Trump Gaza AI video draws online pushback
Using an artificial intelligence video, President Donald Trump shared his proposals for the potential development of the war-torn Gaza Strip.
The video was posted Tuesday evening on Truth Social and then on Instagram.
The AI 33-second video depicts Trump as a golden statue, along with mini golden statues for sale, as well as beachfront skyscrapers rising from rubble, The Hill reported.
It starts with a shot of Gaza in ruins after the Israeli military’s 15-month bombardment, The Hill said. The text reads “Gaza 2025 — What’s next?”
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is depicted in a few scenes as well, enjoying a meal and laughing as the sun shines and people dance around him, according to The Hill.
Children holding gold balloons made to look like Trump and a renovated beachfront with luxury hotels and money flying in the air are shown.
The AI video is set to a song, with lyrics like “no more tunnels, no more fear.”
“Trump Gaza is finally here,” a voice sings. “Trump Gaza shining bright, golden future, brand new light.
”Feast and dance; the deed is done. Trump Gaza, Number One.”
There’s a shot of a “Trump Gaza” building that look similar to Trump hotels in the United States, and, toward the end, the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seem to be enjoying drinks in the sun, shirtless, according to The Hill.
In the Instagram video’s comments, users expressed their disapproval with the video, as well as disbelief.
One user said she voted for Trump but did not vote for the behavior displayed in the video.
“The lack of humanity, decency, respect has made me regret my vote,” the comment says.
Trump has proposed expelling 2.1 million Palestinians from Gaza and transforming it into a “Riviera” that would be owned by the United States, CNN reported.
The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority has called that proposal a “serious violation of international law,” according to CNN.
“We have tried displacement before, and it will not happen again,” the PA foreign minister, Varsen Aghabekian Shaheen, said earlier this month — referring to the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced during the Arab-Israeli war that led to the creation of Israel in 1948.
Wassel Abu Yousuf, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee, told CNN that the video was “a clowning gimmick and nothing more than that.”
Megan Swift is a TribLive reporter covering trending news in Western Pennsylvania. A Murrysville native, she joined the Trib full time in 2023 after serving as editor-in-chief of The Daily Collegian at Penn State. She previously worked as a Jim Borden Scholarship intern at the Trib for three summers. She can be reached at mswift@triblive.com.
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