By Megan Sanders, March 25, 2025
President Donald Trump continues to use his social media platform, Truth Social, to give insight into his incoming policy decisions and to attack his opponents.
Throughout the first few months of his presidency, he has posted an AI-generated video “Trump Gaza,” and he continues to make threats toward Hamas leaders and Palestinians if hostages aren’t released.
The AI video posted on Trump’s platform depicted the president taking control of the destructed Gaza Strip and turning it into a paradise-looking place with the golden-looking statues of him. The video depicts Gaza as a luxury waterfront property with casinos and money thrown in the air.
The Palestinians are not a part of this plan, according to Trump.
The video was posted by Trump not long after he announced his property development plans for Gaza during a press conference with the prime minister of Isreal, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the press conference, Trump said that the Gaza Strip should not go through the rebuilding process under the same leadership and should turn to surrounding countries to build domains that would occupy the Palestinians currently living in Gaza.
Marcos Scauso, a political science professor, said the video showed a level of self-justification and a lack of noticing consequences a lot of people worry about.
“I became extremely worried about this idea of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. That’s no joke,” Scauso said.
The video highlighted a statue of the president made from gold while a song played in the background with lyrics about a bright future under Trump for Gaza.
The video features Elon Musk, who is eating a flatbread and later walking with money falling around him, and Netanyahu, who is topless on the beach with Trump at the end of the video.
Giovanni Raimondo, a music industry studies student, said he believes Trump wants people to think the video is a good thing that is going to become a reality, but what he really wants is to take people’s homeland as his property.
“I don’t even know what the plot is,” Raimondo said. “It kind of just makes him look like a super villain.”
According to an article published by The Guardian, the video was originally made as political satire by Solo Avital, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker, while he explored the uses of an AI platform called Arcana.
Trump posted the video without the consent of Avital.
Jamill Lemon, a biotechnology graduate, said at first, he thought Trump paid someone to make the video.
“It kind of just goes to show he’s so blind that he can’t even see the layers of satire behind it,” Lemon said.
Since the time of Trump’s posts, Isreal has launched a ground invasion into Gaza after the end of ceasefire.
Feature image by Connor Lālea Hampton
