Trump Says Video of Object Tossed Out of Window Was ‘Probably A.I.’—After White House Implied Otherwise

A video posted online on Monday of a black bag being heaved out of a second-story White House window was “probably AI-generated,” President Trump told reporters on Tuesday when asked about it.

Trump added that such a video couldn't be real because "you can't open the windows" in the White House. "They’re all heavily armored and bullet-proof,” he said.

Trump's comments on the viral video came hours after a White House official gave TIME a statement that implied the video’s content was real, and that it showed a a contractor doing “regular maintenance."

The video was originally posted on an Instagram account called “Washingtonianprobs” and spread widely on social media, prompting jokes about White House security protocol and speculation about what was being thrown out. It shows a person wearing white pants stepping a foot out onto a windowsill on the second floor of the White House and tossing down what appears to be a black plastic bag. Later someone tosses something long and white out the window. The second floor of the White House is where the President’s private residence is located.

“It was a contractor who was doing regular maintenance while the President was gone,” the White House official said in a statement in response to questions about the images.

President Trump spent Sunday and the Labor Day holiday on Monday at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia.

Trump's comments on the authenticity of the video came during an event at the Oval Office in which he took questions from reporters after announcing that U.S. Space Command headquarters was relocating from Colorado to Alabama.