Trump faces backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers

Users of president’s own social media site criticise video showing reimagined Gaza featuring Trump and Israeli PM sipping cocktails

Donald Trump posted a bizarre AI-generated video of "Trump Gaza" on his Truth Social site on Wednesday. Picture: Truth Social

Donald Trump is facing a backlash on his Truth Social platform after sharing an AI-created video of him sipping cocktails with a topless Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, in a future imagining of the Palestinian territory devastated by Israel’s war.

The video presented a computer-generated vision of Trump’s property development plan for Gaza, under which he said he wants to “clean out” the population of about two million people. Named the "Riviera of the Middle East" plan, the proposal has been criticised as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.