{"id":77955,"date":"2026-08-27T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/ai-slopper-in-chief-trump-turns-to-social-media-amid-tough-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T05:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:57:08","slug":"ai-slopper-in-chief-trump-turns-to-social-media-amid-tough-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/ai-slopper-in-chief-trump-turns-to-social-media-amid-tough-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump knows the power of an image \u2013 of himself, with everyone from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/aug\/15\/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-ukraine\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/28\/how-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-misread-each-other-hanoi-summit\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/may\/31\/donald-trump-holds-summit-with-kim-kardashian-west\">Kim Kardashian<\/a>. How about George Washington?<\/p>\n<p>As the US president struggles to end his war with Iran, and with his approval ratings hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-approval-falls-33-lowest-his-presidency-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-08-17\/\">the lowest<\/a> levels of his second term, he has in recent weeks posted a series of AI-generated images of himself alongside key historical American figures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/27\/trump-truth-social-ai-george-washington\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US president struggles to end his Iran war, and approval ratings hit new lows, he leans on a familiar gambit Donald Trump knows the power of an image \u2013 of himself, with everyone from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un to Kim Kardashian. How about George Washington? As the US president struggles to end &#8230; <a title=\"AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/27\/ai-slopper-in-chief-trump-turns-to-social-media-amid-tough-questions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AI slopper in chief: Trump turns to social media amid tough questions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}