WASHINGTON — The official White House account on X posted an AI-generated video Sunday night depicting President Donald Trump as the DC Comics hero Green Lantern, closing out a weekend in which Trump filled his own Truth Social feed with dozens of AI images of himself.
The clip, posted at 8:58 p.m. Sept. 6, shows Trump raising a hand bearing a glowing green power ring. ComicBookMovie described a border wall in a desert landscape, factory buildings and U.S. military ships and aircraft; CBS12 reported the words “American Manufacturing” appearing over an industrial city. The caption is the Green Lantern Corps oath: “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might beware my power… Green Lantern’s light!”
As of Monday afternoon the post showed 33.6 million views, 88,000 likes and 18,000 replies.
The video carried no disclosure label. X’s own AI labels appeared on replies in the thread — “Made with Grok Imagine” on one, “Made with AI” on another — but not on the White House video.
ComicBookMovie counts it as the fourth time in 13 months the account has posted Trump in a major franchise costume, each timed to that franchise’s own news: the Superman poster the night before the film opened in July 2025, Trump as Din Djarin with Grogu on Star Wars Day in May amid promotion for “The Mandalorian & Grogu,” a James Bond-style poster days later after Amazon MGM announced 007 auditions, and now Green Lantern.
The post landed about an hour before HBO Max released the fourth episode of “Lanterns,” the DC Studios series starring Aaron Pierre as John Stewart and Kyle Chandler as Hal Jordan, at 9 p.m. Eastern Sept. 6. The White House caption names neither the show nor DC. Neither DC Studios nor Warner Bros. Discovery had publicly commented as of Monday afternoon, and no legal action has been announced.
The White House posted an altered “Superman” poster with Trump as the Man of Steel in July 2025, captioned in part “THE SYMBOL OF HOPE. TRUTH. JUSTICE. THE AMERICAN WAY.” Actor Patrick Dougall was among those posting “Warner Bros, PLEASE sue,” Yahoo News reported. Warner Bros. never did. What did follow was a fabricated story that director James Gunn had filed a $1 billion copyright suit over the poster, which Snopes rated false on July 15, 2025.
Trump posted separately on Truth Social. The Daily Beast counted 37 posts in a Sunday afternoon spree, including a painting of Trump on horseback beside George Washington and images of Trump commanding humanoid robots. Salon and CBS12 both reported captions on the robot images reading “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES” and “THEY WILL DREAM OF US FOREVER.” Trump’s Truth Social feed is not readable without an account, and the individual posts could not be independently opened.
By Monday morning Trump had returned to text, marking Labor Day with a message greeting “the Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, and Dumocrats who will do anything possible to destroy our Country.”
The reply thread runs heavily to mockery, not all of it from the president’s opponents: Alex Jones replied, “Looks cool, now release the second half of the Epstein list and prosecute the cult..,” a reply that drew 14,000 likes.
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 1,166 adults taken Aug. 14-17, 33 percent approved of Trump’s job performance and 64 percent disapproved, with a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
The White House has not said who produced the video, what tool made it, or what it cost.