Generative AI has increased the efficiency with which political candidates were able to raise money by analyzing donor data and identifying possible donors and target audiences. A
Democratic consultant working for
Dean Phillips has admitted to using AI to generate a
robocall which used Joe Biden's voice to discourage voter participation. In April 2023, the Republican National Committee released an attack ad made entirely with AI-generated images depicting a
dystopian future under
Joe Biden's re-election. In August 2024,
The Atlantic noted that
AI slop was becoming associated with the
political right in the United States, who were using it for
shitposting and
engagement farming on social media, with the technology offering "cheap, fast, on-demand fodder for content". The initial version of the
Make Our Children Healthy Again Assessment of children's health issues, released by a commission of cabinet members and officials of the Trump administration, and led by
US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., reportedly cited nonexistent and garbled references generated using artificial intelligence. Democratic governor
Gavin Newsom has used AI-generated images to criticize Trump. In the midst of disruptions to
food stamp distribution during the
2025 US government shutdown, anonymous social media users began using OpenAI's
Sora to post slop videos of
welfare queens complaining, stealing, and rioting in supermarkets; many comments to the videos appeared unaware that they were AI-generated, or acknowledged that they were AI-generated but nonetheless useful in pushing a narrative of widespread
welfare fraud. On September 6, 2025, Trump posted an image on Truth Social making a reference to "Chipocalypse Now". Trump's post consisted of an AI-generated image showing Trump frowning and wearing a
U.S. Cavalry hat and sunglasses, in front of
Lake Michigan with the city of
Chicago behind him with a smoke and fire spread across the background with five
U.S. Army helicopters in the sky. The words "Chipocalypse Now" are rendered in a font resembling that in which the title of the 1979 film
Apocalypse Now was styled. On February 5, 2026, Donald Trump shared a video of
Barack and
Michelle Obama depicted as
apes in a Truth Social post. The two-second AI-generated clip of the Obamas portrayed as apes set to "
The Lion Sleeps Tonight" appeared at the end of a one-minute two second long video, the rest of which was about
false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. The post received at least 4,650 likes, 409 comments, and 1,470 reTruths before it was deleted the next morning. The post received widespread backlash and bipartisan condemnation of the video as racist. In April 2026, Trump posted a picture of himself depicted as
Jesus, drawing widespread criticism from Evangelicals and Catholics, resulting in Trump deleting the post hours later and claiming he believed he was depicted as a doctor. ==Election campaigns==