President Donald Trump upped his AI slop game with a bizarre new post using President George Washington to help promote his planned massive White House ballroom.
In the AI video, Trump and Washington walk around the ballroom. Neither speaks, but both gesture at the ballroom around them. Two giant American flags with the wrong number of stripes are on the wall behind them.
“Thank you, George, for some of your brilliant ideas on this great Military Complex/Ballroom! President DJT,” Trump wrote in the caption on Sunday.
He posted the AI video as well as AI still pics of himself and the nation’s first president in the ballroom multiple times over the weekend.
Trump in his post referred to the ballroom as his “military complex/ballroom.” He has recently added that “military complex” designation amid heavy criticism over the lavish nature of the ballroom and as lawsuits seek to block the construction. Calling the ballroom a “military complex” can help him make a national security case for the facility in court.
Trump initially vowed that private donors would pay for his ballroom and taxpayers wouldn’t pay a penny. Since then, however, costs have ballooned to a reported $600 million, with U.S. taxpayers on the hook for half of that amount.
Critics have been outraged by the fact that the president has been obsessing over an expensive party facility amid a war with Iran, rising prices, trade disputes and other national crises.