What’s next? “Yo mama” jokes?
President Donald Trump’s annoying and racist AI-generated slop videos played on repeat for hours in the White House briefing room on Wednesday, according to multiple outlets. This includes Peter Doocy of Fox News, who proudly informed John Roberts of the Trump administration’s “unserious behavior.”
“He knows how to troll, doesn’t he, Peter?” Roberts responded with a laugh.
The two doctored videos that played nonstop on the White House’s TV screens were originally posted by Trump on his site, Truth Social.
One includes House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries donning a giant handlebar mustache and sombrero as he stands silently next to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as Mariachi music plays in the background. Fake audio features Schumer telling reporters that because “nobody likes Democrats,” they need to give “illegal aliens free health care” in order to get “them on our side, so they’ll vote for us.”
“They can’t even speak English,” faux Schumer says in the video. “So they won’t realize that we’re just woke pieces of shit, at least for a while until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.”
The second video features Jeffries condemning Trump’s first AI video of him to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
As Jeffries tells O’Donnell that “bigotry will get you nowhere,” a Mariachi band of all Trumps pops up in the background and plays loudly throughout the rest of his remarks.
The Mariachi-backed doom-loop lawmakers were forced to endure Wednesday is a pretty desperate attempt by White House to drive Democrats bonkers enough to agree to their terms during a government shutdown.
Trump and his cronies are blaming Democrats for the shutdown by using the wildly misleading claim that they want to give free health care to undocumented immigrants. Democrats’ official position, which is laid out in an alternate funding bill, is that they want to undo the $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts Republicans enacted earlier this year. But their main demand seems to be extending subsidies for middle-class Americans who buy health insurance from Affordable Care Act exchanges.
Vice President JD Vance made light of the White House’s AI antics during an appearance in the briefing room Wednesday.
“I think it’s funny,” Vance, who likely still finds “deez nuts” jokes charming, said. “The president’s joking, and we’re having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith while also making a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats’ positions, and even poking some fun at the absurdity of themselves.”
He added: “I’ll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make the solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop. I’ve talked to the president of the United States about that.”