Trump spent the weekend posting AI-generated images of himself as military heroes, religious figures and dead presidents, then capped it off with the strangest one yet.
The final image places him at a table with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, all three holding quill pens over what looks like an upside-down map of the United States. Trump’s dressed in a black suit and bow tie meant to echo Lincoln’s. Nobody’s said what they’re signing, why a map needs three signatures, or what historical moment this is even supposed to be. No policy attached, no explanation, just the image.
“Why are they signing a map?” PatriotTakes asked after sharing it. Someone else replied: “Trump with dead presidents signing a map makes a lot of sense if you’re delusional.”
A weekend of self-portraits
That was the closing image of a run that also included Trump as a Revolutionary War commander among soldiers with muskets, and Trump as Elvis, rhinestone jumpsuit and all. There was one of him looming over Greenland, which he’s repeatedly said he wants under American control, and another declaring Venezuela the “51st state.” He also posted himself kissing a gold crucifix in front of an American flag. The Independent reported he shared proposed monuments in Washington too, plus attacks on Bruce Springsteen and Democrat James Talarico.
Trump’s used AI images to make himself look younger and stronger than actual photos for a while now. This batch was bigger than usual, and kept dropping him into historical moments he had nothing to do with.
The uniform picture, and the record it doesn’t match
One post shows the current Trump seated across from a much younger version of himself in military-style uniform, captioned: “Same Guy. Even more energy now!”
That uniform is from the New York Military Academy, a private boarding school he attended as a teenager. Despite the name, it’s not military service. Trump never actually served. He got four education deferments during Vietnam, then a medical one, officially for bone spurs, though questions about that diagnosis have never gone away. A PolitiFact review of his draft history found he’d previously explained his absence by citing his lottery number, without mentioning the medical deferment at all.
Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican congressman and Air Force veteran, called it out directly: “Once again: Trump was not in the military nor anywhere near it.” Trump’s own history on this has followed him for years, he’s compared avoiding STIs while dating to “my personal Vietnam” in an old Howard Stern interview. The Revolutionary War image sharpens the contrast even further, giving him a battlefield record his actual biography doesn’t have.
Greenland and Venezuela aren’t just jokes
The Greenland and Venezuela images sit differently from the rest. Trump has genuinely and repeatedly talked about taking Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, despite Greenlandic and Danish leaders rejecting the idea outright. He’s used “51st state” language about other countries too, part of a broader pattern of floating US territorial expansion.
Wrapping that in AI propaganda doesn’t make it policy, but it lets him circulate the idea without ever having to explain how it would actually work or answer questions about international law. It’s the same trick used for the rest of the images, Lincoln, Washington, Elvis, a war hero, a religious figure, all inside a few hours, shared by supporters long before anyone checks the details. And the details are often just wrong: the Washington-Lincoln image has them signing a map instead of a document, the war portrait has no basis in his real service record, the cadet photo blurs a private school into something resembling national service.
None of that stopped the sitting US president from posting them all under his own name.
What critics actually zeroed in on
Most of the criticism wasn’t really about the image quality. “Good to know after a tough weekend on the golf course the president is back at work laser focused on improving the lives of Americans by resuming his deranged AI marathon,” liberal commentator Ron Filipkowski wrote.
This landed while the US remains involved in the Iran conflict and Americans keep worrying about prices and cost of living. Trump’s used the same Truth Social account to make genuinely serious statements about that war, including a 3am post threatening that Iran’s government could “no longer exist” if the US resumed major strikes. That’s what makes the account hard to write off as harmless. The same feed goes from threatening another country to a fake painting of Trump kissing a crucifix, with basically no gap between the two.
AI makes this stuff cheap to produce and impossible to mistake for anything real. That’s probably exactly why Trump likes it, each image lets him hand his supporters whichever version of himself he wants them to see that day. This weekend it was a soldier who never served, a would-be conqueror of foreign territory, and a president who put himself on equal footing with Washington and Lincoln.
The technology can generate all of that. It still isn’t true.
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