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AI-Generated Images Purporting to Show Donald Trump Kissing White House Aide Natalie Harp Went Viral on Social Media

AI Incident Database · article · Sep 19, 2026 · UTC

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.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-22T16:03:50.148Z. This is not the publication date.