Former President Barack Obama opened up about the AI-generated image depicting him and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes that President Donald Trump posted earlier this year in a new interview with The New Yorker.
“I don’t take it personally,” Obama told the outlet. “I mean, I’m always offended when my wife and kids get dragged into things, because they didn’t choose this. That’s a line that even people whose politics I deeply reject, I would expect them to care about.”
“I would never talk about somebody’s family in that way,” he added.
Obama revealed that he was way more concerned about Trump treating war “like a video game” with the unhinged AI videos he’s been posting, including a video depicting “excrement [being] dumped on ordinary citizens.”
“I mean, I’m a fair target in the sense of, yeah, you can feel free to pick on me, because I’m your own size,” he said of Trump’s objectionable posts aimed at Americans.
