But they haven’t started swarming around the “absolute victory” narrative yet, and they calm down a bit until then. In the mean time there’s a few blades of grass they’ll use to declare it never happened. Even though it changes nothing if it’s a deep fake or not.

If it is its a new super-accurate deep fake. Also, if it were, wouldn't he just come out and say "That's not me"? It makes no sense on just a cursory inspection of it.