US President Donald Trump on Monday posted an AI-generated video that appeared to show former President Barack Obama being arrested and jailed. The video was uploaded to Truth Social, Trump's social media platform.
The footage begins with Trump facing off against Obama in a dramatic setting, when FBI agents suddenly burst onto the scene and take Obama into custody. The clip then cuts to Obama in an orange prison jumpsuit, standing behind bars.
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Trump captioned the jail scene with the phrase "No one is above the law." As expected, the video quickly triggered an uproar on social media. Former Vice President Kamala Harris posted a picture of Obama and urged users to retweet it if they trusted him, but was met with a flood of responses from users calling for Obama to be imprisoned.
Conversely, Instagram users denounced Trump's post as an attempt to distract from his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "A sitting president shouldn't behave like this," one user wrote. "He's doing everything he can to stop us from talking about the Epstein files. It's pretty pathetic."
