After a roughly seven-hour lull on Truth Social Saturday, President Donald Trump resurfaced with a burst of over a dozen posts featuring AI-generated Iran war images and golf tournament snapshots.
His account had been inactive through most of the morning and early afternoon, but at 3:51 p.m., the 79-year-old Republican shared an artificial image showing drones marked with Iranian flags plunging into the sea, describing them as “dropping like butterflies.”
Moments later, he followed up with another fabricated visual depicting a U.S. warship firing laser beams into the sky, triggering explosions. The caption read: “Bye Bye, Drones.”
Trump then shifted his focus to criticizing his Democratic predecessors — Joe Biden and Barack Obama — appearing to fault them for not taking military action against Iran.
A split-screen graphic showed a destroyed Iranian naval fleet under the label “Trump,” contrasted with intact vessels under “Obama/Biden,” echoing Trump’s statement last month that U.S. forces had sunk 159 Iranian ships.
Later, he shared an AI-generated image of himself standing on the deck of a vessel, appearing to look through binoculars as an oncoming armada went up in flames.
Trump’s war-themed posts come amid a tenuous ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran, as both sides enforce dueling blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global shipping route. Recent polling indicates the conflict remains broadly unpopular with the American public.
Mixed in with the war imagery were photos from a LIV Golf tournament held Saturday at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. The images, some apparently taken of a television screen, showed the expansive property along the Potomac River.
Trump attended the event and was seen seated behind bulletproof glass alongside his son Eric. The appearance came less than a week after he viewed the Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral in Florida.
The billionaire president is a frequent user of Truth Social, where he shares both official policy statements and personal commentary, often targeting political rivals on Capitol Hill and in the media.
According to an analysis by The Daily Beast, Trump posted 565 times on the platform last month, an average of roughly 18 posts per day. That’s more than twice as many as he made during April 2018, which was during his first term in office.
Several of his recent posts have drawn intense backlash, including an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus and another in which he threatened to destroy an entire civilization in a single night.
