A now-deleted AI-generated clip featuring former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama was seemingly posted twice on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account.
The AI clip apparently saw Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces being put on the bodies of apes dancing to The Lion Sleeps Tonight on the backdrop of a jungle.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement to Deadline, swept the racist undertone of the supposed clip under the rug, calling it a meme video with Trump as the king of the jungle and his counterparts as the other characters.
“This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public”, Leavitt said in her statement.
However, ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith did not hold back on the White House’s justification of the clip, calling it “BS.” Smith also called out the White House for trying to spin the narrative while also calling the entire debacle shameful.
“See, this is the B.S. that can’t be tolerated by this Admin. The White House can try to spin this anyway it wants — claiming it’s “Fake News,” and that someone altered the damn video — but if you were sensitive, thoughtful and decent, you’re not connected to something this shameful”, smith wrote on X.
The video’s screenshot as shared by Deadline shows the length of the video to be at 1:02 minutes, with the Obamas apparently featuring in the tail end of the video for two seconds.
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