Is a viral video of former President Barack Obama saying "Trump crossed my bottom line" authentic? No, that's not true: The video is an obvious fake, with an extra-large gap between Obama's front teeth and lip movements that don't match the words being spoken. No Obama video statement about the situation were found on credible news sites, nor on Obama's own social media or websites.
The video originated in a July 22, 2025 TikTok post (archived here) on the @entertainment.spr account. It was captioned:
Obama claims that Trump has crossed his final line!
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post on tiktok.com/@entertainment.spr.)
Unlike what is seen in the AI video, there is no pronounced gap in Obama's front teeth seen in recent video appearances by the former president. The chart below compares Obama's front teeth as seen in YouTube video of his April, 2025 appearance at Hamilton College to the front teeth of the AI creation in the @entertainment.spr post on TikTok:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshots of tiktok.com/@entertainment.spr and YouTube.com turned into comparison graphic by Lead Stories.)
The other visual anomaly betraying the video's AI origin is that the mouth movements don't synchronize to the audio, such as the moment at 00:18 when the voice is saying "kneeling" (an open mouth sound) while the lips are closed as though the AI character were pronouncing an "m".
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post on tiktok.com/@entertainment.spr, taken at 00:18.)
As of July 23, 2025, Obama's only public response to Trump accusing him of treason and posting an AI video showing Obama arrested was a written statement from Patrick Rodenbush, Spokesperson for President Obama, emailed July 22, 2025 to Lead Stories:
Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.
The wording of that statement does not match the AI video.
Lead Stories searched both Google News' index (archived here) of thousands of websites and Yahoo! News' index (archived here) of partner organizations and news services, for any sign of such a video. No such statement was found, other than the fake video and references to it.
