Overview
- The one‑minute AI clip portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as primates and recycled debunked claims about Dominion Voting Systems and the 2020 election.
- The post was later removed from Truth, and Trump said he does not intend to apologize after asserting he only viewed the beginning of the video.
- Democratic figures including California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office, former Obama aide Ben Rhodes, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued sharp condemnations.
- The European Commission said racist and illegal content has no place online and emphasized platform accountability under EU rules focused on systemic amplification.
- The footage appears to trace back to an October 2025 post by the X user ‘xerias_x,’ and it fits a pattern of prior AI-manipulated clips on Trump’s account targeting opponents.