Trump posts an AI video of himself wrestling a tiger

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself wrestling with a tiger to Truth Social around midnight, hours after he shared real footage of a fatal tiger attack at a wildlife park in England.

Forbes reported the clip and the run of posts around it. Truth Social's own page for the post timestamps it at 11:17 p.m. on October 13, 2026, and London24 News places the tiger video on the morning of October 14. The AI clip followed the real footage within hours either way.

The tiger video came after two other posts. Earlier on October 13, Trump shared video of the attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster, England, captioned "Don't ever mess with nature! President DJT," according to Forbes and Rolling Stone. A man died after he entered the tiger enclosure at the park. He is not named here. Trump then posted a compilation of big cats attacking people with no caption; Forbes said some of that footage showed signs of AI content, and Rolling Stone said it was unclear whether the attacks in it were real.

What the AI tiger video shows

The tiger video is fictional. In it, an AI-generated figure of Trump chases the tiger away and playfully wrestles with it, and the clip ends with him embracing the animal while "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" plays, Forbes reported. London24 News said the clip mimics the real attack footage and describes him cuddling the animal. The post carried no caption. As it appeared on Truth Social on October 14, the post showed a 23-second clip, more than 1,200 ReTruths and more than 4,300 likes, with no visible AI-generated label distinguishing it from the real footage.

Trump kept posting after it. Forbes reported a follow-up video comparing him to a lion fighting hyenas while a narrator calls it "the king of the jungle," and later clips that refer to his opponents as "vipers" and "wolves."

The family of the man who died said the spread of what they called deeply offensive media content was causing them "severe distress at an exceptionally vulnerable time," and asked people to stop sharing it, London24 News reported. The park stayed closed on October 14 for a fifth day.

Forbes described the tiger clip as the latest in a run of AI posts from Trump's account. In April 2026 he shared an AI image that appeared to show him as Jesus Christ and deleted it after criticism. In July he posted AI images of himself with John F. Kennedy and George Washington.

For people who make synthetic video, the case is a live test of what a major platform will host without a label. One of the day's most visible AI clips was a synthetic joke built on a real death, and it sat on the President's own account beside the real footage that inspired it. Neither the posts nor the coverage SLOP TV read attached a label separating the two.

The AI tiger clip is on Truth Social at the post Forbes links above; Forbes, Rolling Stone and London24 News carry the fuller sequence of the night's posts.