Trump administration used fake/misleading footage to promote its immigration agenda

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/29/trump-administration-misleading-videos/

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The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a “battle for the soul of our nation” and working “day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital.”

There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida. The official’s sound bite about deportations in D.C. played over a clip from May showing detainees on a Coast Guard boat off the coast of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island 400 miles away.

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have used similarly misleading footage in at least six videos promoting its immigration agenda shared in the last three months, a Washington Post analysis found, muddying the reality of events in viral clips that have been viewed millions of times.

Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of Trump-targeted cities included footage from completely different states. One that claimed to show dramatic examples of past administrations’ failures instead featured border crossings and smuggling boats recorded during Trump’s first term.

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[mwmisses4289]

1. No! This administration lying?!? Say it isn't so!

Anyone really surprised?

[wcmagumba]

2. They are all lying sacks of shite...

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. yep. and their are youtubers that do that same. AI generated pics to promote anti immigration

[underpants]

4. Superficial vacant lying low life

Just like Trump

[Jbraybarten]

5. It's non stop propaganda with them