Secret Service probes Iranian AI video outlining Trump motorcade routes, assassination opportunities

The U.S. Secret Service is examining a video that appears to have been produced by Iranian operatives, which aims to identify opportunities to assassinate President Donald Trump, including purported motorcade routes used by his protective details in Florida and New York.

Video Content and Distribution

The video, sent to Nextgov/FCW by a U.S. government official, is titled “Where to Kill Trump?!” — written in a blood-stained font alongside a bloody silhouette of the president’s side profile. It features high-quality, likely AI-generated graphics in red, black, and white, depicting people, buildings, vehicles, roads, and other infrastructure.

The footage claims to show how the president and his Secret Service detail commute:

• From Palm Beach International Airport in Florida to his Mar-a-Lago estate
• From LaGuardia Airport to Trump Tower in New York City

The video has been removed from several sites since reports surfaced around the end of last week.

Secret Service Response

A Secret Service spokesperson confirmed the agency is “aware of it and we’re looking into it” during a brief phone interview on Friday.

In a follow-up email, the spokesperson added:

“Protecting the president and those under our protection is a responsibility we take extremely seriously. While we do not comment on the specifics of protective intelligence, our teams work around the clock to assess real-time information and intelligence, ensuring our protective operations remain layered, adaptive, and fully aligned to address the climate.”

Narration and Details

The video is narrated in Persian with English captions. The captions state:

“This is no ordinary report. Based on the most complex security protocols between 2024 and 2026, Donald Trump’s routine movements in the US have been gathered and decoded.”

Running nearly three minutes long, the video describes:

• The apparent core arrangement of the president’s motorcade
• Routes supposedly taken in each location
• How Trump is escorted from Mar-a-Lago to the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach during weekends

Nextgov/FCW is withholding specific details of the routes, road closures, and security measures described in the video, on grounds that, if accurate, it may expose protective details that could put officials in danger.

Approximately halfway through the video, the captions identify a specific location along one of the purported routes, stating it “seems like a very suitable location for the free people of the world!”

At the end of the video, as it describes supposed street closure arrangements around Trump Tower, the captions tell viewers: “Stay tuned … we are going to get even closer than this.”

Origin and Circulation

It is not immediately clear:

• How widely the video has been circulated
• Who specifically produced it
• When it was completed and disseminated
• Whether more follow-up videos exist

Some social media posts last week attributed the clip to Iran’s state-backed Fars News Agency, though this could not be immediately verified.

Potential Implications

If the video’s contents are sufficiently precise, it could raise concerns that Iran has expanded its surveillance and targeting efforts against the president, potentially revealing details about the routes and protective measures used by his Secret Service detail.

Tehran has long threatened to assassinate Trump in retaliation for the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force. Those calls from Iranian leaders have intensified since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike earlier this year that began the ongoing Iran war.

Travel Patterns

The president makes regular trips to Florida to stay at his Mar-a-Lago estate, often landing at the Palm Beach airport, now officially named President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

A Nextgov/FCW analysis of White House travel pool reports shows:

• The president appears to have made only two trips to New York City via LaGuardia last year
• Throughout 2026, Trump made visits to New York, but they appear not to have involved LaGuardia as a destination airport

Background on Secret Service Protection

Former presidents receive lifelong Secret Service protection. In 2024, while out of office, Trump regularly traveled by Secret Service motorcade from Trump Tower to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse for his criminal hush-money trial. Trump also used his private Boeing 757, nicknamed “Trump Force One,” to travel between Florida and New York during the trial, including flights into LaGuardia.