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The president has courted controversy over his frequent AI-generated posts in recent months and has even been forced to delete a few after facing backlash. The biggest of these controversies erupted in April after the president shared a post depicting himself as Jesus Christ, amid his feud with Pope Leo XIV. The post triggered major outcry and even drew criticism from some Republican officials. Trump eventually took down the post but followed it up a few days later with another AI image showing him embraced by Jesus in front of an American flag. Trump has also shared several of the AI-generated images depicting himself and other members of his cabinet swimming in the renovated Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool and presenting the landmark as a sewer under previous Democratic administrations. In May, he also shared an AI-generated caricature surrounded by former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while someone else signs what appears to be a presidential order.
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