Trump's 'insane' AI image posting spree alarms onlookers: 'Pure delusion’

Systemic Error Podcast · Sep 8, 2026 · 4m

Presidential Theater, Real PowerThe source issue is not confusionDonald Trump spent hours on Truth Social posting more than 40 AI-generated images, including fantasies about an Iranian oil tanker, cheap shots at late-night comedians, and the usual Rosie O’Donnell fixation. The reporting treats this as a moment of alarm, and it is. But the real political fact is simpler: the president is using the machinery of attention like a private humiliation engine while still occupying the most powerful office in the country.Power is not being misread hereTrump holds the institutional power. He is the…