{"id":492200,"date":"2026-06-10T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:32:13","slug":"albanias-pm-posts-ai-video-of-himself-in-miniskirt-in-swipe-at-online-influencers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/492200\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania’s PM posts AI video of himself in miniskirt in swipe at online influencers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Published on 09\/06\/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2\u2022Updated
\n 12:02\n <\/p>\n

Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama reposted an AI video of himself wearing a leather mini skirt and bra on his Instagram profile in an apparent swipe against influencers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever made this, well done,\u201d he wrote in the post accompanying the video.<\/p>\n

The video refers to remarks Rama made during a public event on 7 June, where he mocked bloggers and influencers who supported ongoing protests against a controversial luxury development linked to Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kusher, part of which is due to be built in a conservation area.<\/p>\n

In that speech, Rama argued that many influencers make money by promoting themselves on social media while paying no taxes to the state.<\/p>\n

Rama said that \u201cbloggers should challenge each other, one dressed as a flamingo and another dressed as me and see who wins.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protesters have carried cardboard cut-outs of pink flamingos, one of the protected migratory bird species, at rallies in the capital Tirana.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Rama claimed that influencers joined the protests mainly for attention and lacked a real understanding of the situation.<\/p>\n

The government says the development on the Adriatic coast would be transformational for the former communist nation as it seeks to enter the high-end tourism market and pushes for European Union membership.<\/p>\n

But the venture, spanning a protected island and a nearby stretch of seafront on Albania\u2019s southern coast, has drawn opposition from environmental campaigners and critics of long-time Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama.<\/p>\n

The luxury project has two components: a coastal development in the Narta Lagoon area, which is a wildlife reserve, and a smaller resort on the nearby uninhabited island of Sazan, a communist-era military base.<\/p>\n

The planned development of hotels, apartments, villas and a marina is linked to Kushner and Trump\u2019s daughter, Ivanka Trump.<\/p>\n

An investment firm linked to Kushner has been granted special investor status by Albanian authorities.<\/p>\n

Albania has 450 kilometres of coast that remained largely underdeveloped during decades of communist rule.<\/p>\n

Protest groups fear the sections of that pristine coastline could be snapped up by powerful investors. And public anger grew after video showed an activist being dragged by a private security guard while demonstrating at the site.<\/p>\n

The development is planned within a nature reserve and one of Albania\u2019s most valuable biodiversity areas, a key stopover for migratory birds along the Adriatic coast.<\/p>\n

Since late May, excavators and other heavy machinery have entered the area, opening access routes, digging into the sand, clearing land among pine trees and installing fencing.<\/p>\n

Environmental groups from Albania and elsewhere in Europe condemned the work, with one prominent local group charging that long-protected habitats are being “irreversibly destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional sources \u2022 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 09\/06\/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2\u2022Updated 12:02 Albania\u2019s Prime Minister Edi Rama reposted an AI video of himself…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,11551,218,219,1664,15365,87545,61,60,125096,80,3227],"class_list":["post-492200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-albania","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-conservation","tag-edi-rama","tag-hotel-industry","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jared-kushner","tag-technology","tag-wildlife-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}