{"id":21769,"date":"2026-01-29T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:16","slug":"the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House &#8211; and what they teach us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here\u2019s what you need to know to navigate the trolling<\/p>\n<p>It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it\u2019s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling \u201cslopaganda\u201d \u2013 an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/oct\/02\/shitpost-us-white-house-trump-joke\">Shitposting<\/a>\u201d, the publishing of deliberately crude, offensive content online to provoke a reaction, has reached the level of \u201cinstitutional shitposting\u201d, according to Know Your Meme\u2019s editor Don Caldwell. This is trolling as official government communication. And nobody is more skilled at it than the Trump administration \u2013 a government that has not only allowed the AI industry all the regulative freedom it desires, but has embraced the technology for its own in-house purposes. Here are 10 of the most significant fake images the White House has put out so far.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/29\/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4b7cb2fd8f7d06f369527b2702d8dbea84ffdad2\/0_105_2160_1728\/master\/2160.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b0c3b16d25c114a4ef6b35ec2b967240\" title=\"The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House - and what they teach us\" \/>Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here\u2019s what you need to know to navigate the trolling<br \/>\nIt started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it\u2019s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling \u201cslopaganda\u201d \u2013 an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. \u201cShitposting\u201d, the publishing of deliberately crude, offensive content online to provoke a reaction, has reached the level of \u201cinstitutional shitposting\u201d, according to Know Your Meme\u2019s editor Don Caldwell. This is trolling as official government communication. And nobody is more skilled at it than the Trump administration \u2013 a government that has not only allowed the AI industry all the regulative freedom it desires, but has embraced the technology for its own in-house purposes. Here are 10 of the most significant fake images the White House has put out so far. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here\u2019s what you need to know to navigate the trolling It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it\u2019s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House &#8211; and what they teach us<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}