Donald Trump has shared AI photographs on social media of himself dressed as the Pope and as a Christ-like figure healing a sick man.
Now Trump’s White Home has prolonged his self-mythologizing tendencies to considered one of moviedom’s most hallowed figures: British super-spy James Bond.
On Saturday night, the White Home posted an image on social media of Trump as a silhouetted 007 in a pretend film poster, overlaid with textual content that claims “Make America Great Again.” (By no means thoughts that Bond works for the U.Ok. authorities’s MI6 overseas intelligence service and that alone would disqualify the 79-year-old Trump from getting the job.)
The White Home was responding to the information — first reported by Variety — that Amazon MGM Studios lately kicked off auditions to search out the following James Bond. The studio has tapped casting director Nina Gold (“Game of Thrones,” “The Force Awakens,” “The Crown”) to steer the method to anoint Daniel Craig’s successor. Selection additionally exclusively reported that Tom Francis, greatest identified for showing in a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard,” is among the many actors who’ve tried out for the half.
Web customers instantly mocked the White Home’s Trump-as-Bond meme.
“License to Groom,” one X consumer posted with a picture exhibiting Jeffrey Epstein as 007, alluding to ties between Trump and the deceased intercourse offender. One other consumer shared an image of a potbellied Trump with the caption, “Pie Another Day.” One commenter uploaded an AI-generated picture of Trump as an overweight James Bond holding a Large Mac as a substitute of a gun, with the textual content “I Don’t Care About Your Finances” (a reference to the president’s recent remark that with regard to the Iran warfare, “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation”).
Amazon MGM Studios in February 2025 introduced a cope with long-time Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, beneath which the studio gained creative control over the franchise.
