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00:16Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself on Truth Social.
00:20Flowing white robes, purple sash, glowing hand on a sick man's forehead,
00:26fighter jets in the background, Israeli flags, what some people described as,
00:32and I'm not making this up, demonic imagery.
00:35Trump said he thought it showed him as a doctor.
00:39Iran looked at the same picture and said,
00:42Trump is bringing Epstein and the Zionist regime back to life.
00:46And honestly, the internet has not recovered since.
00:51We're living in a moment where one of the most consequential geopolitical conflicts
00:56in decades — U.S. vs. Iran — is also being fought through memes,
01:01AI images, and propaganda so sharp it goes viral before the bombs do.
01:07And this week, Iran landed what might be its most effective strike yet.
01:12Not a missile, not a drone, a caption.
01:16So here's what Trump actually posted on April 12th — an AI-generated image.
01:22Trump in the center, wearing flowing white and purple robes,
01:26straight out of a Renaissance painting of Jesus Christ.
01:29One glowing hand pressed to the forehead of a man lying in a hospital bed.
01:34Dramatic divine lighting.
01:36Fighter jets overhead.
01:37Israeli flags.
01:39Background imagery that multiple outlets described as apocalyptic.
01:43This was posted, by the President of the United States,
01:47on his own social media platform — voluntarily.
01:51The backlash?
01:52Was instant.
01:54And it didn't just come from the left.
01:55Trump deleted the post, then told reporters it wasn't meant to show him as Christ,
02:01it was showing him as a doctor, making people better — maybe related to the Red Cross.
02:07The explanation satisfied approximately nobody.
02:12Enter IRIB News, Iran's official state broadcaster.
02:17They looked at this image.
02:18They looked at the sick man lying in the hospital bed — who, the Internet had already noticed,
02:24bore a striking resemblance to Jeffrey Epstein — and they ran the image with a single caption.
02:29Trump is bringing Epstein and the Zionist regime back to life.
02:34It spread across social media within hours.
02:38And this wasn't Iran's first rodeo.
02:40IRIB has been running an increasingly sophisticated propaganda operation.
02:45Lego-style animations of Trump, Netanyahu, and Satan reviewing Epstein files together.
02:52Disney's inside-out-style videos portraying Trump as controlled by evil impulses.
02:58Iran didn't Photoshop Trump into Jesus robes.
03:01Trump did that.
03:02Iran didn't connect him to Epstein.
03:05The Internet did that.
03:06Iran didn't create the association with Israeli military action.
03:11Trump's own foreign policy did that.
03:13All IRIB did was put it in one frame and write one sentence.
03:19And this matters beyond the laughs.
03:21Because it is part of a deliberate and escalating information war.
03:26While U.S. warships blockade the Strait of Hormuz,
03:29Iranian tunnel bases get dug back open during the ceasefire, while drones get shot down over
03:35international waters, there is a parallel conflict happening entirely in the media space.
03:41And Iran has decided its weapons in that conflict are Western cultural references,
03:47A.I. tools, and America's own contradictions.
03:51The Strait of Hormuz must be shot, blockade, blockade, in my head just blocked out.
04:00But, please let the ships go through.
04:05Come on at least a few.
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04:19Bye-bye.
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