People Are Generating a Flood of Fake News About Trump That Does No Reputational Damage Whatsoever

President Donald Trump regularly posts some of the most bizarre content on the internet, from images of himself as Jesus Christ to AI videos of diarrhea being dumped on liberal protesters. But there’s been a weird trend over the past year: social media users take Trump’s strange fake photos and make them only slightly weirder. And then those fakes go viral, with most people never realizing they’re looking at something Trump never actually posted. The most recent example of this is a tweet posted Tuesday to X by a user called Glenn Tunes. If you just glanced at this tweet in your feeds you wouldn’t think much of it. It appears to show a post on Truth Social post sent by Trump himself. The AI-generated image depicts the president, Mahatma Gandhi, President John F. Kennedy, and Jesus Christ. And, yeah, Jesus looks quite a bit like Jared Leto for some reason. Would some religious folks be offended by such an image? Perhaps. But it’s exactly the kind of thing Trump might post. In fact, the president posted something identical on Monday, as you can see below. But why? What drives someone to post an image that’s only slightly weirder than Trump’s original image, and clearly inspired by it