Mark Zuckerberg spent months kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago.
He donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration and made multiple White House visits trying to repair years of bad blood.
But Instagram just promoted one disgusting AI video that had Trump furious.
Meta's AI Tool Promoted Satanic Imagery of Trump
Instagram users opening the app this week got an eyeful they weren't expecting.
Meta promoted its new "free AI creation tools" with a piece of content showing President Donald Trump kneeling before what looked like a Satan-like demon figure.
The AI-generated video, featured prominently in Meta's advertisement for the tool, depicted Trump shaking hands with a horned creature before appearing to kneel before it.
"Meta AI: Try free AI creation tools" the promotion read, complete with a "Get app" button encouraging users to download the software that created the disturbing imagery.
Meta launched this "Vibes" feature in September, describing it as "a new feed in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai where you can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos."
The timing couldn't be worse for Zuckerberg's ongoing charm offensive with the Trump administration.
A Meta spokesman scrambled to contain the damage, telling The Daily Wire the video was "user-generated content" that "has been removed from this recommendation surface as it violated our protocols for promotions."
The company claimed it's "taking additional steps to prevent this from happening moving forward" but wouldn't explain how user-generated content depicting the President bowing to demonic figures made it into an official Meta promotion in the first place.
The Daily Wire uploaded a screenshot of the image to Meta's own AI tool and asked it to identify what was happening.
The AI described it as a "manipulated photo of Donald Trump kneeling and adjusting his tie while interacting with a large, black horned creature, likely a satanic or demonic figure."
Even Meta's own artificial intelligence recognized the imagery as satanic.
Zuckerberg's Courtship Just Hit a Brick Wall
The debacle comes after months of Zuckerberg bending over backwards to get back in Trump's good graces.
Trump threatened Zuckerberg with life in prison ahead of the 2024 election, writing in his book that the Meta CEO would "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he interfered in the election.
Zuckerberg responded by attending Trump's inauguration, co-hosting an inaugural reception, and having his company fork over $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.
The Facebook founder made at least three visits to the White House through March, desperately trying to position Meta as a Trump-friendly company.
He ended fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram in January, replacing it with an X-style "community notes" system that conservatives celebrated as a victory for free speech.
Zuckerberg praised Trump's election as "a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech" and appointed Republican operative Joel Kaplan as his chief policy officer.
The company even settled a 2021 lawsuit with Trump for $25 million in January and pledged another $22 million toward Trump's presidential library.
Meta announced it would invest "at least $600 billion through 2028" in U.S. infrastructure during a White House tech dinner in September.
Zuckerberg was caught on a hot mic apologizing to Trump afterward, saying "Sorry, I wasn't ready."
Meta's AI Problems Keep Getting Worse
This isn't Meta's first rodeo with controversial AI-generated content.
NBC News reported in January that despite Meta's supposed review process, users created dozens of AI chatbots on Instagram that violated company policies.
The banned characters included chatbots impersonating Jesus Christ, God, Muhammad, Taylor Swift, Donald Trump, and even Adolf Hitler.
Three AI characters called "Hitler" were found on Instagram months after Meta claimed it reviews every user-generated AI chatbot before release.
One Hitler chatbot told users "Ahahahaha, no. More like Hitler's chaotic cousin — Jester King, inspired by the Joker's madness!"
Another called "Adolf Hittler" sent what appeared to be AI-generated images about "my turbulent past in Nazi Germany."
Meta's rules explicitly ban characters of religious figures and real people without permission, yet the platform was flooded with exactly those types of AI personalities.
The company quietly shut down controversial AI character accounts in January after public outcry, then restricted search results for their usernames to cover its tracks.
BBC News revealed in June that user prompts to Meta AI were being publicly displayed in a "Discover" feed, often without users realizing their personal queries were visible to everyone.
Despite privacy controls allowing users to opt out, Meta's default settings made public exposure the standard rather than the exception.
Trump and Zuckerberg have one of the most toxic relationships in politics, and for good reason.
Meta banned Trump after January 6, 2021, silencing the sitting President of the United States while he was still in office.
They kept him locked out for two years before Facebook's Oversight Board finally reinstated his accounts in 2023.
Trump never forgot that betrayal.
He accused Zuckerberg of rigging the 2020 election and threatened him with federal prosecution.
The President wrote in his 2024 book that Zuckerberg would "spend the rest of his life in prison" if he stepped out of line again.
Now Zuckerberg is desperately trying to make amends with cash, policy changes, and Mar-a-Lago pilgrimages.
But his AI systems just created a scandal that threatens everything.
This Isn't About Technology — It's About Respect
Here's what every Christian conservative needs to understand about this incident.
Meta didn't accidentally promote some random offensive content that slipped through the cracks.
The company built AI tools specifically designed to let users create and share videos, then chose to advertise those tools by featuring imagery of the President kneeling before a demonic figure.
That's not a technical glitch.
That's a window into how Silicon Valley really views Trump and the 75 million Americans who voted for him.
You can apologize all you want about "user-generated content" and "protocols being violated."
But when your own AI describes the image as Trump "interacting with a large, black horned creature, likely a satanic or demonic figure," you don't get to play dumb about what message that sends.
The same people who spent years censoring conservatives for "misinformation" just promoted satanic imagery of the President of the United States.
Let that sink in.
They banned you for questioning COVID policies, shadowbanned your posts about election integrity, and flagged your comments about Hunter Biden's laptop as "false information."
But depicting the President bowing to Satan?
That made it into an official Meta advertisement.
¹ Amber Jo Cooper, "Instagram Promoted New AI Creation Tool With Video Of Trump Kneeling Before Satanic Demon," The Daily Wire, November 17, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Kalhan Rosenblatt, "Meta hosts AI chatbots of 'Hitler,' 'Jesus Christ,' Taylor Swift," NBC News, January 7, 2025.
