Fake image shows Trump, Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with fists up in front of CCP flag
Fake image shows Trump, Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang with fists up in front of CCP flag
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Publish Date: 2026-05-15 16:23:00
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An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang raising their fists in front of the Chinese Communist Party flag.
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In May 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump made a state visit to China accompanied by prominent U.S. tech executives including billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. During the visit, an image (archived) spread online claiming to show the three men standing with raised fists in front of the Chinese Communist Party flag.
The image shows Trump, Musk and Huang — in matching dark suits and crimson ties with their right fists raised — in front of a red flag with a yellow hammer and sickle, which is the emblem of the ruling Communist Party of China. The image had a CCTV logo for the state broadcaster as well as a text chyron at the bottom.
(Image via X use @P_Kallioniemi)
The above image is fake. There is no authentic photograph showing the three men posing in front of this flag. We also found several flaws in the image indicating that it was generated by artificial intelligence or created using other digital editing means.
The first problem in the image is that the three men are wearing identical suits, with the same color tie. Getty Images photographs of Trump (wearing different–colored ties over the two days), Musk (not wearing a crimson tie) and Huang (also not wearing a crimson tie) taken over the two-day trip at events where all three were together showed that at no point were they in matching outfits.
The men’s closed fists are also blurred, with Musk’s thumb appearing to merge into his finger’s knuckle (AI…
