Two figures with white hair and red suits, standing in front of Donald Trump in what appears to be the White House garden. The scene looked real. Too real. 🤨
Recently, a wave of images and videos began flooding social media with a precise narrative: Trump had posted photos alongside extraterrestrials on his official accounts and had deleted them almost immediately, but users captured them before they disappeared. The detail of the ‘urgent deletion’ did the rest — that kind of story that makes you think something is being hidden. The images reached accounts with millions of followers and the debate exploded. 👽
The truth, according to fact-checkers and experts consulted by Excélsior, is clinical: the images were generated with artificial intelligence. There is no proof that Trump posted or deleted them. What does exist — and this is what gives the hoax plausibility — is that Trump voluntarily posted on Truth Social an AI image showing a handcuffed extraterrestrial walking beside him at a military base.
And that his own government pushed for the declassification of files on unidentified aerial phenomena. The ground was fertile for believing anything. 🛸