Trump reposts AI video depicting Obama couple as monkeys

U.S. President Donald Trump reposted a video portraying former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as monkeys.

The video, published on the Truth platform, sparked condemnation from prominent Democratic figures. Toward the end of the one-minute, AI-generated video, as the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” plays in the background, two gorillas appear with the faces of the Obamas, CE Report quotes ANSA.

The video repeats false claims that the vote-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 election from Trump. Early Friday morning, the clip had already received several thousand likes on the president’s social media platform.

The office of California Governor Gavin Newsom, a potential Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential election and a vocal critic of Trump, condemned the post, calling it “disgusting behavior by the president.” “Every single Republican must denounce it. Now,” Newsom’s press office wrote on X.

Ben Rhodes, former national security adviser and close confidant of Barack Obama, also condemned the image.