White House sets up livestream of Trump reading deportation 'naughty list' in bizarre AI video
Topics: Donald Trump, YouTube, Christmas, Immigration
William Morgan
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Topics: Donald Trump, YouTube, Christmas, Immigration
With the season of goodwill to all mankind well underway at the White House, the Trump administration has shared a bizarre AI video showing the president reading out a 'naughty list' of the thousands of people he has deported this year.
The almost 18-hour video, made using artificial intelligence, shows Donald Trump with his quintessential comb over in a Christmas scene, with cookies and milk on a table and a roaring fire in front of him, as he reads a strange-looking scrolling list titled 'Naughty List: Criminal Illegal Aliens'.
In a weird parody of popular lengthy YouTube mixes titled 'Lo Fi hip hop beats to study to', the AI video shows Trump reading a list of thousands of people removed from the country over the past 12 months, alongside the crimes they were accused of.
Livestreamed on December 23, the video from the official White House is titled "BREAKING: Santa's Naughty List — the WORST of the worst, Lo-fi edition. No coal. Just deportation."
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Below the video, the White House account shared a link to a list of almost 15,000 people deported in 2025 with their mugshot and alleged crimes, some of which are crimes relating to being in the country illegally.
The less-than festive link claims to show 'Child molesters. Rapists. Murderers' who have been removed. It then adds to its festive message by announcing: "These are just a few of the scumbags here illegally who we have arrested thanks to President Trump."
It is not the only AI-made Christmas video being put out by the administration in the run-up to December 25, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also dropping a strange video depicting Santa as an armed immigration agent in recent days.
The vaguely sacrilegious video shows Santa in traditional costume, but with a red bulletproof ICE vest that he is filling with magazines of bullets. It then shows old Father Christmas putting a man into handcuffs before showing him processing the man in a holding area.
Santa is then shown checking a list as people board a plane with 'ICE AIR' written on the side.
It is captioned: "AVOID ICE AIR AND SANTA’S NAUGHTY LIST! Self-deport today with the CBP Home app, earn $3,000 and spend Christmas at home with loved ones.
"Holiday incentive is valid through the end of 2025."
This $3,000 'self-deportation' payment figure has been tripled over the holiday season as part of a promotional campaign by border officials, with immigrants able to apply through the same CBP Home app that the Biden administration had allowed them to enter with.
The Santa deportation video caps off a year which has seen figures across government use AI, parody, and alleged copyright violations to spread their message on social media, including the use of music by Taylor Swift and Sabrina Carpenter.
This latter incident saw Carpenter clap back at the administration, with the singer saying: "This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda."