Trump’s Bizarre AI Post About Bombing Americans With Diarrhea Is Turning Out to Be a Weirdly Perfect Prediction of His Presidency

The United States is experiencing a cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reporting more than 24,000 suspected cases across 47 states and at least two deaths in Michigan. The outbreak has been exacerbated by the second Trump Administration's cuts to the federal workforce, including reducing the CDC's parasite lab from 11 to three staff and losing $30 million in USAID funding due to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk, hampering response efforts.

You might recall that back in October of last year, president of the United States Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-posts-ai-video-protestors of himself flying a fighter jet and dropping loads of feces all over protesting Americans. While this was a completely deranged piece of content for — once again — the president of the United States to post, and it’s probably safe to say that most people probably didn’t take this AI-generated clip as a literal threat. Did it communicate the commander-in-chief’s hostility https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary to Americans exercising their right to protest, in this case during 2025’s “No Kings” demonstrations? Well, yes. But did we think that the president would actually unleash explosive diarrhea on Americans? We didn’t, at least — and we’re sorry to say that we were sorely mistaken. In July, the US was hit with a wave of explosive diarrhea caused by an outbreak of cyclospora, a parasite that spreads through food and water tainted with human feces. As of this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC reported that the outbreak has impacted people in at least 47 states, and that suspected cases had climbed to more than 24,000. At least two people in Michigan https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/g-s1-137048/michigan-cyclosporiasis-deaths-cyclospora-outbreak with existing medical conditions even tragically died after contracting the parasite. The outbreak has been linked to contaminated lettuce. For the past month, many Americans have understandably been avoiding salads https://futurism.com/health-medicine/americans-tossing-salad-lettuce-outbreak . Taylor Farms, the company closely tied to the outbreak, issued a recall. Of course, this horrid wave https://futurism.com/health-medicine/country-drowning-cases-explosive-diarrhea of diarrhea-inflicting illness wasn’t dumped from the sky by a crown-sporting octogenarian president zooming around in a fighter jet. But the cyclospora outbreak has prompted revelations over the consequences of the second Trump Administration’s aggressive cuts https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/us/politics/trump-federal-government-fallout.html to the federal workforce. Last year, the lab tasked with identifying parasitic outbreaks was slashed from 11 people to just three, and the swift destruction of the agency USAID, pushed by billionaire Elon Musk’s chaotic Department of Government Efficiency effort https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-doge-gao-report , prevented millions of dollars from reaching American public health agencies. That parasite lab, as CNN reported https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/health/trump-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-cdc-response-invs last month, is part of a CDC division that lost out on an earmarked $30 million due to the DOGE-led USAID crusade. “The response is being hampered by the loss of specialized staff and the loss of hands-on-deck needed to identify the source of the outbreaks,” Dr. Joel Barratt, the head of the lab responsible for tracking parasitic outbreaks, told CNN . At the time, the White House told CNN that the “referenced USAID funds that were administered by the CDC supported overseas programs, not domestic disease response, and that “the Trump administration’s top priority is ensuring the health and safety of the American people.” Meanwhile, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy, who has overseen a chaotic and destructive transformation of federal health agencies, said a month ago https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-diarrhea-problem-worse-under-control that the outbreak was “under control” — despite case numbers continuing to rise. America’s cyclospora summer might not have come from a fighter jet. But disruptive policy choices played a hand in creating perfect storm for a parasitic outbreak to occur, and have likely made outbreak containment that much harder. As for Trump’s AI diarrhea slop? We regret to say that it was — to the detriment unlucky lettuce-eaters — prophetic. More on cyclospora: Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers https://futurism.com/health-medicine/americans-tossing-salad-lettuce-outbreak