Right-wing influencers took to social media Tuesday and Wednesday to warn about future deepfakes that could emerge of Donald Trump. And all of the chatter has caused people to become very suspicious about why this is suddenly popping up now. “BREAKING: THE REGIME IS PRESSING THE DESPERATION BUTTON DEEPFAKES IMMINENT STAY FROSTY,” Jack Posobiec wrote on X Wednesday, referring to the Joe Biden administration, which he calls “the regime.
” Posobiec is the pro-Trump influencer with “extensive ties to white supremacists,” in the words of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who first made his name online by promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. But it’s not just Posobiec who’s warning social media consumers about supposed deepfakes on the horizon. Charlie Kirk, the leader of the pro-Trump group Talking Points USA, also sent out a warning on social media.
“You are about to see insanely desperate stuff from Democrats. Expect fake AI generated crap about Trump coming soon. Stay focused AND VOTE!” Kirk wrote on X Tuesday.
Trump has a history of calling very real videos and images deepfakes, or “ clean-fakes ” as he once dubbed them. Back in Dec. 2023 the conservative anti-Trump advocacy group The Lincoln Project released a video of several times when Trump misspoke or otherwise looked like an idiot.
The video included an infamous shot of the former president staring at an eclipse from the White House, really struggling with the word “anonymous” in 2018, and.