The clip comes from the September 2024 US presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, where Trump repeated an unverified claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating residents' pets. The remark was widely fact-checked that night and quickly spread on TikTok, X, and YouTube as remixes, songs, and reaction edits. Its deadpan delivery and unusual wording made it easy to reuse out of context, and it remains a shorthand reference for the debate and for wildly overstated political claims online.