President Trump posted a wave of AI-generated content to Truth Social within a several-hour window, including an AI-generated “Trump 2028” poster styled after Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night,” followed by a “Hello, Greenland!” post and a map depicting Venezuela under the American flag, continuing a well-documented pattern of memes touching on a potential third term, U.S. control of Greenland, and Venezuela becoming an American state.
The “Trump 2028” Starry Night-style poster was part of a broader posting spree that also included other AI-generated content, such as images of U.S. fighter jets. The spree continued a pattern Trump established weeks earlier, when he posted a flurry of AI-generated memes referencing a third term on July 26, following jokes he made at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he wore a “Trump 2028” hat and referenced running again after describing himself as having won multiple elections.
Newsweek tracked a running list of Trump’s comments about serving beyond his current term, including an April 2025 Atlantic interview in which Trump said of a potential third term, “That would be a big shattering, wouldn’t it? Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter,” and an October 2025 exchange aboard Air Force One in which, asked whether he was ruling out another term, Trump said, “I would love to do it,” adding, “You’ll have to tell me.”
The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution states plainly that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” The amendment, ratified in 1951 after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to four terms, is available in full at the National Archives. Because Trump has already been elected president twice, in 2016 and 2024, constitutional experts broadly agree he is barred from being elected to a third term in 2028, regardless of any social media posts or public musings to the contrary.
Trump posted a graphic on May 12 depicting Venezuela with an American flag and the label “51st State,” while traveling to China for a summit. The post came a day after Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, said her country had “never” considered becoming a U.S. state, telling reporters at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, “We will continue to defend our integrity, our sovereignty, our independence, our history.” Trump had told Fox News the day before that he was “seriously considering” the idea, citing Venezuela’s oil reserves, which he has estimated at roughly $40 trillion.
The Venezuela statehood posts follow the Jan. 3 U.S. military operation that captured then-President Nicolás Maduro, after which Trump announced the U.S. would run the country temporarily until a transfer of power to a new government could be arranged. Rodríguez, Maduro’s former vice president, has since overseen a thaw in relations with Washington, reopening the country’s oil and mining sectors to U.S. companies including Exxon and ConocoPhillips.
Trump has separately posted a series of AI-generated images depicting American control of Greenland since January, including graphics showing him planting a U.S. flag on the island alongside Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with signage reading “Greenland, U.S. Territory Est. 2026.” In one overnight posting spree in January, Trump wrote that he had a “very good telephone call” with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about Greenland, adding, “Greenland is imperative for National and World Security. There can be no going back, on that everyone agrees.” Trump has cited national security concerns, including preventing Russian and Chinese influence in the Arctic, as justification.
Greenland’s government has firmly rejected the idea. The territory’s parliament, the Inatsisartut, issued a statement saying it “cannot accept the repeated statements regarding annexation and control of Greenland.” Denmark has similarly opposed the idea while facing Trump’s threats of tariffs over the issue.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said the administration is not ruling out any approach to Greenland, saying officials are keeping “all options on the table” while emphasizing diplomacy as the preferred path.
Some viral social media posts attributed to Trump on these same topics have been confirmed as fabrications. PolitiFact and Check Your Fact both debunked a widely circulated screenshot in which Trump purportedly wrote he would “annex Greenland and mak[e] it the 52nd State” before also annexing Alaska, finding no evidence the post existed on any of Trump’s verified accounts.
Trump has made similar remarks about acquiring Canada and the Panama Canal since his transition to office began in late 2024, part of a broader pattern of territorial rhetoric that has periodically resurfaced through both formal remarks and social media imagery throughout his second term.
Both the Greenland and Venezuela posts were confirmed directly through their own Truth Social URLs, posted within roughly an hour of each other. The specific imagery and captions in each post could not be independently transcribed due to access restrictions, but both posts continue themes Trump has raised repeatedly since January and May, respectively, when similar Greenland flag-planting graphics and a Venezuela “51st State” map were each separately and extensively documented by mainstream outlets.
An X account tracking the July 26 posting spree counted more than 50 AI-generated images shared within a single day, ranging from Trump depicted alongside historical figures like George Washington and John F. Kennedy to images of U.S. forces seizing Iranian oil tankers, with supporters and critics offering starkly different reactions to the volume and content of the posts.
Neither the White House nor Trump’s office has indicated any of the imagery represents a formal policy proposal rather than commentary or provocation.