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Trump floods social media with AI image portraying all of North and Central America as U.S. territory

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

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  • Donald Trump posted an apparently AI-generated map depicting Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America as U.S. territory.
  • The image labeled the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America” and appeared during a holiday weekend when Trump shared multiple AI-generated images.
  • The report frames the post as another expression of Trump’s stated territorial ambitions toward neighboring regions.

Donald Trump posted a map that colored virtually all of North and Central America in the red, white and blue of the U.S. flag and labeled the region “United States.” The apparently AI-generated image included Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the Caribbean and every country in Central America.

The U.S. president shared the image on Truth Social on the seventh, local time. Canada and Greenland appeared with red-and-white stripes, making them look as though they were part of U.S. territory. The Gulf of Mexico also appeared under the name “Gulf of America.”

Trump offered no particular explanation with the post, but the report presents it as a display of territorial ambitions involving Canada and Greenland. It says he had repeatedly used fictional images to make his desire for U.S. territorial expansion explicit.

The post came as Trump released a succession of AI-generated images throughout the Labor Day holiday.

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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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