Did a projector cast onto Trump Tower a cartoon of Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino spilling blood? No, that's not true: The video was created by an artist who told Lead Stories the drawing was theirs, but the montage superimposing it on Trump Tower is AI-generated. The artist previously published the same image of Bovino on their website and on social media.
The claim appeared in a January 26, 2026 video posted on X.com account @channeldraw (archived here and here). It opened:
Greg Bovino at Trump Tower...
This is what the post looked like on X.com at the time of writing:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com/channeldrawstatus/2015784769259290887.)
The account is run by Gianluca Costantini, an artist who has created numerous political cartoons and videos about current events, including ICE raids across the United States.
Costantini told Lead Stories via email on Jan. 27, 2026, that he created the video, writing:
The montage on Trump Tower is AI-generated. The drawing is mine.
Costantini posted a drawing of Bovino, the commander-at-large of the U.S. Border Patrol, wearing a greatcoat on his website, channeldraw.org, and on his X account, as this screenshot shows:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from X.com/channeldraw/status/2015722493382692962.)
The image created by Costantini shows him in a long coat like the one he was photographed wearing in Minnesota in Jan. 2026. Critics of Bovino have noted its similarity to the greatcoats worn by Nazi officers during WWII, as the New York Times reported, as this screenshot shows:
(Image Source: Lead Stories screenshot from nytimes.com.)
Had such a video been projected on Trump Tower, the Manhattan home of President Donald Trump, it would have been major news. Lead Stories searched Google (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and found no matching news stories about a projection.
