"The president shared the 62-second video on Thursday, just before midnight, which pushes a conspiracy about manipulated vote-counting machines but concludes by cutting to an AI clip that shows the faces of the Obamas superimposed on apes' bodies for roughly a second, accompanied by the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The video carries a watermark linked to a pro-Trump account on X with tens of thousands of followers."
"Responding on Friday, Leavitt defended the post in comment to PBS and said the controversial clip was from a meme that had depicted Trump as King of the Jungle over other lawmakers. 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."
A 62-second post shared on Truth Social blends a conspiracy about manipulated vote-counting machines with an AI-generated clip that briefly shows Barack and Michelle Obama’s faces superimposed on apes' bodies with the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The clip includes a watermark tied to a pro-Trump account on X with tens of thousands of followers. The longer version of the meme casts Trump as a lion and portrays several Democrats as animal characters, depicting Hillary Clinton as a warthog and New York mayor Zohran Mamdani as a hyena. The White House press secretary defended the post as originating from an Internet meme and urged critics to stop expressing outrage.
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