Trump posts AI images of himself with buff alien and space lasers in latest Truth Social spree 

By Joe Sommerlad⁠0%

5/18/2026, 12:15:13 PM

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President Donald Trump has posted a bizarre AI-generated meme of himself and the Secret Service escorting an extraterrestrial in handcuffs on Truth Social, one of many eccentric posts that appeared on his account this weekend. 
After returning to Washington D.C. from a three-day summit in China, Trump spent Saturday and Sunday golfing and making social media posts. 
One meme, posted to Trump’s Truth Social account, showed the president and a group of stern-faced agents leading the alien, silver and conspicuously muscular, across a military base. 
The image was posted without a comment or caption to explain it. 
Trump then posted two more memes of himself in a high-tech Space Force command center above Earth as satellites, asteroids, and bombs explode in the background. 
The science-fiction theme comes two weeks after the Pentagon declassified and published a swathe of previously top secret material on supposed UFOs collected by the U.S. government, a release that posed a potential problem for Christian members of Trump’s base, some of whom rationalized it as proof of the existence of angels instead. 
Elsewhere on Truth Social it was largely back to business as usual as the president posted attacks on his political foes, from rebel Republican congressman Thomas Massie, to Illinois Gov. 
JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Barack Obama, and California Gov. 
Gavin Newsom, all Democrats. 
Newsom, in another AI meme, was depicted wearing a straitjacket in a padded cell, suggesting he had literally been driven insane by “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which the president recently insisted was a real medical condition. 
Another post showed a Golden State license plate bearing an image of the governor as a zombie, its letters spelling out “NEW-SCM” (or “Newscum”), Trump’s preferred disparaging nickname for a man considered by many to be a likely Democratic presidential candidate come 2028. 
Trump also posted a number of press photos of himself looking statesman-like in conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, and memes championing his renovation of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Washington Monument. 
There were also posts of more dramatic AI images of drone strikes on Iranian naval vessels, following on from his warning to Tehran that “the clock is ticking” on their faltering peace talks. 
On Saturday, Trump’s social media output appeared to be dedicated towards promoting the idea that he remains youthful and in rude health, with the president recirculating praise that he “gets younger” and “ages in reverse”, a month before his 80th birthday. 
The idea runs counter to the unwanted attention he received last week after dozing off at an Oval Office event on maternity care and social media focus on his swollen ankles during the Beijing visit. 
Amid ongoing speculation about his health, the president is due for his latest checkup at Walter Reed Military Medical Center on May 26, his fourth visit since returning to power in January last year. 
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