Overview
- President Donald Trump posted a photo on Truth Social showing him with golf legend Gary Player after an appearance at his Bedminster club that critics say was digitally touched up.
- Commentators and social accounts circulated side-by-side comparisons that show the Truth Social version making Trump look younger and slimmer while Player’s appearance stayed largely unchanged.
- There has been no official White House confirmation that the posted image was AI-generated, and reporting that longtime aide Natalie Harp helps curate the president’s Truth Social posts is limited and attributed rather than confirmed.
- Observers highlighted that Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, attended the same LIV Golf event, a detail noted because the PIF pulled earlier financial backing of the league.
- The episode underscores how easy edits can spread on political platforms and could deepen public scrutiny of the president’s appearance and of how presidential images are produced and verified online.