Trump, 80, Shares AI Video of Machine Gun-Toting 'Donald Ducks' Guarding Lake America
Key Takeaways
- •Trump shared an AI-generated 34-second video depicting armed geese patrolling Lake Ontario to the "Hawaii Five-O" theme.
- •The post followed his executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," after a similar renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."
- •The Great Lakes are shared by the U.S. and Canada, with naming matters tied to the binational 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty.
- •Republican Rep. Stephanie Bice criticized the lake renaming as unhelpful amid concerns about "Trump fatigue."
- •Some Trump supporters, including commentator Eric Daugherty, praised the video on X despite geese and ducks being different birds.
Canadian geese with orange hair, muscular hands and machine guns patrol Lake Ontario in President Donald Trump's latest AI-generated video, which the president himself dubbed a fever dream of "Donald Ducks."
Trump, 80, shared the bizarre clip as criticism and ridicule mount over his trade war with Canada and his executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America." The lake renaming is the latest in a series of geographic rebrandings Trump has pursued, following his earlier executive order redesignating the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." Canada and the U.S. share the Great Lakes, and any change affecting their naming touches a binational relationship managed in part under the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty.
The post also appeared soon after The Bulwark revealed audio of a Trump loyalist bemoaning "Trump fatigue" she worried would drive Republican voters away from the polls.
"We're not helping ourselves today when we decide to rename Lake Ontario 'Lake America,'" said Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-OK). "I mean, yeah, these are not—this does not help the case, right?"
Trump apparently disagreed.
After a morning spent insulting CNN and praising Henry Enten, Trump shared a 34-second video of a phalanx of armed geese marching to the "Hawaii Five-O" theme song. The birds can be seen quacking, running, staring menacingly into the camera and shooting their machine guns into the sky. The clip is one of several AI-generated videos Trump has amplified on social media, a practice that has drawn attention as AI-generated imagery becomes increasingly prevalent in political communication.
Trump's followers on X were charmed and enchanted.
"President Trump just posted this gem," wrote political commentator Eric Daugherty. "Lake America, protected by Donald Ducks Pure gold."
Ducks and geese are different, science shows.
