() President Donald Trump posted a fake video to Truth Social on Sunday of former President Barack Obama being arrested in the Oval Office while the song “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People played in the background.
The 86-second video from TikTok user @neo8171 opens with a mashup of prominent Democrats — including Obama, former President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declaring that “no one is above the law” as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” theme song plays.
About 40 seconds in, the video cuts to an AI-generated sequence of a sit-down meeting between Trump and Obama in the Oval Office as FBI agents lurch at Obama, bring him to his knees and place him in handcuffs, all while Trump looks on and smiles. The video concludes with another AI-generated depiction of Obama wearing an orange jumpsuit in a jail cell.
The sitting president also shared a fake image by the user @sirtemplemount in the style of “The Brady Bunch”: 3-by-3 grid squares with mugshots of Obama, his Cabinet officials and a center square that read “The Shady Bunch.”
Obama’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the imagery.
The posts came two days after Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, on Friday threatened to refer Obama-era officials, including the former president, to the Justice Department for prosecution with regard to a purported “treasonous conspiracy” centered on the 2016 presidential election.
In the declassified report, Gabbard accused the officials of having “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for … a yearslong coup” against Trump.
Democrats in both the Senate and the House condemned the move by the top U.S. intelligence official, calling it “baseless.”
“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,” Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a statement.
Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Gabbard was attempting to rehash “decade-old false claims about the Obama Administration.”
“Few episodes in our nation’s history have been investigated as thoroughly as the Intelligence Community’s warning in 2016 that Russia was interfering in the election,” Himes said in a statement posted to X.
“While everyone has the right to critique the steps that IC leaders took under immense pressure, every legitimate investigation, including the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, found no evidence of politicization and endorsed the findings of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment.”
