House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slammed the AI-generated deepfake video posted online by President Donald Trump Monday night as “racist and fake.”
“Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video,” Jeffries told reporters Tuesday. “When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.” He spoke while flanked by scores of House Democrats on the Capitol steps less than 14 hours before a possible government shutdown.
Trump met with Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at the White House on Monday to discuss the impending shutdown. No deal was reached, though attendees said there was a “serious” and substantive conversation about their differences.
But hours later Trump posted the inflammatory video mocking Schumer and Jeffries, falsely accusing the Democrats in vulgar terms of seeking to restore government benefits for undocumented immigrants for political gain.
Jeffries is depicted in the video wearing a sombrero, remaining silent as mariachi music plays and Schumer delivers a fabricated rant about how “if we give all these illegal aliens health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us.”
