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Trump Floods Social Media with AI Memes: Bragging, Mocking, and Renaming Places Over US Holiday Weekend

Trump Floods Social Media with AI Memes: Bragging, Mocking, and Renaming Places Over US Holiday Weekend
▲ An AI-generated image posted by President Trump

US President Donald Trump continued to flood his social media platform, Truth Social, with numerous posts even during the US Labor Day holiday weekend (September 5–7).

In particular, on Sunday, September 6, the second day of the holiday, more than 60 posts were uploaded to his Truth Social account.

A significant portion of them were memes believed to have been generated using AI.

The post that drew the most attention was a map photo renaming New Mexico to "New America."

In the photo, a red "X" was drawn over "Mexico," and "America" was written underneath.

As President Trump remains fixated on changing existing geographic names by either using his own name or appending America, this has once again drawn backlash from the opposition Democratic Party, sparking controversy.

On September 7, President Trump continued to post multiple map images rebranding New Mexico as New America, along with map photos depicting both Canada and Greenland as part of US territory.

Among the posts uploaded by President Trump over the two days was an image renaming Lake Ontario, which borders the US amid a trade war with Canada, to "Lake America."

A cartoon image was also uploaded showing himself playing an ice hockey match with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, telling a fallen Carney, "Get up, Governor."

There was also a post claiming the Strait of Hormuz as US territory, an image changing the shape of Iran in a Middle East map into the profile of his own face, and an image of himself striking Iran with a hammer bearing the US flag.

Several surreal images of President Trump himself surrounded by combat robots with the caption "Give them nightmares" were also posted.

An image of Hulk Hogan wearing a red headband reading "MAGA" and draped with the US flag was posted as well, which upon closer inspection turned out to be an AI composite image with President Trump's face.

There was also a composite image of him arm-wrestling with Hogan, showing himself smiling leisurely while Hogan grimaced in distress.

He re-posted a photo claiming to be the "greatest" US president in history, and even uploaded a photo of himself riding horses side by side with the first president, George Washington, as well as an image inviting Washington to the White House Oval Office for a conversation.

An image estimated to be a draft design of Space Force uniforms posted by President Trump faced criticism for evoking Nazi Germany.

"Starship Troopers," which President Trump revealed inspired the uniform design, is a 1997 film satirizing fascism.

Because the design was inspired by the fascist military in the movie, it even drew mockery asking whether it was a "Space Nazi" force rather than a Space Force.

He also posted a photo captioned "The Moon is Ours" with the US flag attached.

This was a unilateral claim that the Moon belongs to the United States amid the space exploration race between the US and China.

President Trump also posted a photo of famous actor Robert De Niro holding a red T-shirt reading "Trump is My President," writing, "Even a jerk like this is starting to understand (reality)."

Given that De Niro is one of Hollywood's most prominent critics of Trump, the image is highly likely to be fake.

Meanwhile, President Trump is spending this holiday at his golf club in New Jersey, having arrived there on September 4 and appearing with his hair color changed from blonde to dark brown as he disembarked from Air Force One.

Fox News, a conservative-leaning outlet, reported on this, noting that "social media reactions flooded in," and sharing user reactions such as "Trump going brown hair was nowhere on my 2026 bingo card" and "Brown seems to be the new blonde."

(Photo: Capture from President Trump's Truth Social, Yonhap News)
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