Donald Trump has once again stirred a wave of online debate with a peculiar AI-generated video shared on social media. This isn’t the first time the former president, along with the White House, has ventured into swapping visuals and movies created by artificial intelligence.
Among the ’embarrassing’ portrayals were Trump as Superman, a ‘childish’ Bruce Springsteen clip, a quirky May the Fourth image, and the unsettling ‘Gaza Dream’ movie. However, his latest creation takes it up a notch, featuring former President Barack Obama.
The video, shared on Trump’s own social media platform, Truth Social, shows Barack Obama being taken into custody. In the clip, the former president is seen speaking at a rally, stating “no one is above the law,” before being depicted being arrested and placed in a cell with an amused Trump observing.
What makes this AI video even more extraordinary is that it uses actual footage of a meeting between the two leaders at the White House in November 2016, when Trump was president-elect and Obama was preparing to leave office.
As if the sequence wasn’t dramatic enough, Obama is then shown in a federal prison donning an orange jumpsuit, being ushered away, all while The Village People’s ‘YMCA’—a tune closely associated with Trump—plays in the backdrop.
