Donald Trump embarked on a flurry of posts on Truth Social on Sunday morning, uploading a series of AI-generated images targeting his political rivals, celebrating his visit to China and depicting a drone strike on Iranian ships — capping a weekend of social media activity that also included a video showing him throwing a television comedian into a dumpster.
The barrage opened with an AI-generated parody of the 1970s sitcom The Brady Bunch, which Trump relabelled “The Shady Bunch.” The image depicted former president Barack Obama, former FBI director James Comey, former CIA director John Brennan, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Valerie Jarrett and James Clapper — all shown wearing prison clothing. “This is a bad (Sick!) group of people. Very destructive to our great Nation,” Trump captioned the image. “Caused tremendous damage through Weaponization!”
The president then turned his attention to his recent visit to China, posting several photographs of his meetings with President Xi Jinping and adding his own commentary. One image, captioned “China Loves Trump,” showed him being welcomed to the country, while another depicted the two leaders shaking hands, accompanied by the declaration in large font that “President Trump gets younger.” Trump himself added: “President Xi and President Trump are AMAZING.”
The posting session closed with a more overtly aggressive image — an AI-generated depiction of an American drone striking Iranian ships, with figures shown being thrown into the air by the force of the missile impacts. Trump captioned it simply: “Adios.”
The Sunday uploads followed a separate AI video posted by the official White House account on Saturday, in which Trump was depicted walking up behind late-night comedian Stephen Colbert during his opening monologue, grabbing him by the collar and throwing him into a dumpster on set before closing the lid. The video, which lasted 22 seconds, ended with Trump performing his signature dance to YMCA. The White House captioned it: “Bye-bye.” The clip was posted to coincide with Colbert’s final show, marking what appeared to be Trump’s attempt to have the last word in a long-running feud with the host.
Earlier in the weekend, Trump had posted a photograph of himself looking out over the mountains and colourful villages of Greenland, captioned “Hello, Greenland!” — arriving just hours after Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, the US special envoy to the territory, was met by more than 500 protesters in the capital Nuuk when he arrived to open a new American consulate. Demonstrators carried signs reading “Go Home USA,” “Make America Go Away!” and “We are not for sale.” “Greenland belongs to us. It’s our country. It doesn’t belong to Denmark or the United States,” resident Grethe Kramer Berthelsen told AFP during the rally.
Trump also posted an AI image depicting a golden dome of missile defence shielding the White House — a reference to his proposed “Golden Dome” programme, modelled on Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system.
