A video purporting to show United States President Donald Trump criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the 2002 Gujarat riots and calling him a killer is a Deepfake.
BOOM found that part of the audio has been overlaid using AI in the video. In the original meeting between the two heads of state, Trump had called Modi a ‘killer’ and an ‘angel’ and was actually praising his negotiation skills.
The Claim:
The 39-second video was shared by several social media handles claiming that Trump called out Modi for the violence that occurred in Gujarat in 2002.
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What We Found:
1) Livestream of G7 Summit
The annual G7 summit took place from June 15 to 17, 2026, in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France. The summit was livestreamed by the official White House account on YouTube. At the 5:51 mark, Trump can be seen calling Modi "a beautiful man" who is also "killer" which catches people by surprise. There is no mention of the Gujarat riots or his ban from the US in the entire livestream.
Additionally, Trump's facial expressions and body movements become bizarrely still when he says "he killed millions in Gujarat back in 2002 for which he was banned in US", which is often the case with deepfakes.
2) Results from AI Detection Tool
We ran the video through Hiya's deepfake detector, and the analysis indicated that the audio was likely a deepfake, assigning it an authenticity score of 11 out of 100.
Three days of inter-communal violence began in Gujarat in February 2002. The burning of a train in Godhra the day before, which caused the deaths of 58 Hindu pilgrims, instigated the violence. The violent outbreak, which continued for over a year, led to over 1000 deaths, most of whom were Muslim.