Mystery deepens over weird video of objects thrown from Donald Trump's White House window

Donald Trump claimed a video apparently showing items being thrown out of a window at the White House is an AI fake - despite the White House confirming it was real.

The clip, which has been circulating on social media, shows a dark item being thrown from an open window on the second floor of the White House, where the President's residence is located.

A White House official yesterday told Time Magazine: "It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone."

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But asked about it during an Oval Office Q&A, Trump immediately dismissed it as a forgery.

A reporter then showed Trump the video, but he insisted it could not be real as the windows of the White House are sealed, heavy and bulletproof.

He said the video was AI, adding, "They create things."

"If something happens that's really bad, maybe I'll have to just blame AI," he said.

It was not clear why there was a discrepancy between the White House official's version of events and the President's.

Trump went on to describe AI as "bigger than the internet. It's like the internet plus three or four other things."

Asked if he had seen the weekend social media posts indicating he was dead, the president initially looked blankly at the reporter, answering: "Really? I didn't see that."

Trump said despite a lack of public appearances up until Tuesday that he did "numerous" interviews and had some "pretty poignant" posts on his social media site. The president said he went to visit "some people" at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia as well.

"I was very active over the weekend," Trump said.

There had been widespread speculation about the President's health over the long weekend, which included yesterday's Labor Day bank holiday.

Trump also indicated he had decided to send troops into Chicago, but refused to say when.

"We're going in," he said, but added. "I didn't say when."

Trump said he'd like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, to call him and say "send in the troops."

"If the governor of Illinois would call up, call me up, I would love to do it. Now, we're going to do it anyway. We have the right to do it," Trump said.

He said he has an "obligation to protect this country, and that includes intervention in Chicago and Baltimore, despite local opposition.