{"id":741,"date":"2026-05-18T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:39:37","slug":"trump-posts-ai-slop-featuring-shackled-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Trump posts AI slop featuring shackled alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US president has ordered the Pentagon to declassify its UFO files, with the last batch published just over a week ago<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has posted a glitchy AI-generated image of himself alongside a shackled alien in his latest flurry of space-themed Truth Social posts on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The post came just over a week after the US War Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639673-pentagon-declassifies-ufo-files\/\">declassified <\/a>a batch of government files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), spanning more than a hundred historic documents, reports, photographs and videos of various unexplained phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump\u2019s post, the alien \u2013 portrayed as a tall grey-skinned humanoid with a bald head and large black eyes \u2013 is flanked by the president, several Secret Service agents and a US soldier. The restraints on its wrists appear to be only partially generated. Trump did not explain or caption the image.<\/p>\n<figure>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/original\/6a0b2616203027226152e1a8.png\"><figcaption>\n<p>                <span class=\"copyright\"><br \/>\n                      \u00a9\u00a0 @realDonaldTrump\/Truth Social                                                        <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In another set of AI-generated images, Trump is portrayed at a console in a space station, with images of satellites and missiles being shot down in the background. One post shows the US president <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116591989539415412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">five to six times larger<\/a> than the officers that surround him as he holds his fingers on a big red button.<\/p>\n<p>The images are labelled <em>\u201cSpace Force.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.04\/thumbnail\/69f0d5332030275d614b70a5.jpg\" alt=\"US Army conducts THAAD missile system training exercise at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, Feb. 6, 2019.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/639208-golden-dome-peer-competitors\/\">Pentagon admits \u2018no defense\u2019 against Russian and Chinese hypersonic weapons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since returning to office in 2025, Trump has pushed to establish the Golden Dome program, proposing a massive investment in US ground- and space-based interception capabilities \u2013 potentially topping a trillion dollars over the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has characterized the program as urgently needed.<\/p>\n<p>The US has <em>\u201cvery limited capability\u201d<\/em> against ballistic missiles and <em>\u201cno defense against hypersonic weapons or cruise missiles today,\u201d<\/em> Assistant Secretary of War for Space Policy Marc Berkowitz told lawmakers in the Senate last month. Russia, China, India and some other nations have developed and deployed hypersonic missiles in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president has ordered the Pentagon to declassify its UFO files, with the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}