Trump Spent 10 Hours Posting AI Images and Claimed He Made 'Hundreds of Billions' on Stocks for America
The president flooded Truth Social with AI-generated pictures on Sunday, alongside financial claims backed by no evidence. Senators have already asked regulators to look at a $100,000-a-month Trump feature that gives paying subscribers early access to market-moving announcements.
Key points
- President Trump posted dozens of AI-generated images, meaning computer-made pictures that never happened, on Truth Social over roughly 10 hours on Sunday.
- One post claimed he has made "Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks" for the United States, with no evidence attached.
- U.S. Senators asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (the federal agency that polices financial markets) in July 2026 to investigate Trump's "Truth API" service.
- Truth API costs $100,000 a month and gives subscribers early access to policy announcements that can move stock prices.
- AI-generated images also claimed the Strait of Hormuz, the Moon, Lake Ontario and New Mexico as U.S. Territory.
President Trump spent most of Sunday online. He posted dozens of AI-generated images, computer-made pictures that didn't come from a camera and show scenes that never occurred, on his Truth Social platform over more than 10 hours.
The posts ranged from a depiction of Iran's defeat to Trump on horseback alongside George Washington. One showed actor Robert De Niro holding a shirt reading "Trump is my president." Another placed Trump in front of White House monitors tracking the stock market. We covered his earlier AI-image campaigns in our 27 August story on the Washington and Lincoln posts.
What did Trump actually claim?
The stock-market image carried a caption saying Trump has "made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the U.S.A." No figures, no dates, no source. CNBC Tech reported the White House didn't respond to requests for comment.
That number deserves scrutiny. Hundreds of billions of dollars would exceed the annual GDP of many countries, and nothing in the public record supports it. Our 26 August report on Trump's SpaceX share purchase found the president bought up to $50,000 of stock that had already slipped below his entry price. That's the documented record, not hundreds of billions.
Why does the $100,000-a-month feature matter?
Trump Media, the company that owns Truth Social, sells a product called Truth API. An API, short for application programming interface, is a technical connection that lets outside software pull data automatically from a service. What Truth API's subscribers get is early access to Trump's policy announcements, the kind of news that can send prices up or down before the public knows anything.
In July 2026, a group of U.S. Senators wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission urging an investigation into whether Truth API breaks federal securities laws. Those laws exist to stop some investors from trading on information others don't yet have.
| Feature | Cost | What it gives subscribers |
|---|---|---|
| Truth API | $100,000 / month | Early access to policy announcements that can move markets |
The SEC hasn't publicly confirmed whether it opened an inquiry.
What about the territorial claims?
Several images labelled foreign or shared land as American. The Strait of Hormuz appeared as a "new U.S. Territory." New Mexico was renamed "New America." One post showed the Moon with an American flag and the words "The Moon is Ours." Lake Ontario was labelled "Lake America," following an executive order Trump signed directing the federal government to use that name. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada would keep calling it Lake Ontario.
These are images, not legal documents. They carry no force in international law.
The honest read on this: The territorial posts are noise. The Truth API story isn't. If an SEC investigation does open, it could redraw the line between public political speech and market-moving information in the social-media age, and that affects every retail investor, not just the ones paying $100,000 a month.
