President Donald Trump marveled at an AI video of himself aging over the years as part of his increasingly frequent posting schedule. The video begins when he was 4 years old and continues to the present day.
“Oh!!!” Trump, now 79, wrote in response to a video he posted on Truth Social. The video appears to have been compiled from photographs and interview footage from his long public career.
Oddly enough, only one other character appears in this trip down memory lane. Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, was married from 1993 to 1999 and they had a daughter, Tiffany Trump.
Perhaps uncomfortably for the president, there is no mention of his first wife Ivana Zelnikova, whom he was married to from 1977 to 1990, the mother of Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, or his current wife, First Lady Melania Trump, mother of Barron Trump.
Donald Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, is the only one of the three included in the AI montage, leaving no room for Ivana or Melania (AFP/Getty)
Four decades before entering politics, the president rose to prominence in the mid-1970s as a New York City real estate heir who drew attention as the successor to his father, Fred Trump, who built an empire by acquiring apartment complexes in Brooklyn.
The video begins before that, with young Donald appearing as a smiling angel.
After that, he accelerated to a yearbook photo of himself in a uniform as an 18-year-old student at the New York Military Academy in 1964, and then took off as a budding businessman at the age of 30 in 1976.
The video covers the lead up to Trump’s initial announcement that he intended to run for president in 2015, but then largely glosses over the highly controversial events of the past decade. (AFP/Getty)
From there, the montage traces his heyday as a Manhattan luxury real estate developer, highlighting key years like 1985, when he bought Mar-a-Lago and the Atlantic City Hilton and owned the New Jersey Generals USFL team, and 1996, when he became the owner of the Miss Universe pageant.
Next, take a look at President Trump, who achieved a new level of national fame in 2005 as the host of an NBC reality show. apprentice, And in 2012, when he re-registered as a Republican before announcing his presidential bid in 2015, that historic moment began with him stepping off the golden escalator of Trump Tower.
The video ends in 2025 and cuts to President Trump as an older, much more stern figure than the grinning corporate golden boy of his earlier career.
The entire show was soundtracked by the 80s synth-pop song that also ran Alphaville, “Forever Young,” whose lyrics poignantly ask, “Do you really want to live forever?”
