Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop

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Noel Joshua Hadley

This week, US president Donald Trump posted an AI slop image of himself as Jesus Christ, miraculously healing a sick man while a host of angels look on from above and an American flag ripples in the background.

It was only the latest in a dizzying series of AI images the president has posted to social media — from a picture of himself as the Pope to racist clips depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes — his latest post appears to have been a step too far for his most ardent supporters.

Following a major outcry among Christian and far-right influencers, Trump deleted the picture of himself healing the sick man, sheepishly trying to play it off by telling reporters he thought it was “me as a doctor” — a bizarre excuse which, if you take it at face value, seems to suggest that the president thinks doctors dress in Christ-like robes.

But it was too late to stop a “GOP holy war” that had conservative and Christian activists calling the image starkly unacceptable. While Trump has never seen much support from the left, even his most ardent supporters on the right were taken aback, highlighting the sheer amount of collateral damage his offensive AI slop posts are causing.

“I support Trump, and I spend eight hours a day defending him,” conservative political commentator Cam Higby tweeted. “I will not defend blasphemy.”

“A little humility would serve him well,” anti-trans activist Riley Gaines posted.

Making the “doctor” excuse particularly laughable, during the days leading up to his latest faux pas Trump had accused Pope Leo of being “WEAK on crime and terrible for foreign policy” in a rambling Truth Social post.

The pontiff had criticized the war in Iran, decrying the president’s threat to wipe out a “whole civilization” as “truly unacceptable” and encouraging others to “contact the authorities — political leaders, congressmen — to ask them, tell them to work for peace and to reject war, always.”

While we can only guess what Pope Leo thought of Trump depicting himself as Jesus, the latest backlash highlights how the president’s already tarnished public image continues to be eroded by the constant barrage of hateful AI slop on social media.

After he posted the racist clip of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in February, Trump initially claimed he “didn’t see” part of the video, with the White House defending it as an “internet meme.”

The egregious video received widespread criticism from both sides of the aisle, with republican and Black senator Tim Scott (R-SC) calling it the “most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House.” The backlash continued even after the White House took down the offending clip.

Experts have warned that the White House’s attempts to disregard offensive AI slop as “memes” could be an “attempt to cast it as a joke or humorous post, like their prior cartoons,” as Cornell University professor of information science David Rand told the Associated Post in January. “This presumably aims to shield them from criticism for posting manipulated media.”

In short, Trump’s troubling posts could further erode trust in an environment already heavily marked by AI-facilitated disinformation.

Meanwhile, the country’s adversaries are continuing to fight back, with Iranian government-backed propagandists posting their own AI slop. As 404 Media reported late last month, videos depicting Trump as a war hungry pedophile in a LEGO movie went viral online, suggesting the enemy is beating Trump at his own game — and without alienating their supporters.

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IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

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