The White House has posted a Rick and Morty-inspired video starring Donald Trump and JD Vance, a day after the show’s co-creator acknowledged a debt to the commander-in-chief.
The 36-second clip, captioned “Hop in… best dimension yet,” parodies 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.
The president and his deputy race out of the executive mansion, briefly wave to a rally crowd and then outrun a red-eyed space dragon in their flying saucer.
On the way, they pass hard-nosed border czar Tom Homan arresting a literal illegal alien, the Artemis II rocket and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose face falls off to reveal that he is really a robot.
The bizarre post comes after one of the show’s co-creators, Dan Harmon, admitted that aspects of Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama had provided inspiration for his new spin-off cartoon, President Curtis, giving Rick and Morty’s fictional commander-in-chief his own spotlight.
Interviewed by The Hollywood Reporter about the new project, Harmon said: “The conversations about Obama and Trump were inevitable.
“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.
“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.”
Not everyone was amused by the White House’s clip, however, with former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene responding on X: “People can’t afford gas, groceries, rent, and healthcare and this is the weird embarrassing crap the official White House account is putting out.”
Liberal commentator Harry Sisson similarly said: “wtf… we just want health care and not whatever the hell this is.”
The video appeared as Trump himself engaged in another eccentric posting spree over on Truth Social, in one instance sharing an AI meme of himself traveling through time to save George Washington, seen hanging from Mount Rushmore in tribute to another film, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959).
In another post, the president depicted a huge concrete border erected between the U.S. and Canadian borders to satirize the latest trade tensions between the two countries.
In a third, he appeared with John F Kennedy standing on the White House Lawn, as though the two men had posed together for an official picture, despite the fact that Trump was just 17 years old when the Kennedy assassination took place.
Other posts provided provocative hints that he intends to run again for a third term in 2028, a subject he also joked about at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night, and rebuked Senate Republicans for lacking “spine,” with one depicting Trump in a white lab coat pointing sternly towards a skeleton.
