Official White House account posts Pixar-style AI meme targeting Somalis after claims of fraud at Minnesota daycares

Donald Trump’s administration has shared an AI-generated fake trailer for an animated film denigrating Somali immigrants following viral claims that Somali-run daycare centers in Minnesota are fraudulently taking millions of dollars in government funding.

Administration officials and right-wing media personalities have seized on a series of fraud cases involving government programs in which most of the defendants have roots in the East African country.

In the artificially generated Pixar-inspired clip posted by a right-wing podcaster and shared by an official Trump administration X account on New Year’s Day, a group of Somali men travel to Minnesota to defraud the state’s daycare program and live the high life.

“We don’t need to be pirates anymore. I found a better way. Government-funded daycare. We must go to Minnesota,” one character says.

Descending a mansion staircase and lighting a cigar with a $100 bill, another character says: “Remember when we had to illegally steal from innocent people like thugs? Well now we’re stealing from innocent taxpayers. Just like the government intended.”

The Independent has requested comment from the White House.

The president has repeatedly used racist and derogatory language to describe Somali immigrants and U.S. citizens with roots in a nation he calls a “s***hole” and “barely a country.”

During a White House Cabinet meeting last month, Trump called them “garbage” people who “come from hell.”

“When they come from hell and they complain and do nothing but bitch, we don’t want them in their country,” he said. “Let them go back to where they come from and fix it.”

The president also baselessly alleged Somali immigrants are “taking over” Minnesota and “roving the streets looking for ‘prey’” as his administration surged federal law enforcement agents to the state to make hundreds of arrests.

Federal prosecutors and state investigators have spent years probing fraud in the state’s childcare system and convicting dozens of defendants. Right-wing media personalities have also spent years targeting the state — home to the nation’s largest Somali population — with bogus allegations that it’s “ground zero for ISIS recruitment inside America” and under siege by Somali immigrants who are manipulating elections.

But new allegations from a 23-year-old influencer have dovetailed with the president’s anti-immigration agenda and his years-long attempts to undermine Democratic elected officials in the state, including former vice presidential candidate and current governor Tim Walz.

David Shirley’s 43-minute tour of day care facilities quickly went viral last month, boosted by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, and fueled the Trump administration’s latest wave of law enforcement actions in the state.

Last week, in response to the video, the Department of Health and Human Services froze federal child care funding to all states, including Minnesota, and plans to release those funds “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately.”

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