Trump shares fake image of Harris speaking to communist event

Former President Trump shared a fake photo of Vice President Harris speaking at a communist event in Chicago ahead of the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC). 

Trump posted the image on Truth Social late on Saturday and again on X on Sunday, adding on to accusations he has made about her recently, calling her a communist and referring to her as “Comrade Kamala.” 

The Republican nominee included it in a litany of personal and political attacks against Harris that he made during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. 

“After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls,” Trump said. 

He also used this nickname for her in a fundraising pitch that his campaign sent out on Monday. 

“Comrade Kamala and Dangerously Liberal Tim Walz will burn this country to the ground!” the email states, accusing them of supporting “SOVIET Style Price Controls.” 

Trump’s comments refer to one pillar of Harris’s economic plan that she rolled out Friday. It targets price gouging and calls for the “first-ever federal ban” on the practice for food and groceries. 

The proposal did not include much detail as to how it would happen but calls for rules that ensure companies can’t “unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive profits on food and groceries” and granting additional authority to the Federal Trade Commission and state officials to investigate and penalize corporations that break the rules. 

The Hill has reached out to the Harris campaign for comment on Trump’s post. 

The role of artificial intelligence has increasingly been discussed throughout the 2024 election cycle, and fake images have received attention online on several occasions. Trump supporters circulated fake AI-generated images of Trump with Black voters earlier this year. 

Trump himself this month accused Harris, without evidence, of using AI to make the crowds at her rallies appear larger than they are. 

Trump’s post comes as the DNC is set to get underway on Monday. The four-day event will conclude Thursday with Harris officially accepting the Democratic nomination for president.