For the last week the White House has been trying to portray Obama and members of his administration as part of a vast “treasonous conspiracy” that tried to thwart Trump.

Never one to easily let things go, Donald Trump is still nursing a 14-year grudge, it seems. The president has spent the past week urging prosecutors to haul his predecessor Barack Obama off to jail for what intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard claims was a “treasonous conspiracy” to subvert her boss’s 2016 election victory.

This week, Donald Trump’s preoccupation with Barack Obama — and specifically his role in probing Russia’s role in the 2016 election — reemerged in dramatic fashion.

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video showing former President Barack Obama's arrest on his social media platform on Sunday.Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via an email sent outside regular business hours and Obama's office via a contact form on its website.

President Donald Trump stepped into his own trap, and Morning Joe seemed delighted—if somewhat bemused—to have to point it out. On Thursday, MSNBC ran a clip from April 2024 in which the president praised a Supreme Court judge ahead of a ruling that granted sweeping criminal immunity for “official acts,