Trump floods Truth Social with AI images of Swifties and communists

Donald Trump is very angry and makes no secret of it.

One day before the Democratic National Convention, while Vice President Kamala Harris was visiting one of the crucial swing states where she had recently turned the election results against him, Trump launched a flood of posts on Truth Social.

The former president posted or reposted his own content to his Truth Social account more than 25 times on Sunday, flooding his followers’ feeds with confused rants, false claims and AI-generated images of Taylor Swift fans supporting his campaign.

“I accept!” he wrote above the screenshots of the fake Swifties, apparently alluding to their supposed support.

The images were originally posted on X on Friday and Saturday by two popular right-wing accounts, one of which mixed the artificially generated images with real photos of a blonde woman wearing a “Swifties for Trump” shirt at a rally. (The phrase briefly trended on the platform on Friday night, but there is no evidence of a larger movement of this kind.)

He also shared a picture – created by the same X-Account earlier this weekend – of a New York Post Issue showing Harris in front of a communist symbol. on Xwhere he recently began posting again after months of silence, he shared an AI image of Harris speaking to a crowd of communists at the Democratic National Convention, which begins on Monday. The origin of the image was unclear.

When asked by CNN for comment on the second altered image, a Trump campaign spokesman responded with the headline from the first image, the portmanteau word “Camunism.”

Trump continued typing into the afternoon and early evening. Another post focused on one of his most popular topics at the moment: the size of crowds at rallies.

“We had to turn away a lot of people in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania yesterday, but Comrade Kamala Harris’ social media campaign showed empty seats long before the rally began in the early afternoon, when in reality we had to turn away 11,500 people!” he wrote, among other things. “She is a corrupt radical left politician and always will be!”

Ammar Moussa, Harris’s rapid response director, responded to X with (real) photos showing the low turnout at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.

“Donald Trump really doesn’t want anyone to know he spoke to an empty arena yesterday,” Moussa tweeted. “Don’t say that. Seriously. Don’t say that.”

Jeff Timmer, former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party and now senior adviser to the Lincoln Project, also noted Trump’s attempts to cope with the situation.

“Looks like someone woke up on that side of the bed today, chattering and barking in a panic,” he said. tweeted.

Trump also paused to lash out at Van Jones, apparently angry because the CNN commentator praised Harris’ economic program on a show earlier this week.

“Thank God we are finally hearing from a Democrat who is aggressively tackling price gouging,” Jones said Friday during an appearance on The Situation Roomsaid The Hill. He also praised Harris for her “strength” and “politics of joy.”

Above a screenshot of a transcript of these remarks, Trump posted: “Informal political commentator Van Jones tearfully pleaded with me in the Oval Office to help pass criminal justice reform in the U.S. Senate.

“I did it with the help of the Conservatives and that scoundrel, Jones, never once called to thank me or the other helpers for what we did,” he complained.

Trump continued to remind his supporters that he has done more for African Americans during his time in office than any other president – ​​with one possible exception.

“Along with Opportunity Zones, long-term funding for HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, and much more, I have done more for our black population than anyone else except maybe Abraham Lincoln!!! Sorry, but that’s the way it is!!!”

This claim is an old theme of his, something he has repeated ad nauseam in Tweetsat campaign events and most recently at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago. (Experts said The Washington Post in 2020 that the list of presidents who have done more for black civil rights than Trump includes: Lyndon B. Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, Harry Truman, and Barack Obama.)

Jones noted Monday that Trump appears to be suffering from a decline in media coverage of him in the weeks since President Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election, paving the way for Harris’ candidacy and a revival of Democratic hopes.

“He’s failing and struggling. Listen, they’re saying this is the worst three weeks of his campaign,” the CNN contributor told Anderson Cooper. “At least that’s what the press is saying.”

“This is the year he’s been impeached, convicted, shot at – and actually hit – and none of that is as bad for him as the fact that he may not get as much attention as Kamala.”

Surveys published by The New York Times and Siena College found last weekend that Harris was ahead of Trump by four points in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, five points in Arizona and two points in North Carolina. (Trump was ahead by one point in Nevada and four points in Georgia.)

Harris also overtook Trump nationally for the first time, according to a Sunday ABC News poll. The Washington Postand Ipsos shows Harris leading by three percentage points among registered voters, in a race that also includes third-party candidates such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a head-to-head comparison between Trump and Harris alone, she is even further ahead at 49 percent, while he is at 45 percent.