Donald Trump shares AI-generated video showing Gaza as seaside resort

The video ‘Gaza 2025 What’s Next?’ opens with people on a rubble-strewn street emerging from a tunnel onto a beach with palm trees and yachts.

President Trump was criticised by his own supporters and Arab Americans after posting a video generated by AI that appeared to show his vision for the Gaza Strip he wants after the war between Israel and Hamas.

The 35-second video shows a rebuilt beach resort, complete with a “Trump Gaza” hotel, children holding golden balloons with Trump’s face on them and a huge golden statue of the American president.

It was shared on Trump’s Truth Social platform and Instagram, earning nearly half a million likes and over 15 million views for its depiction of him and the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, lounging by a pool in swimming trunks, as well as Elon Musk eating hummus and throwing cash into the air.

It also features shots of bearded belly dancers on a beach and Trump dancing with a non-bearded belly dancer.

Trump drew outrage across the Arab world after announcing his plan earlier this month for the US to “own” the devastated Palestinian territory after the war, and to move Gaza’s two million residents out to Egypt and Jordan. He has continued to push the plan despite international condemnation and rejection by those two countries.

Starting with a city in ruins after the war with Israel, the video asks “What’s next?” before showing children making their way to Trump’s vision for the territory.

Apparently generated using AI, the video also features a song praising Trump, with the lyrics: “Donald is coming to set you free, bringing the light for all to see/ No more tunnels, no more fear, Trump Gaza is finally here.”

Many of Trump’s own Truth Social followers said the video was in poor taste while opponents viewed it as a new low, with some suggesting it may have been timed as a distraction from Republicans in the House of Representatives passing a dollars 4.5 billion tax-cutting bill that they warned would hit social services.

Faye Nemer, the chief executive of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) American Chamber of Commerce in Dearborn, Michigan, who voted for Trump, called the video “offensive and counterproductive to peace talks”.

A self-professed “ultra mega Maga” follower of Trump, Beverly Jackson, posted: “This was weird for me and I love you Trump.”

Stan White wrote: “I could not be a bigger supporter of ... Trump but this particular video is in very poor taste. Very poor taste, indeed!”

The Times