White House Posts Possibly AI-Generated Sombrero Pumpkin for Halloween, Critics Call It Racist
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Source: buzzfeed.com ↗
What better way to shore up your support with the Hispanic community 6 days before an election?
On October 29, 2026, the official White House account on X posted a Halloween image of a pumpkin with a sombrero carved into it, captioned "Spooky szn is here." The image was potentially AI-generated. The post drew immediate and widespread condemnation as racist, coming six days before an election.
The sombrero imagery echoed AI-generated videos shared by Trump and other Republicans the previous year depicting Democratic lawmakers in sombreros as part of anti-immigration messaging — videos that were themselves condemned as racist. Critics responded in kind, using AI tools to generate their own pumpkin carvings featuring Trump alongside the late Jeffrey Epstein.