Fake Photos Of Donald Trump Getting Arrested And Running Away From The Cops Are Taking Over Social Media

Let your conspiracy theorist relatives on Facebook know: Donald Trump hasn’t been arrested (yet).

As the world waits to learn if “President Karen” will be arraigned today, or this week, or ever, there have been AI-generated photos on social media of the McDonald’s zealot fleeing the authorities. They’re very funny, and very fake.

“Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump’s arrest,” tweeted Eliot Higgins, the founder and creative director of Bellingcat, an independent collective of researchers, investigators, and citizen journalists. The photos look real enough… if you’re half paying attention while scrolling through your Facebook or Twitter feed (and you can suspend your disbelief enough to believe that the exercise-fearing Trump has run before).

Another now-deleted tweet of Trump getting arrested was debunked by Snopes.

The image was made using artificial intelligence (AI). Even though there was no disclaimer stating that the image was AI-generated, the photo included clear tells. Midjourney, an AI generator, has been noted to have difficulty generating realistic-looking hands. One of the police officers in the fake image doesn’t have an index finger, while Trump’s fist is balled into a fist with no fingers visible.

The photos are everywhere.

If Trump was actually arrested, you would hear about it from the nation’s number one news source:

(Via Snopes)