Trump takes a nine iron to AI: Ex-president slams ‘despicable people’ making him appear fat in golf photos – hours after he was hit with a $355m fine

Just as Donald Trump was being fined $355 million in a New York courtroom at the height of his civil fraud case, the famously thin-skinned former president posted to his Truth Social photos that made him look fat.

‘The Fake News used artificial intelligence (AI) to create the image. These are despicable people, but everyone knows that,” Trump criticized.

‘In the other pictures I’m hitting golf balls today to show the difference. Unfortunately, in our country, all you get is Fake News!’

The message, which showed one photo of Trump with a big belly, was accompanied by another three showing a slimmed-down Donald, and came at the same time that the judge in his New York case, Judge Arthur F. Engoron, made his statement. .

However, further investigation reveals that the image is not an AI at all, but a photoshopped image of 57-year-old golf cult hero and longtime Trump supporter, John Daly, in an image taken in 2017.

Trump claimed that this image was generated by AI and depicted him as fat

The real photo is actually that of two-time major winner and Trump supporter, John Daly

The former president spent a significant amount of time on the golf course during his time in office and continues to do so, but the image posted Friday afternoon was created digitally by superimposing a photo of Trump’s head over a real image of Daly.

The remaining three photos in the post showed a slimmer figure as Trump visited the links at one of his golf courses in Florida.

Daly, a two-time major champion, is a Trump fan, so the pair have played golf together for some time.

The couple also has a shared love of McDonald’s and Diet Coke.

The golfer vowed to cut back on Diet Coke and cigarettes in 2020 after he was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Two years later he revealed that the cancer was benign.

Trump then posted a series of three photos of himself playing on his golf course in Florida

One photo showed Trump looking particularly slim as he clicked the links

The photos were part of a trio of images posted by Trump showing a slimmed-down Donald

That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of faked photos online, like this poor display

Trump is seen playing at his Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach in a recent photo

Trump has been photographed at his golf courses from various angles in recent years

Trump can be seen in 2022 at the Trump International golf course West Palm Beach Florida

Daly told sports journalist Graham Bensinger in a 2016 interview that he simply hates drinking water and likes the taste of Coke better.

“I used to drink twelve to twenty Diet Cokes a day,” Daly told Bensinger. ‘I used to go to McDonald’s three to four times a day. For me they always had the best Diet Coke.

Last year, Daly strongly supported Trump as he boldly argued that the former president should return to the White House next year for the sake of the United States.

Daly, a former PGA Tour fanatic who now plays primarily on the senior tour, has known the former president for more than three decades and even described him as a “great friend” in a 2017 Instagram post.

And with the 2024 presidential election just nine months away, Daly claimed he and his fellow professionals are backing Trump to return to the White House.

“I think all of us on tour want Papa Trump back,” he told Tucker Carlson in a sit-down interview last December.

The two-time major winner has known Trump since the 1990s and has played golf with him

Daly is pictured in the Oval Office with his family and ‘great friend’ Trump in 2017

The 1995 champion wore stars and stripes shorts and a jersey with Donald Trump’s name at the British Open in July 2023

Daly has also turned heads on the course with his pants, which featured dozens of skeletons, seen here during the first round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma in May 2022.

Trump has been a prominent figure at LIV golf tournaments lately, where he was warmly welcomed by the likes of Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau.

When asked if he believed Trump could win this year’s election, Daly revealed he prayed he would prevail.

“He has to win, I pray to God he wins,” he insisted. “Just for the satisfaction of bringing our country back together and bringing common sense back in here.”

“Look what he did: how great was our country in the four years he was in power? Now look at it. No safe boundaries. I mean, what the hell happened? Where did it go? I enjoyed the four years that Papa Trump was in office. And within two to three years it all went to hell.”

The two-time major winner praised not only Trump, whom he described as an “incredible, smart individual,” but also the entire former First Family.

Daly is pictured with a Diet Coke in hand while training for the 1999 US Open

John Daly is seen during a practice round at The Open at the Royal Liverpool, Wirral in 2023

He then boldly and bizarrely claimed that some of the biggest international conflicts of recent years would have been avoided if the 45th president had secured a second term in November 2020, pointing to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and most recently to the ongoing Israeli invasion. -Hamas war this year.

“I’ll support him until I die,” Daly said. ‘He’s one of the greatest people I’ve ever met. The family is wonderful. Once you get to know them, they are just good-hearted people. He only wants to help Americans and protect our country.

“I don’t think Putin would have invaded Ukraine and I don’t think Hamas would have attacked Israel the way they did if Trump was in power.”

Daly, who has won five times on the PGA Tour, revealed that Trump had predicted his own presidency in the 1990s during a conversation with the professional golfer at a pro-am.

“We were playing a pro-am, we went outside and talked a little bit, and when he got up he said, ‘Mark my word, one day I’ll be president of the United States.’ This was in ’92, ’93, ’94 maybe,” Daly claimed to a stunned Carlson, adding that he believed the then-real businessman.