{"slug": "rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are", "title": "Rick and Morty fans rip White House’s AI parody: ‘Rick would think you guys are huge losers’", "summary": "The White House posted a 36-second AI-generated parody video on X featuring cartoon likenesses of Donald Trump and JD Vance spoofing the Rick and Morty opening sequence, drawing widespread mockery from fans and criticism from former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who called it 'weird embarrassing crap' while Americans struggle with costs.", "body_md": "# Rick and Morty fans rip White House’s AI parody: ‘Rick would think you guys are huge losers’\n\nThe 36-second clip also drew the ire of former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene\n\n- Bookmark\n- CommentsGo to comments\n\n[ Rick and Morty fans](/arts-entertainment/tv/features/rick-and-morty-new-series-b1870400.html) have mocked the\n\n[White House](/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-rick-morty-b3022415.html)for posting\n\n[a bizarre parody video inspired by the show](/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-white-house-rick-morty-b3022415.html)starring the cartoon likenesses of\n\n[Donald Trump](/topic/donald-trump)and\n\n[JD Vance](/topic/jd-vance).\n\nThe 36-second clip was posted on social media site X with the caption “Hop in... best dimension yet.”\n\nIt spoofs the cult Adult Swim cartoon’s opening title sequence, with Trump standing in for the cantankerous scientist Rick and Vance for the impressionable sidekick Morty.\n\nOther X users quickly made fun of the post in response, with one [writing](https://x.com/WhitneyPuppy/status/2081663638352634318): “Rick would think you guys are huge f***in losers fyi.”\n\nAnother [wrote](https://x.com/Undue_Risk/status/2081744678903320860): “I know it’s all become background noise but the official White House account posting an AI Rick and Morty parody just really feels like new lows in having no shame, abjectly pathetic and pure uncut Reddit at the same time - not to buy into norms but there used to be some dignity.”\n\nOne user [added](https://x.com/CaseyFr65348323/status/2081822101724438815): “I’m a Republican and this makes me nauseous. I didn’t vote for stupid cartoons and mean spirited tweets. Major L for the Republican Party. We’ll see what the people have to say come November.”\n\nWhile another [said](https://x.com/zorach38/status/2081805360063504520): “Glad this administration is finding more creative ways to waste our tax dollars. Can't afford to make anyone's life better but they can put this slop out. Unreal!!”\n\nFormer Republican congresswoman [Marjorie Taylor Greene](/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene) was also among those criticizing the post on X, writing: “People can’t afford gas, groceries, rent, and healthcare and this is the weird embarrassing crap the official White House account is putting out.”\n\nWatch Apple TV+ free for 7 day\n\nNew subscribers only. £9.99/mo. after free trial. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.\n\n[Try for free](https://tv.apple.com/gb/channel/tvs.sbd.4000?itscg=30200&itsct=independent_tv&ct=offer&at=1000l3akK)\n\nADVERTISEMENT. If you sign up to this service we will earn commission. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.\n\nThe producers of *Rick and Morty* are yet to comment on the clip. *The Independent* has approached Adult Swim for comment.\n\nThe post came after one of the show’s co-creators, Dan Harmon, admitted that aspects of Trump and fellow former President [Barack Obama](/topic/barack-obama) had provided inspiration for his new spin-off cartoon, *President Curtis*, giving *Rick and Mort*y’s fictional commander-in-chief his own spotlight.\n\n[Interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/president-curtis-dan-harmon-trump-rick-and-morty-movie-1236656937/) about the new project, Harmon said: “The conversations about Obama and Trump were inevitable.\n\n“Curtis has a naïveté that you could overlap with Trump, who is like, ‘I’m an outsider, and I consider this job simple, and I don’t care about the bureaucracy of it.’ On the Obama side, it’s the charmer and the guy who gets organic joy in being liked – that whole rock star aspect of Obama.\n\n“But mostly just more legendary aspects of presidents from the past, all Serpentor’d into a test tube baby that then becomes our version of maybe Martin Sheen in *The West Wing*, where it’s our fantasy president, warts and all.”\n\n*President Curtis* premiered on Adult Swim July 26.\n\n## Join our commenting forum\n\nJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies\n\n[Comments](#comments-area)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are", "canonical_source": "https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rick-morty-white-house-parody-reaction-b3022566.html", "published_at": "2026-07-27 19:51:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-27 20:03:43.569783+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["White House", "Donald Trump", "JD Vance", "Marjorie Taylor Greene", "Adult Swim", "Dan Harmon", "Rick and Morty", "The Independent"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/rick-and-morty-fans-rip-white-houses-ai-parody-rick-would-think-you-guys-are.jsonld"}}