{"id":253207,"date":"2026-05-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/donald-trump-needs-artificial-intelligence-he-lacks-the-other-kind\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:45:39","slug":"donald-trump-needs-artificial-intelligence-he-lacks-the-other-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/donald-trump-needs-artificial-intelligence-he-lacks-the-other-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump needs artificial intelligence. He lacks the other kind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump needs artificial intelligence. He lacks the other kind<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/05\/23\/donald-trump-needs-artificial-intelligence-he-lacks-the-other-kind\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-23 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Has anyone fallen deeper in love with artificial intelligence than Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

The man who threatened to sue the places he attended school to stop them from releasing his grades\u00a0and who, while playacting as president, regularly badmouths his own country\u2019s intelligence agencies, loves the fakery made possible by AI.<\/p>\n

That makes perfect sense. AI is like a fantasy mirror, before which our artificial president cannot stop admiringly preening.<\/p>\n

Just as AI is useful for lazy students who don\u2019t want to write that term paper, it\u2019s an unnatural boon for a narcissistic con man. Trump relishes utilizing AI to disparage his political opponents and \u2014 most deliciously for him and most gag-inducingly for normal people \u2014 to create heroic images of himself, like some latter-day demented Roman emperor.<\/p>\n

Someone as lazy and uncreative as Trump is drawn to AI to robotically whip up ludicrous images of himself as Superman or some other musclebound superhero. His AI-generated video showing himself as \u201cKing Trump\u201d\u00a0piloting a fighter jet and dumping a load of feces on No Kings protesters protest was typically puerile and grotesque.<\/p>\n

His\u00a0depictions of himself as the pope or, more recently, as Jesus managed to hit the trifecta: They were adolescent, ludicrous and deeply offensive.<\/p>\n

Those are only a few examples of the increasing number of AI-generated deepfake images that the childish mind occupying the Mar-a-Lago North (otherwise known as the White House) has posted so far in his second term.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, by indefatigably puffing himself up as a genius businessman who belonged on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans \u2014 often through the persona of \u201cTrump spokesman\u201d John Barron \u2014 or by putting his own face on a faux Time magazine cover, Donald Trump was a deepfake decades before the advent of AI.<\/p>\n

By puffing himself up as a genius businessman who belonged on the Forbes list of the wealthiest Americans \u2014 often through the persona of \u201cTrump…<\/p>\n

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