"It's hard to explain just how detached from reality President Trump's conspiracy-theory-filled social media posting spree last night and this morning was. One easy example: The president shared a completely made-up and frankly nonsensical quote about former president Obama the post attributed to GOP Sen. John Kennedy. The fake quote originated with a satire website, basically a fakery factory, that invents stories to be shared by online conservatives; per the fact-check website Lead Stories, versions of this particular fake quote have been wrongly attributed to everyone from Kash Patel to Madonna."
"Early Monday morning specifically after 1 a.m. ET Trump published a barrage of wild posts focusing on a number of issues. In addition to his lengthy rant about the cost of his Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool makeover, the president also posted an AI-generated image of former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden swimming in feces. He posted another AI image of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) eating a large amount of food. A third image depicted Trump on the $100 bill."
"The report added: Did Kash Patel, Sen. John Kennedy, Pete Buttigieg, Vince Gill and others demand that former President Barack Obama return millions he earned through ownership related to Obamacare? No, that's not true: Nearly identical stories that swap-in those and other names are part of an international network of websites and Facebook pages that publish fake news stories about famous people to generate traffic"
Trump published a barrage of Truth Social posts after 1 a.m. ET that included claims and AI-generated images. The posts included a made-up quote attributed to GOP Sen. John Kennedy about former President Barack Obama. The quote originated from a satire website that invents stories for online conservatives, and similar versions have been wrongly attributed to many public figures. The posts also featured an AI-generated image of Obama and Joe Biden swimming in feces, an AI-generated image of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker eating a large amount of food, and an image of Trump on the $100 bill. The fake quote was linked to an international network of websites and Facebook pages that publish fabricated stories to generate traffic.
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