DeepfakeMedium
AI-Generated Images Purporting to Show Donald Trump Kissing White House Aide Natalie Harp Went Viral on Social Media
- Occurred
- Sep 14, 2026
- Published
- Sep 19, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
AI-generated images purporting to show U.S. President Donald Trump kissing White House aide Natalie Harp on a golf course spread across social media; one X post received over 10 million views. Forensic analysis and provenance checks indicated the circulating images were synthetic, and the White House called them fake. The original creator remained unidentified.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Chatbot developers
- Large language model developers
- Synthetic media generation technology developers
- Synthetic image generation technology developers
- Deepfake technology developers
Deployers
- Mykhailo Rohoza
- Synthetic media creators
- Deepfake creators
- Information manipulation actors
- Keith Edwards
Harmed parties
- Donald Trump
- Natalie Harp
- General public
- Epistemic integrity
- General public misled by deepfake content
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Synthetic media depicting public figures went viral, causing controversy but no physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8