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Trump shares AI-generated images placing himself beside George Washington

cultureAug 16, 202630889

President Donald Trump posted several apparently AI-generated images and a video showing him alongside George Washington, including a clip of Trump giving Washington a tour of a newly constructed White House ballroom and an image of the two on horseback. In the video Trump gestures while carrying what appear to be construction plans as Washington nods, and Trump captioned the material, “Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas on this great Military Complex/Ballroom! President DJT.” Construction of the $400 million ballroom project is on hold after a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the president cannot make substantial White House changes without congressional approval, though courts have allowed work to continue on an underground bunker beneath the site. The administration has filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court to permit continued construction and included hundreds of pages of new renderings showing ornate gold finishes not in previous plans. The images come amid long-running use of AI content by the president to promote his projects and follow public reporting that the ballroom budget rose from about $200 million to roughly $400 million and that the site will include a sprawling, fortified military-style bunker below the demolished East Wing.

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