Donald Trump has shared another shocking AI-generated video of former President Barack Obama in prison.
It came on the heels of his Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, claiming that Obama staged a ‘years-long coup’ to keep Trump from re-entering the White House. She was referring to declassified documents, which claim the Obama administration ‘manufactured’ intelligence which claimed Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump win.
In 2018, Trump himself admitted Russia did interfere with the 2016 election, while speaking to a pool of journalists after a summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, but insisted the meddling had not affected the election result.
The AI Video Details
At the beginning of the clip, Obama was heard speaking during Joe Biden‘s presidential campaign, saying: ‘Nobody, especially not the president, is above the law.’ In the absurd video, Obama is seen kneeling and being handcuffed by the FBI, as Trump beams. ‘YMCA’ by the Village People is playing in the background.
Obama then looks desolate in a prison cell and orange jumpsuit, staring out from prison bars.
The roughly 45-second AI-generated video, posted to Trump’s Truth Social platform on Sunday night, was originally created by a TikTok user with a small following. It features Pepe the Frog, an alt-right meme mascot, dressed as a clown and honking its nose before showing the arrest sequence.
Gabbard’s Allegations
The video posting followed claims by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that the Obama administration engaged in a “treasonous conspiracy” to subvert Trump’s 2016 election victory.
President Obama and his national security cabinet members manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was essentially a years-long coup against President Trump,” Gabbard alleged in a DNI press release on Friday.
Gabbard released over 100 pages of declassified memos and intelligence assessments, which she described as “overwhelming evidence” of a coordinated effort by senior Obama-era officials to politicize intelligence and launch the multi-year Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
She has referred the documents to the Department of Justice, calling for prosecutions of those involved, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
The Russia Investigation Facts
The Mueller report, which investigated the alleged collusion, found no evidence that President Trump himself, or anyone in his campaign team, had colluded with Russia to try and influence the 2016 election result.
But in January 2017, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found that Russian interference in the election was ‘coherent and well-constructed’ – though not by Trump or his associates.
Mueller concluded in his report issued in 2019 that Russia interfered in the election through hacking and a covert social media campaign and that the Trump campaign embraced the help and expected to benefit from it. The interference was described as “sweeping and systematic” and “violated U.S. criminal law.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s final report, released in August 2020, concluded that Russia conducted a sophisticated and aggressive campaign to influence the U.S. election to help Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton.
Previous AI Videos
The Obama video, while shocking, is not the first AI-generated clip Trump has shared online.
Earlier this year, Trump shared an AI-generated video showing what he hoped Gaza would look like in 2025. Captioned ‘Gaza 2025 – what’s next?’, the video showed AI-generated likenesses of displaced Gazans walking through the rubble before transitioning to a newer, Dubai-esque city.
The video featured luxurious yachts, belly dancers, Elon Musk eating a pita, and a gold statue of Trump. It controversially ended with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sipping drinks on a beach.
Gaza Vision Controversy
‘Oh I think they’d love to leave Gaza if they had an option,’ Trump previously said. ‘Right now they don’t have an option. What are they going to do? They have to go back to Gaza.
‘I think it should be a location that’s going to make people happy. You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years. It’s all death.
If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people, permanently, in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed and not be knifed to death like what’s happening in Gaza.’
The creators of the Gaza video later revealed it was intended as satire, created in eight hours using AI software. Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen said they never intended to become Trump’s “propaganda machine” and were unsure how the video reached the president.
Political Implications
Some Trump supporters have called for the Obama arrest scenario to become reality. Right-wing journalist Nick Sortor wrote on X, tagging Attorney General Pam Bondi: “MAKE THIS A REALITY.”
However, critics have framed both videos as distractions, particularly given ongoing controversies including the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner criticised Gabbard’s actions, stating: “It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticize the intelligence community, is once again weaponizing her position to amplify the President’s election conspiracy theories.”
Context and Criticism
Trump, who was convicted in May 2024 on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, has increasingly normalized the idea of using the Justice Department to go after political enemies. On the same night he posted the Obama video, he also floated sending Democratic Senator Adam Schiff to prison and posted fake mugshots of various Obama-era officials.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office, raising the bar for prosecuting Trump—and any of his predecessors—for actions taken as president.
Both AI videos have drawn widespread criticism for their insensitivity and potential to spread misinformation. The Gaza video was condemned by Palestinian leaders and human rights organisations, while the Obama arrest video represents an escalation in Trump’s use of AI-generated content to attack political opponents.
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