‘We will rebuild our once great cities…making them safe, clean and beautiful again.’
No, you’re not watching Donald Trump’s rallies before his re-election to office. You’re actually watching a White House livestream of lo fi beats.
Yep, you’ve read that right.
The US President is the latest person to join the musical trend loved by students cramming for exam season and professionals working from home.
In the video, a cartoon version of Trump is seen scribbling away at his desk as a scroll ofhis actions during his first 100 days as US president roll in a split-screen next to him.
The looped 15-minute video, which has been uploaded onto the official YouTube channel of the White House and posted on social media websites X and Rumble, is expected to play 24/7 for the whole weekend.
Trump has signed 143 executive orders already this year in attempts to force through his agenda on everything from undocumented immigrants to education.
The music video reminds viewers of all these orders, which it calls ‘Promises made, promises kept.’
Some of the administration’s recent actions include orders aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes in the military, as well as policies targeting birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants.
One of the notes claims that Trump has launched ‘the largest deportation operation in U.S. history’.
The White House said the groovy music content was all part of a new strategy to find ‘innovative ways to distribute fact sheets and other information’ as they mark the US President’s first 100 days of his second term.
Despite only being back in office for just under five months, his return to the presidency has been marred by a number of scandals.
There was uproar from the security community when sensitive high level discussions about military operations in Yemen were accidentally sent to a journalist in a group chat on the unapproved Signal messaging app.
US gross domestic product also fell 0.3 percent at the beginning of 2025 after Trump’s plans for reciprocal tariffs sent the stock market into turmoil and prompted a global trade war.
Last night he faced criticism after posting a bizarre image of him mocked up as the Pope on his Truth Social account.
But he is not the first politician to release his own study track, and could have been inspired by one of our former leaders to put out his own beats.
The Conservative Party released their own lo-fi ‘boriswave’ to ‘to relax/get Brexit done to’ during former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s General Election campaign in 2019.
These beats were even more political, as the music included clips of Boris speaking about his policy agenda.
The mash-up features Boris promising to ‘Get Brexit Done’ and then ‘get on with all the things the people of this country really want to focus on’.
Lo-fi beats are commonly used as background music for study or work and are often accompanied by video of a cartoon person working.
It was first made popular by Lofi Girl, previously known as Chilled Cow, a 24-hour news channel and record label which shows a cartoon of teenage girl studying at her desk as hip hop beats play in the background.
It runs 24 hours a day and has a live comment section so people can talk to each other.
A bunch of spinoffs have since been launched on YouTube since Lofi Girl was first broadcast in 2017, including rainy jazz music and 90s style beats.
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