Overview
- Trump’s Truth Social account, quiet for roughly seven hours Saturday, then blasted out more than a dozen posts in about 90 minutes featuring AI-made war scenes.
- One image labeled "Dropping Like Butterflies" showed drones marked with Iranian flags plunging into the sea, followed by a "Bye Bye, Drones" depiction of a U.S. ship shooting them down.
- He shared split-screen graphics contrasting "Under Trump" with "Obama/Biden," echoing his earlier unverified claim that U.S. forces sank 159 Iranian ships.
- The spree leaned on last week’s Strait of Hormuz exchanges in which the U.S. Navy said it shot down Iranian missiles and drones while escorting commercial ships under a fragile ceasefire.
- News outlets identified the visuals as AI-generated, and Trump mixed them with golf photos and 250th-anniversary mockups, highlighting how social-media spectacle can blur propaganda and policy.