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.

Timing-wise, Trump's post coincides with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's claims that she has evidence of an “Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency.” In a tweet, she wrote: "Their goal was to usurp President Trump and subvert the will of the American people."

Donald Trump ignited a digital firestorm on Sunday by posting a deepfake video that portrays former US President Barack Obama being dramatically arrested by FBI agents inside the Oval Office.