(This V2 of the video includes additional background music and a new first scene.)
This is a shallow fake video of Donald Trump reading from Hannah Arendt’s seminal book The Origins of Totalitarianism. He reads Section One of Chapter 11, "The Totalitarian Movement: Totalitarian Propaganda."
The video was created using available AI tools found online, including TopMediaAI for text-to-voice emulation, and Wav2Lip v5, a free-to-use open source software available through Google Colab.
The work was created by media artist and activist Joseph DeLappe.
Special thanks to creative and technical consultants Dennis Delgado and Remy Pijuan.
