The White House asserted Monday that every video the past few weeks that has shown President Joe Biden to be confused, addled, or frozen in time has one simple explanation — “cheap fakes.”

In an exchange with Newsmax chief White House correspondent James Rosen during Monday’s press briefing, press secretary Karin Jean-Pierre said that Republicans are engaged in “pure bad faith” by “diving” into “these cheap fake videos” that have cast Biden in a bad light.

Cheap fakes are defined as video that’s been altered by a human vs. their deepfake counterpart, manipulated by artificial intelligence to make it seem like a person did or said something that they didn’t.

Regardless, the White House is asserting that Biden didn’t wander off at the G7 summit, didn’t try to sit in a chair that wasn’t there, wasn’t zoning out and staring into space during a Juneteenth celebration, and didn’t freeze up at a Los Angeles fundraiser.

No, all “cheap fakes,” Jean-Pierre said in response to Rosen’s question.

“That was definitely a cheap fake,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden’s G7 moment. “That video was widely fact-checked, including by conservatives, at what happened, that what occurred, the president walked over to give a thumbs up to divers who had just landed right in front of him. And if you run that tape a little bit longer, you would see what was happening, what the president was actually doing, and it is a cheap fake.”

As for the Juneteenth incident, Jean-Pierre said, “the president stood there listening to the music and he didn’t dance. Excuse me, I did not know not dancing was a mental … was a health issue.”

“What you’re seeing right now is Republicans … [are] really diving into these cheap fake videos. And it’s in bad faith. That’s what I’m saying. What they’re doing is pure bad faith,” she said.

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