A POST ON social media suggesting that US president Donald Trump has cancelled celebrations of Pride Month is based on a deepfake video.

An image that is from a still of a video featuring Trump was shared last week on Facebook. The image shows a close up of the US president’s face, with a caption on the image stating: “Trump cancels Pride Month”.

A post alongside the image reads: “Well according to TikTok, Donald Trump has cancelled pride month. It’s cancelled due to potential killer tornadoes that have been sweeping the country, it’s okay Trump is looking out for your safety”.

According to the US Libraries of Congress, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is celebrated each year in the month of June to honour the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan.

The Stonewall riots were a series of demonstrations that began in June 1969 following a raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York City. The demonstrations marked a turning point in the fight for right for LGBTQ people. 

Deepfake

Donald Trump has signed a number of Executive Orders actively targeting transgender people since his return to the office of the presidency, resulting in a hardening policy in relation to transgender rights.

For example, in February the US National Parks Services erased mentions of transgender people from a website about the Stonewall National Monument.

However, Donald Trump has not “cancelled pride month”. There are no credible media reports or statements from the Trump White House suggesting that the president made any such statement cancelling Pride month.

The Facebook post seems to be based on a deepfake video shared on the social media platform X last week (19 May 2025). The video was shared by the account Maverick Alexander, which states in its bio that it shares “mostly satire”.

In the video, Trump sits in the Oval Office, and states that he is announcing that Pride Month “is cancelled”, before going on to make crude comments about gay sex. The end of the video is captioned: “This is a deepfake, but let people dream”.

The video was viewed 2.4 million times, and had received 76,ooo “likes” at the time of publication. The still in the above Facebook post appears to be taken from this video, which is verifiably fake.

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