Trump, 79, Posts Wild AI Pics to Try to Justify Death Threats

Source: The Daily Beast

Trump, 79, Posts Wild AI Pics to Try to Justify Death Threats

Julia Ornedo
Sun, November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM EST
3 min read

President Donald Trump is using AI to self-soothe after his call to punish “seditious” Democratic lawmakers was met with intense backlash.

Trump, 79, fancied himself as a cape-wielding hero tasked with obliterating the “Deep State” in a series of Truth Social posts on Sunday that featured bizarre AI-generated images of himself and the six Democrats who urged the military to “refuse unlawful orders” in a video message.

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But Trump’s “over the top” response was frowned upon even by his own party members. Several Republicans came out against the president and called on him to tone down the rhetoric, while the White House was forced to clarify that Trump wasn’t calling for the execution of Democrats.

Trump seems to have found solace in AI-generated videos that justify his threats. He reposted a second clip from an account called “DeepFakeQuotes” showing an individual hiding behind a Guy Fawkes mask, a la V for Vendetta, arguing in a robotic tone that the Democrats’ video was “a direct attack on the chain of command.”

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