New fallout from insane Donald Trump video
Donald Trump’s infamously reckless nature was on full display when he promoted an AI-generated video about Gaza last week. The video’s creators, Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen, have since spoken out about what happened, saying the video was meant as a satirical, artistic response to world events and that Trump’s posting was both improper and unauthorized.
“It was not our intention to be a propaganda machine,” the creators explained to NBC News. Avital admitted he was “shocked” when Trump posted the video on Truth Social and Instagram with no caption or explanation at all, not to mention credit. The video, which featured an exaggerated depiction of a rebuilt Gaza, was never intended for partisan political use.
“At least give the context that this is something that was done with mixed intentions,” Vromen added. Vromen, who has expressed some support for Trump’s idea of a possible Gaza solution, nevertheless insisted that the video was satire, aimed at pushing Trump’s proposal “to an extreme level of imagination.”
Avital also said he was surprised that Trump would post a video that included a scene of “him dancing with a woman in a club that wasn’t his wife” and another showing “himself standing erected in the center of the city as a golden statue, like some sort of a dictator.” However, Trump either did not care or was perhaps amused to see these details before deciding to post the video.
Trump’s reckless, compulsive behavior is nothing new. Even the “Build the Wall” idea was not some carefully considered immigration policy but an attempt by the Trump campaign in 2016 to keep him on message. When Trump’s advisers came up with the phrase, the man-child ran with it, enjoying the xenophobic reaction it inspired at rallies. Trump does not fact-check, seek permission, credit sources, proceed carefully, plan properly, or care about consequences. Indeed, as this latest example shows, Trump is just as impulsive and irresponsible as we’ve known him to be.
Ron Leshnower is a lawyer and the author of several books, including President Trump’s Month