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Another day, another round of AI bullshit with the President of the United States. This time, President Donald Trump is being ridiculed because he clearly does not know the rules of the card game UNO. “I have all the cards,” Trump boasts in front of an AI image that should summarize his negotiating position in the war with Iran. But that is not the intention at UNO.
Ann De Nil
Journalist at HLN
The American president has repeatedly repeated that he has “the best cards” in negotiations with Iran, if not “all the cards”. It is Trump’s way of saying that the US has full control of the situation and that Iran has no choice but to give in to US demands.
His Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeated it again on Monday at a press conference at the Pentagon, when a journalist asked when exactly Trump abandoned his demand for Iran’s “unconditional surrender.” “The president has not conceded anything,” Hegseth responded sharply. “He holds the cards, and the United States retains the upper hand.”
In any case, Trump wanted to repeat that message again on Sunday, with the help of a speaking AI image that he shared on his Truth Social platform. The meme was also shared on the official White House X account. In the image, the smiling AI version of Trump is holding an oversized set of UNO cards, several ‘wild cards’ in fact.
One problem: the goal in UNO is to get rid of all your cards. “You just win at UNO by not having any cards,” comments one internet user after another. Apparently neither the president nor the White House social media team is familiar with the rules of the game.
“You don’t have a Street yet”
An X user couldn’t resist responding with a poker wink. “You may have all the cards, but you don’t have a Street yet,” he says, referring to the Strait of Hormuz and the poker hand of the same name.
On an assembly line
Trump continuously shares AI images of himself. Last week he shared a bizarre image that looked straight out of a Hollywood movie, showing him with a gun at the ready and explosions in the background. “Done with ‘Mr. Nice Guy’,” was the message to Iran. Earlier in April, Trump removed an AI image of himself as Jesus after heavy criticism.
Iran and pro-Iranian channels sometimes also respond with AI nonsense to mock Trump. For example, a clip of Trump singing about the Hormuz blockade recently went viral. What a time to be alive.
