Trump says he made ‘Hundreds of Billions’ on stocks in AI posting spree

President Donald Trump posted a stream of AI-generated photographs and a collection of sweeping and unverified claims on Fact Social on Sunday, together with saying that he has made hundreds of billions of dollars on shares and different holdings for the U.S.

The 80-year-old commander in chief spent greater than 10 hours on Sunday posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images on his social media platform. The posts included an outline of Iran’s defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated picture of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that learn, “Trump is my president.”

One AI picture seems to point out the president sitting in entrance of a number of screens within the White Home monitoring the inventory market with a caption that reads: “I do that for our Nation, not myself. I’ve made Tons of of Billions of {Dollars} on Shares, and plenty of different kind Holdings, for the usA., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, however what are you able to do!” The submit provided no proof for the declare.

Trump has beforehand come beneath hearth for launching “Fact API,” a $100,000-a-month Truth Social feature that offers early entry to bulletins about coverage choices that would transfer monetary markets. U.S. Senators urged the Securities and Exchange Commission in July to research whether or not Trump Media — the guardian firm behind Fact Social — is violating relevant federal securities legal guidelines with Fact API.

The president is not any stranger to posting AI-generated content and has achieved so ceaselessly through the ongoing U.S.-Iran warfare, together with a submit that confirmed him holding a gun with explosions within the background, and the phrases “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!”

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark in search of additional particulars in regards to the photographs.

Trump, who constructed his political model across the “Make America Nice Once more” slogan, has referred to as for reasserting U.S. energy at house and overseas.

His AI posting spree additionally included photographs that depicted nations, territories, and objects as U.S. possessions or territory, together with pure and celestial landmarks.

One AI picture reveals the Strait of Hormuz as a “new U.S. Territory,” and in one other, New Mexico turns into “New America.”

In one other submit, the Moon is shown with the phrases “The Moon is Ours,” and the American flag to the aspect. In one other submit, a picture labels Lake Ontario, which presently has borders cut up between the U.S. and Canada, asLake America.

It comes after Trump signed an executive order directing the federal authorities to vary the identify of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded on the time by saying his nation will preserve calling it Lake Ontario.