On YouTube, an orange, bejowled baby with a wispy blond comb-over and a teeny-tiny suit and tie shakes hands with fellow infants before giving long, rambling speeches.
No, this is not another installment of Alec Baldwin’s “Boss Baby” franchise. Diaper Diplomacy, a video-shorts series that has also taken off on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, uses A.I. to transform politicians into the age that best reflects their behavior.
In one video, posted on August 22, baby Donald Trump informs baby Volodymyr Zelensky that the United States would sell him weapons, not just give them to him, before proceeding on a tangent about “corrupt” Joe Biden, also pictured as a baby, in a convertible, eating an ice-cream cone and wearing aviators. (“By the way, go back 40 years. He was not a smart man 40 years ago either, but now, he is in particular [sic] bad.”)
Other videos feature baby Hunter Biden’s Channel 5 interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan (the one that has Melania threatening a billion-dollar lawsuit over Biden’s Trump-Epstein claims); baby Barack Obama and baby Zach Galifianakis in the latter’s Between Two Ferns talk show; baby White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt discussing “Alligator Alcatraz,” the South Florida detention facility; and baby Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene insulting baby Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s eyelashes. History buffs should not miss baby Marilyn Monroe serenading baby J.F.K., nor the baby Founding Fathers on Declaration Day.
Across the four channels, Diaper Diplomacy—which launched in May and syncs un-doctored audio clips with A.I. baby re-creations of the corresponding videos, interstitched with reaction shots—now has an audience of more than a quarter-million followers.
At this point, most sane people find it hard to watch more than a few seconds of Trump’s ranting. Yet somehow, when portrayed as a baby, it’s palatable. “My wife says this is the only way she can stomach the news,” one user commented on a recent Diaper Diplomacy video. “If Diaper Diplomacy could produce a 40-minute film, they should go for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature,” commented another. A third comment reads: “It actually seem [sic] like kids are in charge of the world! Where did all the adults go?”
No one in the political circus is off-limits when it comes to Diaper Diplomacy. “⚠️Trigger Warning (for everyone): I roast both sides,” reads the channel’s bio. “Because let’s be honest—our politicians act like toddlers, and it’s time someone put them back in time-out.”
“These politicians got rich and powerful turning us against each other,” it continues. “It’s time we stop letting them divide us and start laughing together at them.”
The founder of Diaper Diplomacy remains anonymous. On the “Tip to keep the crib chaotic” page linked on the YouTube channel, he writes, “I’m just a regular guy chasing my dreams as a video creator, trying to keep my head above water while raising three kids—including a 10-week-old who seems to think diapers grow on trees.”
In a recent comment on a video, the Diaper Diplomacy founder revealed that running the account is not a full-time job yet—there are too many mouths to feed—but that he hopes for it to turn into one in the coming months, with revenue generated via videos and his online store, where he sells “Sippy Cup Coffee Mugs” with portraits of A.I. baby politicians on them and “Baby Face T-Shirts,” including one of baby R.F.K. Jr. saying, “Did you read the label on that formula?” (The Diaper Diplomacy founder could not be reached for comment.)
While the future promises no lack of source material, Diaper Diplomacy may hold the key for how people can stomach the news. MSNBC already went through one rebrand—why not another, but this time, infantilized?
Gracie Wiener is the Social Media Manager at AIR MAIL
