Overview
- Vice President JD Vance told reporters Trump would halt the AI parody posts if Democrats support the Republican funding proposal to end the ongoing federal shutdown.
- Trump’s initial clip, posted hours after failed White House talks with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, used Mexican folk music, put a sombrero and mustache on Jeffries and featured falsified audio attributed to Schumer.
- A second video published the next day again depicted Jeffries in Mexican caricature and showed Trump dressed as a mariachi playing guitar in the background.
- Multiple Hispanic and Latino organizations, including LULAC, UnidosUS, Mi Familia Vota, Voto Latino and others, denounced the videos as racist and an act of disinformation.
- Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum rebuked the stereotyping, saying the United States would not be what it is without Mexican workers, as Jeffries and Schumer separately condemned the posts on X.