White House faces backlash over AI video of Trump as Green Lantern

The White House is facing a fierce backlash after posting a bizarre AI video of 80-year-old US President Donald Trump as the comic book superhero Green Lantern. White House staffers created the AI clip that showed Trump wearing the green power ring donned by the DC superhero to create a large border wall and a large manufacturing plant. In the last seconds, Trump appeared to summon US military aircraft using the power of the ring. Social media reaction "In the brightest day, in the blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight," the post's caption read. "Let those who worship evil's might beware my power...Green Lantern's light." The phrase is an oath uttered by the Green Lantern comic character who has received a surge in fresh interest amid the HBO show Lanterns, which is based on the series. While there were some accounts on X/Twitter that shared positive reactions to Trump's post, there were many others that hit out at it. "You are the White House...act like it," said user @EVIMERONASTERI. Account @JamieBonkiewicz added: "This really is the cringiest collapse of a nation in real time." "This doesn't help lowering the cost of food or gas prices," said user @LucasSa56947288. Recent AI content blitz The post is Trump's latest AI content blitz with the US President sending out a flurry of messages in the past few days. Another post that was shared by the president includes an AI cartoon where he and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney donned ice hockey kits. Moments into the clip, Trump's cartoon avatar could be seen whacking his Canadian counterpart on the ice. Trump also shared another clip of himself in front of a sign renaming New Mexico to "New America." The trolling comes amid an abrupt and bizarre executive order that forced the name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America amid the trade war with Canada, which has a province with the same name. Broader pattern of trolling The US President sandwiched a United States Space Force post with the AI-generated uniform and pin being compared to Nazi uniforms and Star Trek logos, respectively. The octogenarian went on to flood his social media with claims of ownership of the Moon for the US. It is part of a long track record for the President who has made trolling central to his foreign and domestic policy.