedly showing visuals of the White House and staffers.
In short, the audio was fake and created with OpenAI’s Sora 2, an artificial-intelligence tool that allows users to create AI-generated videos with sound. OpenAI released Sora 2 on Sept. 30, 2025, including audio capabilities for the first time.
Finding the source of the fake Trump audio
A Facebook video featuring the fake Trump phone call audio displayed two watermarks, including one for TikTok user @fresh_florida_air and another for Sora 2 user @bradbradt31. The @fresh_florida_air TikTok account hosted numerous videos created with Sora 2, including the video (archived) of Trump yelling at staffers, posted on Nov. 16.
Snopes privately messaged the TikTok account @fresh_florida_air, as well as @bradbradt31 via Instagram, to confirm they created the video and audio, and to verify whether both accounts belonged to the same person. We will update this article if we receive a response.
The same TikTok user also hosted a similar AI-generated video (archived) with fake phone call audio depicting Trump as saying, “I don’t f***ing care how long this shutdown lasts. We will not lose to the Democrats. We will not release the Epstein files. I don’t care if the entire country starves.” The clip, posted Nov. 5, ended abruptly with Trump supposedly saying, “SNAP benefits can go to,” with the sentence ending there.
Other AI-generated videos on the @fresh_florida_air TikTok account featured people wearing Trump’s signature red “Make America Great Again” hats in various situations.
For example, one clip (archived) depicted four shirtless men wearing “MAGA” hats drinking alcohol and boiling in a pot over a campfire, while gleefully talking in Southern accents about wishing to donate their Trump-provided government checks back to the president’s “defense fund.”
For further reading, we previously examined whether a video showed Trump singing a song titled “This Is Who Jesus Is to Me” while playing a piano on the North Lawn of the White House.
