Trump transformed into Superman in new White House poster
Donald Trump has been transformed into Superman in a new meme shared by the White House.
The modified movie poster shows the US president’s face plastered onto the toned body of DC’s Man of Steel.
Around the president are the slogans “Truth, Justice, and The American Way” and “A Trump Presidency”.
It was posted on official accounts on Thursday night, just as the new Superman film hit cinemas.
The poster is an adaptation of the official film artwork – only this time, a younger, muscle-packed Trump is decked out in Superman’s famous red cape and skin-tight blue suit.
The post is just the latest in a stream of surreal memes from Trump’s team superimposing his face onto iconic figures.
In recent months, the president has also shared an AI-generated image of himself as the Pope and an animated video of Gaza reimagined as a glitzy Trump-branded resort, complete with him drinking cocktails poolside with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister.
Trump’s Superman meme comes amid controversy over the film itself.
James Gunn, who directed the movie, recently told The Sunday Times that Superman is “the story of America… an immigrant that came from other places,” and that it’s about “basic human kindness.”
That triggered fury from the American right.
“Another film we won’t be seeing,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham posted on X.
Her colleague Kellyanne Conway backed her up: “We don’t go to the movie theatre to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.”
Others piled in, including Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, and viral right-wing accounts like End Wokeness, who labelled the reboot “woke” and accused Hollywood of hijacking Superman.
Even Dean Cain, who donned the cape in the 1990s Lois & Clark series, criticised the direction of the new film.
“How woke is Hollywood going to make this character?” he asked TMZ. “How much is Disney going to change their Snow White? Why are they going to change these characters [to] exist for the times?”
While some rage, the Superman reboot has received glowing reviews, with a 95 per cent audience score on the critics aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
It was released in select cinemas on Thursday before being rolled out worldwide on Friday. Analysts expect the movie to make upwards of $100 million (£74 million) in its first three days.
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