Trump's AI 'Donald Ducks' Invasion Video Draws Mockery From U.S. and Canadian Critics
Key Takeaways
- •Trump posted an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing armed geese styled with his hairstyle invading Canada from "Lake America."
- •The post followed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, which had prompted jokes about calling the lake's Canadian geese "Donald Ducks."
- •Critics on both sides of the border, including former GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger and Canadian radio host Dean Blundell, sharply criticized the post.
- •Trump has repeatedly suggested Canada should become the 51st U.S. state, a proposal Canadian officials across party lines have rejected.
- •The post adds to a pattern of the president sharing AI-generated imagery on Truth Social, a practice drawing scrutiny as synthetic media grows in politics.

A Truth Social post by President Donald Trump depicting "Donald Ducks" invading Canada has baffled critics on both sides of the border.
On Saturday, Trump posted an AI-generated video showing armed geese styled with his hairstyle invading from "Lake America." The post followed Trump's signing of an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America, an action that had already prompted jokes about renaming the Canadian geese living in the Great Lake "Donald Ducks." Onlookers in both the United States and Canada responded with collective online facepalming.
The post is the latest in a series of provocative gestures toward Canada, a country Trump has repeatedly suggested should become the 51st U.S. state—remarks that Canadian officials across party lines have rejected. It also adds to a pattern of the president sharing AI-generated imagery on Truth Social, a practice that has drawn scrutiny as synthetic media becomes more prevalent in political communication.
Canadian radio host and podcaster Dean Blundell lamented in a post on X that Trump "dominates news cycles on a weekend. He does this from a gilded toilet behind fences and a wall of secret security because he's a p--. Americans would burn down the White House if he tried to 'invade' Canada."
"This dude is losing his mind," wrote former GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger about Trump. "Can't win a war but obsesses in AI like the unhinged boomer he is."
Canadian activist Marlene Robertson called Trump "a failed president with not a single achievement to call his own."
American disability rights advocate James Tate reacted to Trump's post by bemoaning, "Another day another embarrassment."
Canadian lawyer and author Warren Kinsella described the video as what happens "when a president starts dropping acid."
"If this country cannot come to a consensus that our president is insane, that raises a whole host of concerns regarding our society's ability to discern anything at all, ever," warned American author Jennifer Erin Valent. "Few things are as obvious as the fact that Trump has lost what was left of his disordered mind."
"The United States has just threatened our country Canada with an armed attack and invasion," declared Canadian political staffer Michael Gerald Gibbs. "If the Americans don't impeach and remove their President and Vice President immediately the entire world should meet to discuss collective actions to deter them."