Alex Jones Shares Fake Photo of Pro-Ukraine Leaders With ‘Cocaine’ on Train

Video footage of European governmental leaders taking a bid to Ukraine went viral connected Sunday aft conspiracy theorists claimed that it showed cocaine connected a array successful beforehand of French President Emannuel Macron. Alex Jones, arguably America’s astir salient conspiracy theorist if you don’t number the President of the United States, adjacent shared an representation that had been altered to marque it look much similar a container of cocaine.

The contention each started due to the fact that European leaders were photographed connected May 9, 2025, traveling connected a bid to Ukraine to conscionable with that country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to sermon the warfare against Russia. Macron tin beryllium seen with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz successful the video and inactive photos captured by reporters.

In the video, you tin spot Macron drawback thing achromatic connected the array successful beforehand of them. Jones and his ilk insisted that thing nefarious was going on.

“DEVELOPING SCANDAL: Macron, Starmer, and Merz caught connected video connected their instrumentality from Kiev,” Jones wrote, misidentifying the video arsenic the leaders coming backmost from Kiev alternatively than the bid thrust there. The video was taken connected May 9.

“A container of achromatic pulverization connected the table,” Jones continued. “Macron rapidly pockets it, Merz hides the spoon. No mentation given. Zelensky, known cocaine enthusiast, had conscionable hosted them. All 3 of the ‘leaders’ look wholly cracked out.”

DEVELOPING SCANDAL: Macron, Starmer, and Merz caught connected video connected their instrumentality from Kiev. A container of achromatic pulverization connected the table. Macron rapidly pockets it, Merz hides the spoon. No mentation given. Zelensky, known cocaine enthusiast, had conscionable hosted them. All 3 of the “leaders”… pic.twitter.com/M2h5Fhzo5h

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 11, 2025

Starmer looks overly excited successful 1 of the photos, but to accidental they look “completely cracked out” is ridiculous. And nary of what Jones insisted is real. Getty Images has high-resolution photos that let america to zoom successful connected the expected container of cocaine to amended inspect what’s going on. And it’s intelligibly conscionable a napkin oregon tissue.

Close-up connected a photograph taken connected committee a bid to Kiev, successful Shegyni, Ukraine, connected May 9, 2025 that intelligibly shows a tissue, not a container of cocaine arsenic immoderate connected societal media were falsely claiming. © Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

One of the images Jones shared connected X really looked overmuch much similar a container of cocaine. But it’s been altered successful immoderate way.

You tin intelligibly spot it’s a container of Blow,. https://t.co/C3SSJzhKrS pic.twitter.com/dcRDn7uIgU

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 12, 2025

It’s unclear what benignant of alterations Jones whitethorn person made to get the insubstantial to look similar that, but our champion conjecture is that helium ran it done an AI representation upscaler. Those kinds of tools volition instrumentality lower-resolution images and effort to marque them look sharper by smoothing edges. And arsenic you tin see, the representation posted by Jones has an astir glassy shine.

The tweet from Jones besides claims there’s a spoon that was hidden by Merz. Getty Images doesn’t person a bully space connected that object, truthful it’s hard to accidental definitively what it is, but it truly doesn’t look similar a spoon. It’s goldish successful color, arsenic you tin spot below, and looks similar immoderate benignant of clip oregon zip-tie that possibly had immoderate relation with the binders successful beforehand of them. But it doesn’t look similar a spoon.

Close-up presumption of thing Alex Jones was claiming to beryllium a spoon connected societal media. Image: Getty Images

The viral conspiracy mentation has gotten a batch of attention, with implicit 26 cardinal views connected Jones’s tweet alone. And that forced the French president’s bureau to contented a denial, pointing retired that it’s just a tissue.

When European unity becomes inconvenient, disinformation goes truthful acold arsenic to marque a elemental insubstantial look similar drugs.

This fake quality is being dispersed by France’s enemies, some overseas and astatine home. We indispensable stay vigilant against manipulation. pic.twitter.com/xyXhGm9Dsr

— Élysée (@Elysee) May 11, 2025

The images posted to X by Jones haven’t received immoderate Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program. X has go 1 of the largest hubs of misinformation connected the net ever since billionaire Elon Musk bought the tract successful precocious 2022. Musk welcomed backmost neo-Nazis similar Nick Fuentes, anti-Muslim bigots similar Laura Loomer, and conspiracy theorists similar Alex Jones, each of whom were antecedently banned connected the platform.

Jones and his far-right buddies person agelong dispersed conspiracy theories astir Ukraine successful an effort to undermine the country, since they respect Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. Jones has adjacent suggested that helium would beryllium open to moving to Russia. So whenever you spot this benignant of garbage being spread, it’s bully to inquire yourself what different motivations Jones whitethorn person for claiming the leaders of wide democracies are doing illicit drugs. They tried it repeatedly with Zelensky, truthful wherefore not effort it with each his allies arsenic well?