Iranians have once again taken a swipe at Donald Trump, this time with an AI-generated video that mocks his decision to extend the fragile ceasefire with Tehran.
The clip, shared by the Iranian consulate in Hyderabad, pokes fun at the delay in negotiations, depicting a caricatured Trump waiting endlessly at the table alongside Vice President JD Vance. Posting the video, the consulate's official X handle wrote, "How was the ceasefire extended? The video is getting viral in Iran." In the 45-second video, AI-generated Trump, with Vice President JD Vance and others, is seen waiting for Iran's team at the negotiation table. "We are having very great negotiations with Iran," the Trump caricature types out on his latest Truth Social post. The video then uses a SpongeBob SquarePants '2,000 years later' meme template to show AI Trump getting frustrated at Iran's no-show.
The clip then shows an exasperated AI version of Donald Trump issuing threats to empty chairs.
“If Iran doesn't come to negotiate, we're gonna bomb them,” he says, before moments later asking the vacant room, “So where are the Iranians?”
An aide then hands him a note reading, “Shut up, Trump".
The video closes with the caricatured leader conceding, “Alright, then I will extend the ceasefire at Pakistan's request,” before abruptly walking out to laughter.
Where does the ceasefire stand?
The status of a two-week-old ceasefire, due to expire earlier this week, remained unclear. Trump made what appeared to be a unilateral announcement on Tuesday that the US would extend a ceasefire until it had discussed an Iranian proposal in peace talks to end the two-month-old war.
But Iranian officials did not say they had agreed to any extension of the truce, and criticised Trump's decision to maintain the U.S. Navy blockade of Iran's trade by sea, itself considered by Iran an act of war.
Iran's parliament speaker and lead negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said a full ceasefire only made sense if the blockade was lifted. Reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the slender chokepoint that carried a fifth of the world's oil trade before the war, was impossible with such a "flagrant breach of the ceasefire," Qalibaf said on social media.
(With agency inputs)
