When Donald Trump dropped a new AI-generated video on X, it quickly became meme fodder, but probably not in the way he had intended.

Recycling his favorite song, The Village People’s “YMCA,” Trump walked into a Cracker Barrel ad and proceeded to shimmy and shake along with “Uncle Herschel,” the company’s old-timey mascot who was recently “retired” in a brand makeover that caused a MAGA firestorm.

Right-wing activists, podcasters, and pundits, including Robby Starbuck and Matt Walsh, came out of the woodwork to blast the company for its “wokeness,” and Cracker Barrel caved under the pressure. It scrapped the new streamlined branding and reverted to the original.

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