Overview

• The president posted the AI-altered clip to Truth Social and X shortly after a White House meeting with Democratic leaders on averting a government shutdown.
• The video fabricates profane remarks by a digitally altered Chuck Schumer and depicts Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero with mariachi music.
• Hakeem Jeffries condemned the post as a “malignant distraction” and “disgusting,” and he countered on X with a real photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein captioned, “This is real.”
• Sen. Roger Marshall defended the post as jest, saying Trump was toying with the press and mocking what he called unserious negotiation proposals.
• Reporters note that undocumented immigrants are largely ineligible for federally backed healthcare, while Democrats are seeking to preserve expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies for lawfully present individuals; the post follows Trump’s recent deleted AI “magic bed” video and earlier collaboration with PragerU.