The creators of the bizarre “Trump Gaza” AI video don’t know how President Donald Trump found it and claim they don’t want to be part of his “propaganda machine.” Israel natives Solo Avital and Ariel Vromen, who now live in the United States, said their video was meant to be satirical. The viral video features a ludicrous depiction of Gaza in which Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sit shirtless by a pool near a giant golden statue of Trump. It portrays the Gaza Strip as a shiny resort with Trump’s name smacked on it—far different from the reality of a war-torn country where 2.2 million people have been displaced and almost 50,000 have died. The video received backlash from Palestinians and U.S. citizens alike. Now, even Avital and Vromen seem to regret the clip, saying that it was created as a software experiment and that they weren’t sure how it ended up reaching the White House. But while they said it was a “joke,” the pair complimented the president’s policy proposal to relocate Palestinians and “level” the region to create a “Rivera of the Middle East.”
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