{"id":886674,"date":"2026-09-07T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886674\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:38:10","slug":"trump-says-he-made-hundreds-of-billions-on-stocks-in-ai-posting-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886674\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he made &#8216;Hundreds of Billions&#8217; on stocks in AI posting spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> posted a stream of AI-generated images and a series of sweeping and unverified claims on Truth Social on Sunday, including saying that he <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117225700476536773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has made hundreds of billions of dollars<\/a> on stocks and other holdings for the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>The 80-year-old commander in chief spent more than 10 hours on Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posting dozens of apparently AI-generated images<\/a> on his social media platform. The posts included a depiction of Iran&#8217;s defeat, Trump on horseback with George Washington, and an apparently AI-generated image of Robert De Niro holding a shirt that read, &#8220;Trump is my president.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One AI image appears to show the president sitting in front of several monitors in the White House tracking the stock market with a caption that reads: &#8220;I do this for our Country, not myself. I&#8217;ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A., not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!&#8221; The post offered no evidence for the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously come under fire for launching &#8220;Truth API,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/12\/trump-truth-social-lawsuit.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$100,000-a-month Truth Social feature<\/a> that gives early access to announcements about policy decisions that could move financial markets. U.S. Senators urged the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/07\/29\/trump-media-djt-warren-schiff-wall-street-api.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a> in July to investigate whether Trump Media \u2014 the parent company behind Truth Social \u2014 is violating applicable federal securities laws with Truth API. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/108353197-17875714461787571441-47955911690-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Media Interim CEO Kevin McGurn on Truth API: This was demand that came to us from the market\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The president is no stranger to posting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/29\/trump-iran-threat-ai-picture-gun-war-strait-of-hormuz.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI-generated content<\/a> and has done so frequently during the ongoing U.S.-Iran war, including a post that showed him  holding a gun with explosions in the background, and the words &#8220;NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment seeking further details about the images. <\/p>\n<p><a id=\"headline0\"\/>Iran<a id=\"headline1\"\/>Trump in heroic roles<a id=\"headline2\"\/>American dominance <\/p>\n<p>Trump, who built his political brand around the &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; slogan, has called for reasserting U.S. power at home and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>His AI posting spree also included images that depicted countries, territories, and objects as U.S. possessions or territory, including natural and celestial landmarks. <\/p>\n<p>One AI image shows the <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117226613956728091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a> as a &#8220;new U.S. Territory,&#8221; and in another, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117225349620809512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Mexico<\/a> becomes &#8220;New America.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In another post, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117225384741591978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Moon is shown<\/a> with the words &#8220;The Moon is Ours,&#8221; and the American flag to the side. In another post, an image labels <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/117225349092174399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lake Ontario<\/a>, which currently has borders split between the U.S. and Canada, asLake America. <\/p>\n<p>It comes after Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/08\/27\/trump-canada-lake-america-ontario.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed an executive order<\/a> directing the federal government to change the name of Lake Ontario to &#8220;Lake America.&#8221; Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded at the time by saying his country will keep calling it Lake Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with travel industry executives in the Oval Office of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,4615,2158,45,161,49,48,1377,1376,13626,24744,5897,20015,714,23344,1942,61,148061,772],"class_list":["post-886674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-breaking-news-technology","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-and-politics","tag-iran","tag-national-security","tag-politics","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-trump-media-and-technology-group-equty-warrants-exp-25th-mar-2029","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}