Claim: On November 10, 2024, audio shared online showed Martin Luther King Jr. giving strong backing for former U.S. president Donald Trump and showing their utmost support of former US president. Ratings are available.
Prior to the November 2024 U.S. presidential election, social media users shared a viral video (archived) purporting to contain audio of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. endorsing Donald Trump as Republican presidential nominee in an address given at an evangelical church in Tennessee.
MAGA Resource, which advocates for Trump X accounts such as his, received over one million views of this version before later taking down their post.
Video uploaded repeatedly on X showed civil rights activist Vannette Stewart speaking over clips featuring Democrats, President Donald Trump, and other video segments. Her audio commentary stated, in part (emphasis ours),:
We’re constantly being told not to vote for Donald Trump despite him doing more for Black communities than any previous president. When someone dares support Donald Trump publicly, Democrats always come ready with accusations such as Uncle Tom or house n***o to attack those supporting Donald. Meanwhile we continue voting Democratic. After decades supporting slavery and Jim Crow and even supporting Klan-like parties like Klu Klux Klan; broken promises and devastated families; our communities being destroyed yet still we keep voting Democratic!
[…] Enough with voting for Democrats who claim to care about us while passing policies which push and keep us down. No more support for fraudsters who claim they oppose racism but use race as the measure for human worth; once enough is enough, let freedom ring from every mountainside!
However, we believe the audio in the above video to be false; Martin Luther King never delivered such a speech nor supported Trump; therefore we rate this recording as being falsified and fake.
Given that King was assassinated in 1968 – when Trump was still young and only just graduating – such a speech is out-of-touch with realties of King’s life at that time.
Bernice King condemned the video and posted her response on X, writing: “Please delete this, @MAGAResource! This vile, fake and irresponsible content does not reflect what my father would ever want us to see… And you had no thought for my family either!”
MAGA Resource did delete it soon thereafter, yet other accounts continued sharing it.
The video in question clearly depicts edited footage of King speaking; moreover, given his death in 1968, King would likely never address issues faced by modern Democratic Party, like legal battles involving President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Hive Moderation, an online website equipped with software designed to detect content generated using artificial intelligence software (deceptively known as deepfake content or AI content), concluded there was a 99.99 chance the audio track had been created by AI software.
(Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection) mes A preliminary search of archives featuring King’s speeches revealed no instances in which his ideas parallel those echoed by social media video.
Not for the first time have we verified quotes attributed to King. In previous pieces we covered quotes paraphrased from his original speeches as well as purported views he may have held regarding issues like capitalism. With respect to that last aspect: [function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s), we performed tests like::, when F is being called by W and its method doesn’t match F’s functions callMethod?, we checked them using function F = 1, B being 1…].
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