Is This The REAL Reason Trump Picked YESTERDAY To Troll Hard With AI?
Was it his intention to get people talking about AI?
From July 29th until yesterday, Trump’s Twitter/X had remained silent. And then, there was a FLURRY of activity. But there was something different about yesterday’s tweets.
Normally, when Trump tweets, he will tweet in his own very-recognizable style and ‘voice’. Sometimes, he’ll retweet a meme that he found funny. But yesterday was different.
After more than a month of silence, and the first time since he gave out the July 29 Tsunami warning, he blasted out not one, or two, or even three, but FIVE tweets in a single day. If you’re paying attention, the thing each of these videos has in common is the role AI plays in making the videos possible.
He started by trolling Pencil-neck Adam Schiff:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2025
Then he mocked Gavin by putting the Trump 2028 hat he’s been so verklempt about in plain sight.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2025
He took a victory lap for his role in helping Cracker Barrel fight off their disastrous rebrand.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2025
He cross-posted a Pritzker/Christie sumo match from his Truth Social account.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2025
And the video that’s red-meat for the Never Trumpers, he got a little help from AI imagining a little update to Mount Rushmore.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2025
For all the mocking he gets about his out-of-pocket use of mean tweets, ClashDaily has long held that someone whose entire life has been spent honing his skills in the carnival-barker world of sales and marketing has learned a trick or two along the way, and his use of Twitter is no different.
Since at least as far back as the ‘Stable Genius’ tweet, ClashDaily had held the theory that he has been employing a ‘lightning rod’ strategy of employing things like misspellings, provocative word uses, or outrageous claims to get a buzz going around a tweet that just happens to have information attached to hit that he wants the public to see. ‘Despite the negative press, covefe’; or ‘Very stable genius’ got a lot of buzz. So did the ‘my red button is bigger’ tweet. But it got people talking about — fairness of press coverage, or his perfect score on the cognitive test, or the imminent threat of North Korea’s sabre-rattling.
What does any of that have to do with a series of AI tweets from an account that was all but dormant?
Here’s the most likely explanation, posted by Trump’s rapid response team one day earlier:
DMA United CEO @MarcBeckman: "The West Wing is absolutely right in selecting @FLOTUS to lead this Presidential AI challenge… I think what Melania Trump is doing here is really critical. She's helping guide our next generation of leaders into the future." pic.twitter.com/4UziDGeIgI
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 3, 2025
Here she is setting the tone of the meeting:
FLOTUS: "As leaders and parents, we must manage AI's growth responsibly. During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children, empowering, but with watchful guidance."pic.twitter.com/kOmdrv567o
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) September 4, 2025
Trump was using the day to meet with tech leaders promising to invest big dollars into the growing US economy.