Trump Posts AI-Generated 'Shady Bunch' Mugshots of Obama, Comey and Six Others in Sunday Truth Social Blitz

President Donald Trump spent Sunday morning posting a torrent of AI-generated images to Truth Social, the centerpiece of which was a Brady Bunch-style grid he captioned "The Shady Bunch" — eight political opponents, including former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey, depicted in matching orange prison jumpsuits. "This is a bad (Sick!) group of people," Trump wrote above the mosaic. "Very destructive to our great Nation."

The grid placed Obama at the center, surrounded by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Adviser Susan Rice, former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and Comey. Each face had been rendered against a flat mugshot-style background by a generative image model and stitched into a 3-by-3 layout that visually mirrors the opening credits of the 1970s sitcom. The Trump post was reposted within hours by Donald Trump Jr., White House communications adviser Margo Martin and several Republican congressional accounts.

It was not the only AI imagery Trump pushed Sunday. Over the course of about six hours he also posted a doctored video appearing to show FBI agents arresting Obama in the Oval Office, an AI image of himself walking alongside a muscular shackled alien in front of the U.S. Space Force seal, and a separate generated graphic of U.S. bombs falling on what were labeled as Iranian warships. Truth Social analytics service Patriotbase logged 47 Trump posts between 6:14 a.m. and 12:31 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday, the most posts the president has made in a single morning since taking office in January.

Legal scholars and former Justice Department officials reacted with alarm because the mugshot grid landed in the middle of a Justice Department prosecution of Comey for allegedly threatening the president's life — a case filed last month after Comey posted a beach photo of seashells arranged to read "86 47." "You cannot have the chief executive publicly depicting a defendant in his own DOJ's prosecution in a prison uniform without it bleeding into the jury pool," said Andrew Weissmann, the former Mueller team prosecutor now at NYU Law School. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the post "disgusting" and "the playbook of a man who is afraid of accountability."

The White House defended the posts. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Sunday that Trump was "exercising his First Amendment rights to ridicule a group of officials who weaponized the intelligence community against him," and dismissed criticism as "the same fake-outrage cycle." Several Republican senators were less enthusiastic. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, asked about the imagery on the Capitol steps Monday morning, said the president was "better than this" and warned that AI-generated content depicting real Americans as criminals was "a slippery slope we should not be sliding down," particularly while Congress is still negotiating an AI deepfake bill. The Trump posts remained up as of Sunday evening and had collectively been viewed more than 32 million times on the platform.