Скачать или смотреть JD Vance: 'Sombrero memes will stop' if Jeffries ends US shutdown

Vice President JD Vance brushed off the multiple deepfake AI videos that Donald Trump has posted of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero and a cartoonishly large mustache, insisting there is nothing racist about the memes and it is all in good fun.

“Oh, I think it’s funny, the president is joking and we’re having a good time,” the vice president said during Wednesday’s White House press briefing.

In recent days, the president has been sharing AI-generated videos of both Jeffries in that appropriated garb and an altered and vulgarly voiced Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to mock the two top Democrats during stalled negotiations over the latest stopgap funding bill, which has led to a government shutdown.

In one video that Trump posted to Truth Social on Monday, a digitally altered Schumer says “nobody likes Democrats anymore” because of “all of our woke trans bulls***,” all while making the false claim that Democrats are pushing to give undocumented migrants free healthcare to get new voters.

“If we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get ‘em on our side so they can vote for us,” the AI-generated Schumer says in the clip.

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