President Donald Trump marked the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, when the Allied powers stormed the beaches of Normandy during World War II, by sharing artificial intelligence-generated content that took aim at a range of his perceived opponents.
Saturday morning, the president shared an AI music video set to the song “Trump,” created by New York congressional candidate Anthony Constantino, who he recently endorsed. The video, which aimed to show admiration of Trump from around the world, featured clips of the president riding a lion, sharing a meal with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and at the UFC Freedom 250 cage fight at the White House. All the while, a house backing track repeats the line: “Everywhere I go, they love Donald Donald Trump.”
It was the only post on Trump’s Truth Social account for several hours on June 6 until he bragged about the new Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and then shared an AI-generated image of the Obama Presidential Library deteriorating, surrounded by homeless encampments and with a large pile of garbage on top of the structure.
“The Barack Hussein Obama Library, in 10 years, when fully matured!” Trump wrote.
But the U.S. president did not post anything on Truth Social marking the anniversary of D-Day, and continued in the afternoon to mock what appeared to be Rosie O’Donnell and accused Judge Richard Leon, who temporarily halted above ground construction of the White House ballroom, of “putting our Country in danger.”
Other world leaders, such as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, acknowledged the day on social media.
Trump has acknowledged D-Day in previous years. In 2024, he posted a video of himself virtually chatting with D-Day heroes in addition to a statement acknowledging soldiers who died. In 2023, he posted a video montage of D-Day, paid for by his re-election campaign.
Members of the Trump administration and federal departments also marked D-Day with social media posts remembering those who fought in the battle. Even the White House official X page posted in remembrance of those who gave their lives on June 6, 1944.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who attended a D-Day commemoration in France over the weekend, spoke about the anniversary but also tied it to the current administration’s fraught relationship with Europe’s approach to immigration.
“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different, dangerous ideologies,” Hegseth said Saturday. “Beaches in Spain, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria, boats and men arrive.”
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?” he added. “I pray not, and I believe not.”
The defense secretary’s comments mirror statements Trump has made in the past, criticizing European leaders for not taking a more hardline approach to immigration.
In his second term, the president has been more critical of U.S. allies, particularly part of NATO, for relying too heavily on the U.S. for military support. He’s accused NATO allies of not supporting the US, particularly for his war with Iran.
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