Did Donald Trump post a fake photo of himself walking with an alien? Yes, that's true: The president shared the photo of him walking next to an alien on his Truth Social account on May 17, 2026. An online detection tool rated the photo of the president with the alien as AI-generated.
The claim appeared in a May 17, 2026, post on X account @NewsWire_US (archived here). It opened:
Donald Trump shares AI-generated photo with an alien on Truth Social.
This is what the photo looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @NewsWire_US on X.)
Trump posted the image on his Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump on May 17, 2026. Just days after the Department of War released UFO files on May 8, 2026. The website Trump's Truth, an archive of his posts on Truth Social, captured his post with the photo with the alien. This is what Trump's post looked like on Truth Social at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @realDonaldTrump on Truth Social.)
Trump has previously shared AI-generated images on Truth Social. The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded the image was 98.8% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
