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President Donald Trump sowed a fair bit of confusion after posting not one but two AI-generated videos of a supposed US strike on Iran’s Kharg Island.
Trump, as it turned out, was simply hallucinating a fantasy, forcing a US official to clarify Monday that the depicted “attacks” on the island, Iran’s main hub of oil exports, hadn’t actually occurred, The Independent reported.
Trump made no effort to clarify that the videos were AI-generated when he posted them on Truth Social. In his first post, made on Sunday night, he only wrote in the caption: “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”
Both of the videos are made to look like they were taken from inside a helicopter as the island is engulfed in explosions and flames. He posted the follow-up video just a minute after the first, which is probably a sign of just how much of a kick Trump gets out of living out his fantasies in AI slop; he couldn’t settle for posting just one.
Asked by reporters to explain Trump’s slop parade on Monday, his vice president JD Vance could offer little of convincing substance.
“Well, you know, the president likes to switch it up on social media a little bit,” Vance said, adding that Trump was “sending a message to the Iranians.”
The timing of the AI videos couldn’t have been more deceptive. That Sunday night, the US launched a series of strikes on Iran’s Larak Island, ending a month-long lull in direct attacks. Iran retaliated by launching missiles at two US air bases in Jordan.
The following morning, Trump made another post calling Iran a “Failed Nation.”
“IT IS DEAD!” he declared. “They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, they have no currency.”
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