No, Doge did not throw cash from a helicopter; Video uses two older, non -related clips

Does Elon Musk drop dollars from a helicopter to California residents?

Some social media videos would make you believe that Musk, who is the leading President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, uses savings of cuts by the Federal Government and returns the Americans in an unusual way.

“Elon Musk is a man of his word. He has a helicopter and the first Doge payments are rained for California,” said a narrator in a Facebook video of February 23.

The video has text with the inscription “It rained money on a busy highway”, “Cash!” And “California!” It shows a helicopter that drops invoices from a large container on a lot of people in a field below. Then the scene changes to a highway where people in the middle of parked cars and trucks gather bills. Some celebrate and show their stock for the camera, but there is no sound.

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But there was no official word that Trump's administration reseted money that was brought back to taxpayers by Doge, let alone a game show like fashion of a helicopter.

And after a closer look, the video is a edited version of two videos that were recorded before Doge was even a shine in Trumps or Musk's eyes.

(Screenshot from Facebook)

Trump hovered a proposal to give a dividend of 20% from the savings of Doge -or 5,000 US dollars when it reaches the target of 2 trillion dollars to taxpayers. It is not clear how much taxpay money saves Doge. Politifact reported on February 21 that Doge's website achieved 55 billion US dollars in Sparwaren, but the “wall of receipts” amounts to around 8.6 billion US dollars. So far, no money has been returned to taxpayers.

We also wondered why the first million of millions would go to California. Trump and Musk have been missing publicly with the democratic governor of California after fatal forest fires last month.

With an inverted image search, we found that the Facebook post was used real video material, but both are before the existence of Doge.

• One was from October 2023 when a Czech TV personality from the Czech Republic lowered 1 million US dollars from a helicopter to his fans in a field below.

• The second was from November 2021, when a motorway accident in Carlsbad, California, with a armored truck, led to some drivers on the street excitedly built up.

The Facebook post has recorded a video from a Tikok post from February 20, in which what the same two videos combined, even though he did not mention Musk or Doge.

The Czech TV personality Kazma Kazmitch, whose real name Kazma Bartošek is, informed the money drop in his social media pages. The Facebook post claimed that these were shared pictures of Doge -Dollars from this helicopter and the people in front of the area below.

The Facebook post also shared part of a video that was shared by an Instagram user of November 19, 2021 after an accident on the 5 motorway in Carlsbad. In the Facebook video, several people can also be seen in the video of 2021.

In a Facebook post in which a video is given, Musk, which brings money from a helicopter in California, shows clips from two separate older videos. They are pants on fire!