WHAT WAS CLAIMED
Donald Trump has been ordered to deport his wife and children.
OUR VERDICT
False. There is no evidence of a US Supreme Court ruling or an executive order to that effect.
AAP FACTCHECK - US President Donald Trump was not ordered to deport his own wife, despite claims circling on social media.
There is no evidence that the Supreme Court has made such a ruling or that a presidential executive order to that effect has been issued.
The claim appears in a Facebook video from July 11, 2025, from an account that regularly draws hundreds of thousands of views to its posts, many of which contain false content and are generated using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
"Breaking news: The US Supreme Court has just ordered President Donald Trump to deport his wife and children," a voiceover, which sounds AI-generated, claims. The voice later continues: "After a thorough investigation they found that Trump's grandparents and Melania's grandparents came to the country illegally, without documentation…
"The new executive order states that Melania Trump and her children must leave the country immediately unless Trump resigns."
The claims are false, with no published news reports or records of either a Supreme Court ruling ordering Mr Trump to deport his family or an executive order stating they must leave the US.
Executive orders are written directives from the US president, so it is unlikely Mr Trump would issue one against his own family. The Facebook account has recently posted other false claims, including video news reports that appear genuine at first glance but are actually generated with AI tools.
One video uses AI-generated imagery of Mr Trump sitting up in a hospital bed to claim he has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which is untrue.
AI giveaways include tubes appearing out of nowhere on Mr Trump's upper body.
Another clip appears to show Texas Governor Greg Abbott saying he supports Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "deporting Mexicans who crossed the border to help during the floods".
The clip, however, has been altered, with audio dubbed over footage of Mr Abbott speaking in the wake of Texas' recent floods, AFP FactCheck reported. Another recent post falsely claims that rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs died in detention while "awaiting trial for serious charges", which is also false.
Combs was present in court when found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. He is in custody and is due to be sentenced on October 3, 2025, and there have been no credible reports of his death.
Other videos posted by the account purport to show extreme weather events hitting cities in the US, such as one labelled "New York floods". While extreme weather did cause flooding in New York in early July 2025, the footage is actually a horizontally flipped video of floods in China after Typhoon Doksuri in August 2023, as reported by Sky News.
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