Donald Trump’s September 6 Truth Social feed included giant killer robots, explosions, a throne, George Washington, a muscular wrestling-style version of himself, a claim that “THE MOON IS OURS,” and imagery celebrating military pressure on Iran. This article is not an attempt to diagnose the U.S. president. It asks a simpler question: is this appropriate communication from the person holding the most powerful political office in the United States?
On September 6, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump’s verified Truth Social account went through an extraordinary burst of posting.
The feed mixed political claims and economic charts with memes and apparently AI-generated or digitally manipulated imagery. . Some portrayed Trump as a conquering military leader. Others placed him beside enormous armed robots, George Washington, or in exaggerated heroic poses. One depicted an attack on Iran’s Kharg Island accompanied by the words “Bye bye, Kharg.”
Mediaite reported that Trump had posted dozens of times that Sunday and specifically documented the robot images, the Kharg image, the George Washington material, the Hulk Hogan-style depiction and other memes. Independent archives of Trump’s Truth Social feed also preserve several of the posts from that afternoon.
And that raises a question worth discussing without exaggeration:
When did this become normal presidential communication?
First, this is not a mental-health diagnosis
It is tempting to look at such a collection of images and speculate about Donald Trump’s state of mind.
That would be a mistake.
A social-media feed cannot establish whether someone has a psychiatric or neurological condition, and this article makes no such claim.
There is also another perfectly plausible explanation: much of this material is deliberately theatrical.
Trump has used memes, exaggerated imagery, insults and spectacle as political communication for years. AI simply gives that style a much more powerful visual tool. Images that once required a graphic artist can now be produced in seconds.
The important issue therefore isn’t whether Trump personally believes he commands giant robots.
The issue is that the President of the United States has chosen to publish and amplify this imagery from his verified public Truth Social account.
That is something the public can legitimately evaluate.
“Give Them Nightmares”
One of the most striking images depicts Trump sitting on what resembles a futuristic throne surrounded by enormous black robotic warriors.
Across the bottom:
GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES
Another shows Trump standing in front of gigantic American-themed machines under a cracked moon:
THEY WILL DREAM OF US FOREVER
An archived copy confirms that the latter was posted to @realDonaldTrump at approximately 3:04 p.m. EDT on September 6, followed about a minute later by the “GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES” image.
Neither image should be mistaken for a literal statement of military capability.
They are fantasy.
But political imagery doesn’t have to be literal to communicate something.
The message is unmistakably one of dominance, intimidation and overwhelming force.
That might be relatively unremarkable coming from the promotional account for a science-fiction film.
It feels different coming from the president of a nuclear-armed country.
“They Will Never Sleep Again”
Another image uses similar imagery:
Trump walking forward through what appears to be a force of armed robotic soldiers, with the U.S. Capitol visible in the background.
The caption reads:
THEY WILL NEVER SLEEP AGAIN
Again, there is no reason to interpret giant robots literally.
But look at the repetition.
Nightmares.
Never sleeping again.
Explosions.
Military machines.
Enemies being frightened.
This isn’t one isolated meme appearing between ordinary policy announcements. It is a recurring visual theme.
The president is repeatedly represented as the central figure commanding enormous destructive power.
That makes it reasonable to ask what message the imagery is intended to send.
Then there was Kharg Island
One of the day’s more consequential posts was not simply superhero fantasy.
Trump shared an image appearing to show a U.S. aircraft approaching an exploding Iranian oil facility under the caption:
“Bye bye, Kharg.”
Kharg Island is crucial to Iran’s petroleum-export infrastructure.
Reporting on September 6 confirmed that Trump posted the image while highlighting economic and military pressure on Iran. Iran International separately documented the post and the accompanying Trump messages concerning Iran’s currency and oil exports.
That distinction matters.
This isn’t merely a politician depicting himself as a comic-book character.
It concerns an actual foreign country during an actual military confrontation.
When the president publishes an artificial image of strategic infrastructure exploding, people around the world have to determine whether they’re looking at:
- a joke,
- propaganda,
- a threat,
- a policy signal,
- a prediction,
- or a depiction of something that has actually happened.
Those distinctions matter enormously in international relations.
“The Moon Is Ours”
Then the feed left Earth entirely.
Another image showed the Moon with an American flag and the declaration:
THE MOON IS OURS 🇺🇸
The post itself is real and has been independently archived.
The statement is not, however, an accurate description of international space law.
The United States ratified the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, whose Article II states that outer space, including the Moon, is not subject to national appropriation through sovereignty, occupation or other means.
In other words:
America can explore the Moon. America cannot simply declare that the Moon belongs to America.
It may have been nothing more than patriotic humour.
But once again, that’s precisely the problem with this style of communication.
Where does the joke end and presidential policy begin?
Trump meets George Washington — apparently
Two more images brought America’s first and current presidents together.
One depicts George Washington sitting in the Oval Office beside Trump, captioned:
“President Washington visits President Trump.”
Another transforms the pair into mounted military figures in a painting reminiscent of Revolutionary-era artwork.
Nobody is going to mistake these for historical photographs.
That’s not the concern.
The symbolism places Trump directly beside one of America’s foundational historical figures.
Elsewhere in the same collection of posts, another graphic declares:
“HE WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME!”
Taken together, these images create a remarkably consistent narrative:
Trump as warrior.
Trump as commander.
Trump as historical giant.
Trump as conqueror.
Trump as protector.
Trump as the personification of America itself.
That is self-mythologizing political imagery, regardless of whether Trump himself produced the original artwork.
And that distinction is important too.
We should not claim Trump personally created these AI images unless their origin is established.
What we know is that his verified account chose to publish or repost them.
And then there’s the wrestling meme
Perhaps the least consequential image of the bunch is also one of the strangest.
Trump’s head appears on an exaggerated, muscular body resembling professional wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, complete with a MAGA cap and torn American clothing.
It is absurd.
It may also simply be funny to his supporters.
Political humour has existed as long as politics itself, and presidents aren’t required to communicate exclusively through sombre government statements.
The question isn’t whether a president is allowed to post a silly meme.
Of course he is.
The issue is the cumulative effect when the silly wrestling image sits beside simulated military destruction, threatening slogans, economic claims, geographic renaming and imagery portraying the president as an almost mythological commander.
“New Mexico” becomes “New America”
Another September 6 post showed a map of New Mexico with “Mexico” crossed out and replaced with “America.”
The White House subsequently amplified the image.
No formal explanation accompanied the original post, and reporting at the time found no announced formal process to rename the state.
For Canadians, this is particularly notable because it followed Trump’s recent campaign to refer to Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
What might ordinarily be dismissed as trolling has therefore become more difficult to separate from government action.
That is an important difference.
A president posting an absurd name-change meme is one thing.
A president repeatedly using such language while his administration takes steps to use those names officially is another.
Canada has already noticed the meme diplomacy
This isn’t simply a Canadian blogger finding Trump’s communication style unusual.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly criticized Washington’s approach on September 1, saying the Americans needed to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade” and become serious about negotiations.
His remarks came during deteriorating Canada–U.S. trade relations and increasingly provocative rhetoric from Washington.
That makes the meme issue more than cultural commentary.
When political memes become part of communications between governments, they can affect diplomacy.
Political leaders don’t have to like each other.
Countries don’t have to agree.
But communicating through threats, mockery and deliberately provocative imagery can make already difficult negotiations even harder.
AI has changed political propaganda
There is a larger issue here that extends well beyond Donald Trump.
Generative AI has demolished the cost and difficulty of producing political fantasy.
A candidate can now be shown:
flying a fighter jet,
commanding an army,
standing on Mars,
defeating an opponent,
meeting a historical figure,
or standing triumphantly over a destroyed city.
None of it ever had to happen.
Recent reporting has documented the rapidly growing use of AI throughout American political campaigns, with Trump’s political movement among the most enthusiastic adopters of openly artificial imagery.
Some of these images are obviously fake.
That arguably makes them less dangerous than a sophisticated deepfake intended to deceive voters.
But obvious fantasy can still function as propaganda.
It communicates emotion rather than information.
Strength.
Fear.
Victory.
Humiliation of enemies.
National dominance.
And perhaps most importantly:
the leader as hero.
The problem isn’t that Trump posts memes
Presidents are human beings.
They can tell jokes.
They can use social media.
They can tease political opponents.
They can even post ridiculous pictures of themselves.
That isn’t automatically dangerous or inappropriate.
But a president’s account also carries something an ordinary social-media account does not:
the authority of the presidency.
If a neighbour posts an AI image showing Iran’s oil facilities exploding, nobody assumes Canadian foreign policy has changed.
When the President of the United States does it during an actual confrontation with Iran, governments, militaries, financial markets and millions of ordinary people have reason to pay attention.
That places a greater responsibility on presidential communication.
Criticism doesn’t require a diagnosis
There is no need to claim that Donald Trump is mentally ill, cognitively impaired or psychologically unstable to find this material concerning.
In fact, avoiding those claims makes the criticism stronger.
We can simply look at what was published.
We can confirm where it came from.
And we can ask:
Is this how we expect the President of the United States to communicate?
Some Americans will undoubtedly answer yes.
They see Trump’s unpredictability, humour and aggressive style as strengths. They may view the imagery as trolling America’s enemies, entertaining supporters and projecting strength.
Others will see something very different: political communication increasingly resembling a combination of professional wrestling, science-fiction propaganda and social-media rage bait.
Both reactions are political judgments.
Neither requires an amateur medical diagnosis.
Perhaps the strangest thing is how normal this has become
Twenty years ago, imagine a U.S. president distributing an image of himself sitting on a futuristic throne surrounded by giant killing machines beneath the words:
GIVE THEM NIGHTMARES.
It would probably have dominated television news for days.
In 2026, it can become one post among dozens.
And perhaps that is the most interesting part of this story.
Not the robots.
Not the Moon.
Not George Washington.
Not even the Hulk Hogan body.
It’s how rapidly the standards governing communication from some of the world’s most powerful political offices have changed.
Artificial intelligence didn’t create political propaganda.
It didn’t create presidential ego.
It didn’t create nationalism, intimidation or political spectacle.
It simply made all of them much easier to turn into pictures.
The rest of us now have to decide whether that is merely entertaining — or whether something important has been lost along the way.
Verified Sources:
Trump’s Truth archive — “They Will Dream of Us Forever” — archived September 6, 2026 at 3:04 p.m. EDT and includes the original Truth Social status ID and original post URL.
View archived postTrump’s Truth archive — “Give Them Nightmares” — archived September 6, 2026 at 3:05 p.m. EDT, with the original Truth Social status ID and description of the throne/robot image.
View archived postTrump’s Truth archive — “The Moon Is Ours” — archived September 6, 2026 at 1:56 p.m. EDT and provides the original Truth Social status ID.
View archived postMediaite — September 6, 2026 — independently reports Trump’s large Truth Social posting spree and specifically identifies the giant-robot images, “Give Them Nightmares,” “They Will Dream of Us Forever,” Kharg Island, the Hulk Hogan-style image, George Washington imagery and the Moon post. This is probably the best single outside source for verifying the collection of screenshots.
Trump Brags He’s Made ‘Hundreds of Billions’ on StocksIran International — September 6, 2026 — specifically documents Trump’s posts about Iran’s economy, oil exports and the Kharg Island image.
Trump posts images touting pressure on Iran’s economy, attack on Kharg IslandReuters — September 1, 2026 — verifies Prime Minister Mark Carney’s criticism of the U.S. government’s tone and the deteriorating Canada–U.S. trade relationship.
Canada’s Carney says US needs to start being serious before trade talks can resumeAssociated Press — September 1, 2026 — independently reports Carney telling the Trump administration to “stop doing memes, stop throwing shade and stop trying to be tough.”
Carney tells Trump ‘Stop trying to be tough’UN Office for Outer Space Affairs — Outer Space Treaty — this is the authoritative source for the article’s statement that the Moon cannot simply be claimed as U.S. territory. Article II states that outer space, including the Moon, is not subject to national appropriation by a sovereignty claim, occupation or other means.
United Nations — Outer Space TreatyU.S. Department of State — Outer Space Treaty text — useful as a second authoritative source because it shows that this is also the U.S. government’s treaty text, not merely our interpretation of UN rules.
U.S. Department of State — Outer Space TreatyThe Washington Post — September 5, 2026 — useful for the broader section explaining how generative AI has become embedded in U.S. political communication. The Post reports on the growing use of generative AI in American political communication, including AI-generated memes and videos shared by Trump and the White House.
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