U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday shared an AI‑generated video depicting ex‑President Barack Obama being arrested, intensifying calls from his supporters for Obama’s prosecution.
The video, posted on Trump’s Truth Social platform, opens with a clip of Obama declaring, “No one is above the law,” before digitally altered footage shows him being handcuffed by law enforcement officers during a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office.
Set to the Village People’s “YMCA,” the video concludes with Obama in an orange prison jumpsuit inside a federal penitentiary.
The footage was manipulated from their real November 2016 meeting, when Trump was president‑elect.
Trump’s post followed bombshell remarks from Tulsi Gabbard, the current Director of National Intelligence, who alleged on Fox News’ Sunday Morning that Obama‑era officials waged a “year‑long coup” to undermine Trump’s presidency.
“Their goal was to subvert the will of the American people and enact what was essentially a years‑long coup with the objective of trying to usurp the president from fulfilling the mandate bestowed upon him,” Gabbard said.
She further revealed that she has referred several former senior officials, including ex‑FBI Director James Comey and former DNI James Clapper, to the Justice Department, accusing them of “manufacturing” intelligence to bolster claims of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump reacted swiftly, posting: “Great job by young and talented Harrison Fields on Fox News.
“The Panel was fantastic on prosecuting Obama and the ‘thugs’ who have just been unequivocally exposed on the highest level of Election Fraud. Congratulations to Tulsi Gabbard. Keep it coming!!!,” he wrote.
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In addition to the AI video, Trump also posted doctored mugshots of Obama-era cabinet members and demanded the arrest of Senator Adam Schiff.
In a different post, Trump said, “In the months leading up to the November 2016 election, the Intelligence Community agreed that there was no Intelligence that reflected that Russia was trying to hack the election…
“So it was very striking when we look back at the documents that I declassified and released that show there was a shift in early December…”
The flurry of posts comes amid criticism of Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. His administration recently claimed no Epstein “client list” exists and reiterated that the financier died by suicide — angering even some of Trump’s supporters.
Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, blasted Gabbard’s claims on X saying, “It is sadly not surprising that DNI Gabbard, who promised to depoliticise the intelligence community, is once again weaponising her position to amplify the president’s election conspiracy theories.”
He added, “It is appalling to hear DNI Gabbard accuse her own IC workforce of committing a ‘treasonous conspiracy’ when she was unwilling to label Edward Snowden a traitor.”