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stated on January 28, 2025 in an Instagram post:

A video shows “people around the world” who are “protesting because Donald Trump is the president.”

False

Does this video show 2025 anti-Trump protests around the world? No, it’s from 2018

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  • The video shows London protesters opposing President Donald Trump’s first-term visit to the United Kingdom in 2018.
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Tens of thousands of people filled London’s streets, waving “#Dump Trump” signs as a giant inflatable baby resembling President Donald Trump hovered over the crowd, a Jan. 28 Instagram video shows.

“People around the world are protesting because Donald Trump is the president. The news is reporting nothing about this,” the Instagram post said.

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False rating, Anti-Trump 2018 London protests,  7/13/18
Figure 1: False rating, Anti-Trump 2018 London protests, 7/13/18

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But the video does not show footage of global protests after Trump took office as the 47th president Jan. 20. A reverse-image search showed the video included clips from a July 13, 2018, protest, at which demonstrators opposed Trump’s first-presidential-term visit to the U.K..

We rate the claim that a video shows “people around the world” who are “protesting because Trump is the president False.