AI deep scan Verdict: this is not a legit documentary photo based on the uploaded file and web provenance. Best read: a reposted, low-quality meme/AI-or-Photoshop composite, not evidence of a real meeting.
File / metadata scan
The uploaded image is a JPEG, 1536×875, about 126 KB, RGB/sRGB. It has:
No EXIF camera data.
No camera model, lens, timestamp, GPS, shutter, ISO, or original capture info.
No XMP / C2PA / Content Credentials provenance.
No visible generator/software tags like Photoshop, Midjourney, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc.
Only basic JFIF ICC color profile data.
That means this is not an original camera file. It has almost certainly been downloaded/re-encoded/screenshot/cropped through a platform. Metadata absence alone does not prove fake, but it kills any claim that this file itself proves authenticity.
Visual forensic tells
The big red flags are visual, not metadata:
The pale red-coated figures have melted facial anatomy, especially the left profile: eye/nose/mouth structure does not resolve like a real face or even clean makeup.
Their clothing trim and silhouettes are inconsistent and smeared, more like AI/composite artifacting than real ceremonial costume detail.
The whole image is aggressively blurred, but not in a clean optical way. It looks like blur is being used to hide generation/compositing seams.
No clear ground contact, shadows, footwear, hands, or press-context details are visible. A real event photo of something this bizarre would almost certainly have multiple angles, press captions, or video coverage.
Web-origin trail
The strongest public match I found is not a news/press source. It appears in a gaming/fandom meme context: a Reddit post in r/ElderScrolls titled “White-Gold Concordat. Circa 4E 175” with a Humour flair. That is a fantasy-game joke framing, not a real-world event claim.
A later r/aliens thread discusses the same image as a fake/edited image being passed around, with one commenter specifically pointing back to the Elder Scrolls humor post and interpreting the pale red-coated figures as fantasy “Thalmor / High Elf”-style figures rather than real beings.
There is also current public chatter around surreal AI videos/images involving this same public figure being placed into bizarre global/fantasy scenes; one recent article describes an AI-generated “Thank You, President Trump” music video that places him in multiple impossible settings. That does not prove this exact frame came from that video, but it fits the same ecosystem of viral AI political imagery.
Confidence rating
Fake / manipulated: 90–95% confidence.
Exact method: uncertain. It could be fully AI-generated, AI-overpainted onto a real photo, or a Photoshop-style composite blurred to look like leaked footage.
What I cannot prove from this copy alone: the original creator, the first upload, or whether a real base photo was used underneath. For that, you’d need the original source file or the earliest post/link before compression stripped everything useful.
But as-is? Yeah, this is almost certainly slop/meme bait, not a leaked legitimate photo.