The AI images Trump can’t get enough of

Who wouldn’t want to be a king, a footballer, a friend of lions, a maestro and Jesus?

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In Donald Trump’s telling, the image showed him as a medical professional, never mind the lack of training.

“It’s supposed to be me as a doctor making people better,” Trump said, responding to the outrage after he posted an AI-generated photo which critics – including some on the right – say showed him as a Jesus Christ-figure.

A king

A skilled footballer

A person roaring with a lion

A maestro

What I think is supposed to be a rich guy, but instead looks like a money launderer

Superman

A 1930s-era private dick

Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now

A Nobel peace prize winner

A very muscly Sith lord