{"id":27257,"date":"2025-07-21T23:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27257\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T23:34:11","slug":"village-people-reacts-to-trumps-ymca-ai-video-of-fake-obama-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/27257\/","title":{"rendered":"Village People Reacts to Trump’s ‘YMCA’ AI Video of Fake Obama Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVillage People<\/a> previously gave Donald Trump <\/a>the green flag to use \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d in his campaign efforts, but a recent video featuring the song shared by the president may have just crossed a line in the eyes of the disco group.<\/p>\n

\n\tShortly after the POTUS shared a fake, AI-generated video on Truth Social <\/a>of former president Barack Obama<\/a> getting arrested while the band\u2019s iconic 1970s hit plays in the background, Village People shared its thoughts on the matter in a joint statement to People<\/a> on Monday (July 21). \u201cWhile we don\u2019t want \u2018Y.M.C.A.\u2019 to be used for political endorsements of any kind, President Trump merely sharing a video containing our song does not meet the standard for copyright infringement,\u201d the members said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHowever, we will attempt to find the original person or entity who posted the offensive video featuring President Barack Obama, and have such video taken down as not being endorsed by Village People, nor any of the owners of the copyright,\u201d the group added.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the controversial video, digital renderings of Trump and Obama sit together in the Oval Office. As faux FBI officers suddenly come into view, the twice-impeached chief of state smiles unnaturally while the Democratic politician is handcuffed and carried out of frame.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe clip \u2014 which also features a montage of Democratic party leaders repeating the phrase, \u201cNo one is above the law\u201d \u2014 then cuts to AI-generated shots of Obama standing behind bars, wearing an orange jumpsuit. The former president has never been arrested, though the sitting POTUS is a convicted felon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Trump has platformed misleading AI-generated content. Last August, he shared false images <\/a>that led supporters to believe that Taylor Swift had endorsed him for president, something the pop star later rebuked<\/a> while throwing her support behind Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch like the AI materials he\u2019s shared, \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d has also become a hallmark of Trump\u2019s second term in the White House. The billionaire often used the track at his events and rallies leading up to his 2024 election win, and \u2014 despite previously requesting<\/a> that he stop \u2014 Village People has signed off on his affinity for the song. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Trump campaign knew they had obtained a political use license from BMI and absent that license being terminated, they had every right to continue using Y.M.C.A.,\u201d founder Victor Willis said in a December statement<\/a> on Facebook. \u201cThe financial benefits have been great as well as \u2018Y.M.C.A.\u2019 is estimated to gross several million dollars since the President Elect\u2019s continued use of the song. Therefore, I\u2019m glad I allowed the President Elect\u2019s continued use of Y.M.C.A. And I thank him for choosing to use my song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe following month, Village People performed \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d at the president\u2019s pre-inauguration rally<\/a> in Washington, D.C., where Trump joined the band members and danced along on stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Village People previously gave Donald Trump the green flag to use \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d in his campaign efforts, but a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,8833,498,111,74],"class_list":["post-27257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-barack-obama","tag-music-news","tag-politics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}