Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has expressed concern regarding President Donald Trump's recent social media post featuring an AI-generated video that parodied Schumer's press conference with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., at the White House.
The fabricated video which the president shared on his Truth Social platform Monday, shows Jeffries with an animated sombrero and handlebar mustache, mocking his own party as Latin-inspired music plays in the background while Schumer offers a profanity-laced critique of his own party.
In one of the video's more gentle moments, the AI-generated Schumer says, "Look guys, there's no way to sugar coat it, nobody likes Democrats anymore."
"Hours away from a shutdown, which we don't want, the American people don't want, the president is busy trolling away on the Internet like a 10-year-old," Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday. "And that's exactly why Americans are going to blame him if the government shuts down."
Schumer made sure to clarify that widely seen video of him and Jeffries was fake.
"The president posted a face video of Leader Jeffries and me with [a] sombrero, fake music, impersonating my voice through AI — it wasn't me — talking more lies about health care and immigration," Schumer said.
Trump met with congressional leaders Monday in a final attempt to avert a government shutdown, but the talks ended without an agreement. Democrats pressed for health care concessions, while Republicans pushed for a straightforward funding extension.
Jeffries later said Democrats would not support a bill that "continues to gut the health care of everyday Americans," while Vice President JD Vance countered, "I think we're headed to a shutdown because the Democrats won't do the right thing."
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