Trump faces backlash after posting ‘sick’ video of UK man killed by tiger
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US President Donald Trump posted disturbing footage on his Truth Social account on Tuesday displaying a person being fatally mauled by a tiger in Britain, sparking backlash on social media.
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Trump captioned the video “Don’t ever mess with nature!”
He later posted one other clip that includes apparently AI-generated footage of individuals being attacked by huge cats, accompanied by synthesiser music.
The unique 41-second clip, displaying the UK man being attacked at a wildlife park on Saturday, was additionally shared by the White House’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.
Later on Tuesday, Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself wrestling with and befriending a smiling tiger, set to the music “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
‘Disgusting’ and ‘sick’: Social media customers react to Trump’s video
Several customers commenting on the White House’s put up on X described the video as “disgusting” and “sick,” with some customers criticising it as disrespectful to the person who died within the assault.
“A household is grieving and also you resolve to put up their relations’ ultimate moments to your complete planet,” one person wrote.
“I voted for you however not for this. Can’t you simply get an intern to run your social media marketing campaign?” one other commented.
Trump has beforehand confronted backlash over controversial social media posts, together with AI-generated movies mocking marginalised teams and an image depicting himself as Jesus Christ, which he later deleted following criticism from spiritual teams.
The president and his administration have ceaselessly used AI-generated memes as a part of a method described as “memetic warfare” by Kurt Sengul, a researcher at Australia’s Macquarie University.
Speaking to Euronews final yr, Sengul mentioned this use of memes and generative AI creates an setting by which nothing seems to be taken significantly.
According to him, Trump’s strategy means that anybody offended by such content material is solely “humourless and may’t take a joke.”
