President Donald Trump shared a bizarre meme Saturday morning depicting himself and Vice President JD Vance chasing former President Barack Obama in an altered photo from O.J. Simpson’s infamous white Bronco police chase.
The image — originally posted by Donald Trump Jr. on Instagram earlier this week — shows the two Republicans superimposed into the iconic June 1994 pursuit. Obama is depicted behind the wheel of Simpson’s Ford Bronco during the slow-speed chase in Southern California that followed Simpson’s murder charge.
On Saturday, the president reposted the image without comment on Instagram and also shared it on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The repost — which appears to mock Obama while framing Trump and Vance as pursuers — seems to allude to the president’s recent, unsubstantiated allegations that Obama committed “treason” in connection with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Critics say the unfounded accusations are just another tactic for the Trump administration to deflect from the growing demands to release more information about the investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has called for the grand jury testimony transcripts related to Epstein’s 2019 indictment to be unsealed, but has yet to order the release of Justice Department files in which he’s said to be mentioned “multiple times.”
Earlier this week, Trump reposted an AI-generated video showing Obama being arrested in the Oval Office. According to multiple comments posted on Trump’s Instagram account Saturday, the O.J. Simpson image is yet another attempt at distraction.
“Release the Epstein files,” several of the nearly 14,000 comments read.
The meme came just hours after Trump announced to his Truth Social followers that he’d arrived in Scotland, where he’s scheduled to visit both his Turnberry and Aberdeen golf properties, as well as sit down with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump was photographed playing golf at his seaside course as protesters across Scotland took to the streets to denounce his visit.
Demonstrators carried signs reading “Trump not welcome,” “No fascists, no rapists, no Trump,” and “South Park was right!!” — a reference to the animated sitcom’s latest episode portraying the president sleeping with the devil, who mocks his anatomy.
With News Wire Services
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