Donald Trump has long criticized his predecessor, Barack Obama, and he has now renewed those attacks with a new AI-generated post.
The post, shared on Trump’s Truth Social platform, also featured several of his other political opponents. Trump described them as a “bad group of people” and claimed they were “very destructive” to the United States.
Donald Trump Shares AI Mugshot Attack On Obama
Over the weekend, Trump once again took to his social media platform to target his original predecessor, this time by sharing an AI-generated image.
In the graphic, several of Trump’s high-profile opponents were depicted in mugshots while wearing prison jumpsuits. Obama’s jumpsuit appeared to be a different color from the others, making him stand out. The figures were also shown holding criminal tags displaying their names.
Among those featured were figures who previously served in Obama’s administration, including former senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
“This is a bad (Sick!) group of people,” Trump wrote in the post shared on Sunday. “Very destructive to our great nation. Caused tremendous damage through Weaponization!”
Donald Trump Previously Shared An AI Clip Depicting Obamas As Apes
In February, Trump also targeted his predecessor by posting a clip of Barack and Michelle Obama that many considered offensive.
The video featured the bodies of two apes with the faces of the former president and first lady superimposed on them, per USA Today.
The backdrop also appeared to show a jungle setting, with several other apes swinging in the background as “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” played.
Amid backlash over the video, the White House appeared to double down on claims that it was not racist, stating that it was only a “meme of Trump and the Obamas as characters from The Lion King.”
The president also claimed he was unaware of the clip’s racist imagery, saying he did not see the part featuring the Obamas and dismissing it as a “very small mistake.” The clip was later deleted without Trump issuing an apology.
Obama Draws The Line At Trump Attacking His Family
Reacting to Trump’s AI attacks, Obama said in a May interview that he does not take them “personally,” unless they involve his family.
“I don’t take it personally,” the former president said, per People Magazine. “I mean, I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this… That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about. I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way.”
Obama had also previously slammed Trump’s behavior as “deeply troubling” and described it as a “sort of clown show” during a February interview with progressive podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen.
Donald Trump Shared Posts Calling For Obama’s Arrest
Trump’s attacks on Obama reached a new peak earlier in the month when he took to Truth Social to repost messages from social media users slamming the former president.
One post described Obama as “the most DEMONIC FORCE in American politics in decades.” A second appeared to claim that Obama and his alleged co-conspirators rigged the 2020 election against Trump, while another directly called for Obama’s arrest.
“Arrest them all. Prosecute them all. Incarcerate them all at once for treachery, treason, and seditious conspiracy to overthrow the United States Government,” one post, Trump shared with his millions of followers, read. “But first, Barack Obama.”
Barack Obama Warns Against Politicizing Justice
Days before the post, Obama appeared to call out Trump for allegedly using the justice system as a tool to go after his political enemies.
He claimed that doing so is detrimental to the country’s democracy and warned that the nation may never fully recover from this pattern.
“We can survive a lot, bad policy, funky elections… There’s a bunch of stuff that we can overcome,” Obama said. “We can’t overcome the politicization of the justice system, the awesome power of the state.”
“You can’t have a situation in which whoever is in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends,” he added.