Viral AI videos mock Trump Amid US‑Iran war, stir social nedia frenzy

A wave of AI‑generated videos and memes mocking US President Donald Trump has exploded across Chinese state‑controlled and wider social media, grabbing attention amid the ongoing US-Iran war.

CNN correspondent Will Ripley reports that one of the most shared clips comes from Iran’s embassy in China, a synthetic video portraying an exchange between a reporter character and a Trump character about an attack on a school. In the clip, the fabricated Trump denies US involvement, even making the bizarre claim that “America doesn’t have Tomahawk missiles at all.”

According to Ripley, Beijing’s censors have allowed these AI‑driven pieces to spread, amplifying narratives that cast Trump as “evil and dishonest” while portraying China as morally superior and advocating peace. The reports show animated scenes and satire rolling out widely on platforms like Weibo and other Chinese social feeds.

One recurring video portrays an eagle, symbolising the US, telling bystander seagulls that security sometimes requires control, only to trap them in a cage marked “Other Countries.” These metaphors are being replayed to depict American foreign policy as hypocritical and self‑serving.

The frenzy hasn’t stopped at animation. Viral political cartoons and memes flood feeds, including a captioned image labelling Trump as “a Nobel Peace Prize winner who devours kids” beside a pile of skulls, and another tying rising oil prices to US-Israel military actions in the Middle East.

Chinese media outlets have also run critical headlines such as “The security of Hormuz doesn’t depend on the number of warships patrolling it,” reinforcing the idea that U.S. approaches to the conflict are militaristic rather than stabilising.

On Weibo, users scoff at the US response to the conflict and Trump himself. Some mock comments include suggestions that Trump is making excuses because he “won’t be able to come to China,” and others claim the US has “crippled their own strength” by mismanaging diplomatic and military priorities.

In parallel, the White House’s own online presence, including footage of Trump in a prayer circle with religious leaders, has been reshared and ridiculed extensively on Chinese social media, where users have turned it into another meme fodder, deepening the tide of digital taunts.

What began as satire and animated clips has morphed into a broader social media phenomenon, with AI‑generated content shaping and distorting the international narrative around the war and the US role in it.