'You babies': Trump trolls Dems with spooky AI-generated music video amid government shutdown
WASHINGTON, DC: President Donald Trump returned to Truth Social on Thursday, October 2, with another unusual post.
The video uses an AI-generated version of Blue Oyster Cult’s 1976 hit '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.'
It portrays OMB Director and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought as the Grim Reaper. Vice President JD Vance's AI version is also included in the video.
In the video, the president took aim at Democrats with the lyrics, "Dems you babies."
What Donald Trump's AI-generated video is about
President Donald Trump’s viral AI-generated video is all over social media.
Trump's video shows Vought, who helped plan the conservative Project 2025, as the Grim Reaper walking through the streets of Washington, DC, wielding a scythe.
The video features an AI-generated cover of '(Don’t Fear) The Reaper', creating a strange and spooky vibe.
Trump is in the video playing a cowbell and Vance is on drums while skeleton musicians accompany them.
Zombies walk through the scenes, and the video’s dark, macabre background adds an eerie, unsettling feel. It even includes an image of the White House.
The video also includes humorous and exaggerated images of "baby Democrats," one of whom has a mustache and a sombrero, mirroring other AI-generated images Trump has created of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
The one minute-and- seven- second video was made by a group called the Dilley Meme Team.
Blue Oyster Cult, whose music was used in the video, has not yet commented on Trump’s viral post.
What Donald Trump's AI-generated video lyrics are about
The video’s lyrics grabbed attention for their political message.
The original song’s words were altered to deliver a pointed message targeting Democrats.
Lines include, “Now their time has come / Here the power’s gone / Russ Vought is the reaper / He wields the pen, the funds and the brain / Here comes the reaper / Dems you babies…”
The video concludes with clips of Democrats speaking, while the singer mockingly chants “Blah blah blah blah blah."
The video wraps up with children in Halloween costumes out for trick-or-treat.
How Donald Trump and Russell Vought are linked to Project 2025
Russell Vought helped create Project 2025, a 900-page plan organized by the Heritage Foundation for a Republican president.
The plan includes numerous conservative proposals, such as reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy and promoting traditional family values.
During his 2024 presidential election campaign, as Project 2025 became controversial, Trump said, “I know nothing about Project 2025."
What Trump’s viral AI-generated video means during government shutdown
The US government has been in shutdown since Wednesday.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats have enough votes in the Senate to pass spending bills.
Trump seized the shutdown as an "opportunity to clear out dead wood," suggesting he might reduce the federal workforce.
"Republicans must use this opportunity of Democrat forced closure to clear out dead wood, waste, and fraud. Billions of Dollars can be saved. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" the Republican leader wrote in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
