Overview

• Hours after an unproductive White House meeting on funding, President Trump posted an AI-altered video on Truth Social depicting Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero beside a fabricated Chuck Schumer voice pushing anti-immigrant claims.
• Jeffries labeled the clip racist and a malignant distraction and later challenged Trump publicly to “say it to my face,” while Schumer condemned the post on the Senate floor as trolling by a president on the brink of a shutdown.
• Republican Sen. Roger Marshall defended the video as being said in jest, underscoring a partisan split over the president’s use of manipulated media during high-stakes negotiations.
• The video falsely ties Democrats’ push to preserve expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies to providing federal healthcare for undocumented immigrants; Democrats note federal law bars such benefits and say no change is being sought.
• The post follows other AI content recently shared by Trump, including a deleted “medbeds” clip, intensifying scrutiny of presidential use of generative media as lawmakers report stalled talks and a shutdown deadline of late Tuesday.