---
title: "Someone Deepfaked Trump Into “Breaking Bad” and It’s Horrifying"
description: "Donald Trump explains money laundering as Bob Odenkirk's character Saul Goodman from \"Better Call Saul\" and \"Breaking Bad\" in this new deepfake."
date: "2019-09-18"
modified: "2019-09-23"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfake-trump-breaking-bad"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "deepfake"
  - "deepfakes"
  - "donald trump"
  - "the digest"
---

# Someone Deepfaked Trump Into “Breaking Bad” and It’s Horrifying

![A YouTuber deepfaked Bob Odenkirk in a scene of "Breaking Bad" with the face of president Donald Trump to explain money laundering.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/deepfake-donald-trump-breaking-bad.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Ctrl Shift Face via YouTube\</em\>*

## Better Call Trump

YouTube creator Ctrl Shift Face deepfaked U.S. President Donald Trump onto the face of Bob Odenkirk in a scene from the hit AMC show "Breaking Bad." The end result: "Better Call Trump" — a high tech parody that not only replicates Trump's facial features, but his voice as well.

https://youtu.be/Ho9h0ouemWQ

In the scene, Odenkirk's titular character James McGill (who took on the pseudonym Saul Goodman) explains to a y0ung Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, the basics of money laundering — a fitting monologue for Trump, who[ has been accused](<https://www.wired.com/story/if-trump-is-laundering-russian-money-heres-how-it-works/>) of involvement in money laundering schemes.

## Money Laundering 101

Even better, Trump's deepfaked son-in-law Jared Kushner takes over Paul's character. Kushner was named a senior White House advisor in 2017, prompting complaints of nepotism.

The video used open source deepfake software called [DeepFaceLab](<https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab>) to effectively cut and paste Trump and Kushner's faces frame by frame.

Ctrl Shift Face even generated Trump's voice to speak Odenkirk's lines with the help of [StableVoices](<https://www.youtube.com/c/AStableGenius>), a separate social media account that's using an AI-powered voice synthesizer to replicate famous movie and TV lines.

**READ MORE:** [Better Call Trump: Money Laundering 101](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho9h0ouemWQ>) \[YouTube\]

**More deepfakes:** *[Watch a Deepfake That Casts Will Smith as Neo In “The Matrix”](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/deepfake-will-smith-the-matrix>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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