Most Americans say they have a negative opinion of President Trump sharing AI-generated videos The protesters are being made fun of And Democratic leaders are concerned about the government shutdown, according to a new poll.
A YouGov survey 70 percent of American respondents said they strongly or somewhat disapprove of Trump’s artificially produced video of him dropping brown sludge on protesters in a fighter jet at last weekend’s “No Kings” protests in New York City.
Twenty percent of respondents said they strongly or somewhat approved of the Truth Social post, while 10 percent said they were not sure how to feel about it.
Most survey participants said they were otherwise disappointed by the post, with 60 percent describing it as unpresidential, 52 percent saying it was disturbing and 51 percent saying they found it offensive.
Twenty-one percent of participants rated the video as funny.
Those surveyed were also largely disapproving of two other AI videos shared by Trump: one depicting former President Obama being arrested in the Oval Office, and another depicting the Gaza Strip with a gold statue of Trump and the Trump Gaza Hotel.
Trump is no stranger to using social media controversially and recently gained attention for sharing an AI video depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) with a sombrero and mustache next to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the White House grounds during the shutdown Was.
“Hours away from a shutdown, which we don’t want, which the American people don’t want, the president is busy trolling the Internet like a 10-year-old,” Schumer said. Anger on the Senate floor At the end of September. “And that’s why Americans will blame him if the government shuts down.”
However, the president’s fellow Republicans in Congress have said that the post “zest” and the online video was referred to as “Satire,
Regarding the use of AI in general, 85 percent of Americans said they are at least somewhat concerned about political propaganda being spread through AI, while 9 percent said they were not concerned and 6 percent were unsure.
Ninety percent of respondents said they were concerned about AI being used to share disinformation or deepfakes, while 5 percent said they had no concerns and 4 percent were unsure.
YouGov surveyed 1,091 citizens from October 20–22, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
