US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2, 2026.
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President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth Social on Sunday, including saying that he has made hundreds of billions of dollars on stocks and other holdings for the U.S.
The 80-year-old commander in chief spent more than 10 hours on Sunday posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images on his social media platform. The posts included a depiction of Iran’s defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated image of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that read, “Trump is my president.”
One AI image appears to show the president sitting in front of several monitors in the White House tracking the stock market with a caption that reads: “I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!” The post offered no evidence for the claim.
Trump has previously come under fire for launching “Truth API,” a $100,000-a-month Truth Social feature that gives early access to announcements about policy decisions that could move financial markets. U.S. Senators urged the Securities and Exchange Commission in July to investigate whether Trump Media — the parent company behind Truth Social — is violating applicable federal securities laws with Truth API.
The president is no stranger to posting AI-generated content and has done so frequently during the ongoing U.S.-Iran war, including a post that showed him holding a gun with explosions in the background, and the words “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment seeking further details about the images.
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Trump, who built his political brand around the “Make America Great Again” slogan, has called for reasserting U.S. power at home and abroad.
His AI posting spree also included images that depicted countries, territories, and objects as U.S. possessions or territory, including natural and celestial landmarks.
One AI image shows the Strait of Hormuz as a “new U.S. Territory,” and in another, New Mexico becomes “New America.”
In another post, the Moon is shown with the words “The Moon is Ours,” and the American flag to the side. In another post, an image labels Lake Ontario, which currently has borders split between the U.S. and Canada, asLake America.
It comes after Trump signed an executive order directing the federal government to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded at the time by saying his country will keep calling it Lake Ontario.
