\u201cThe demand has been incredible\u2013we are reprinting as fast as we can but inventory is limited so get yours today,\u201d he crowed, adding a link to the book\u2019s landing page on Jeff Bezos\u2019 site. <\/p>\n
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Trump, who has described Kirk as \u201ca great friend and an amazing person,\u201d appeared to use his fallen comrade to plug his book. Eric Trump\/X <\/p>\n
The post was accompanied by an unsettling, AI-generated video of a room jam-packed with people, whose faces skew and distort as the camera angle in the room changes. Their non-blinking eyes remain fixed on the camera, and a creepy, dull horror movie echo rings out. <\/p>\n
The crowd raises the book aloft in total unison, letting out a battle cry as they wave the $29 memoir. \u2018Make your own with Grok,\u2019 a note on the video encourages X users.<\/p>\n
The bizarre clip marks the latest in a string of eyebrow-raising efforts by Trump, 41, to promote his book. One of the most conspicuous instances came when he appeared to use the death of conservative activist Charlie\u202fKirk to plug it. <\/p>\n
In September, during a chat on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo, Trump described Kirk\u2014whom he called \u201ca great friend and an amazing person\u201d\u2014as the victim of a \u201chit on our country.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s a hit on our movement. It\u2019s a hit on Christianity. It\u2019s a hit on religion. It\u2019s a hit on freedom.\u201d <\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump poses with a copy of Eric Trump’s new memoir, ‘Under Siege.’ Donald J. Trump\/Truth Social\/Donald J. Trump\/Truth Social <\/p>\n
He then shifted into book-promotion mode: \u201cIt came out on Wednesday, and then this happens to Charlie\u2026 That would have been another chapter in this book. There\u2019s nothing that emphasizes Under Siege more than what they did to Charlie.\u201d Shortly afterwards, he posted a direct Amazon link to the book on X.<\/p>\n
Kirk had been murdered just days before as he spoke at a university in Utah. <\/p>\n
The book itself was released this month and features a foreword by his father, former President Donald\u202fJ.\u202fTrump. The president has not been shy about boosting the sales himself. Earlier this month, he wrote on Truth Social: \u201cDon\u2019t forget to get a copy of my son Eric\u2019s book, \u2018UNDER SIEGE,\u2019 which is breaking records everywhere\u2026 It\u2019s a phenomenal book that\u2019s a must-read for everyone. Congratulations Eric, you deserve it!!!\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But Trump did little to substantiate what \u201crecords\u201d exactly are being broken.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the AI video promotion may be a response to an earlier flop when Trump travelled to his local Barnes\u202f&\u202fNoble\u202fin Palm\u202fBeach\u202fGardens for a signing event.<\/p>\n
However, the store appeared nearly empty in footage he posted on X. In the video he stood beside a table stacked with the books and urged passersby to \u201cCome over \u2026 a bunch of signed books.\u201d <\/p>\n
Online critics were quick to pounce. One X user quipped: \u201cPlace looks empty. Like your daddy\u2019s head.\u201d Others responded with comments such as \u201clooks empty\u201d and \u201cno one has been waiting for you.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Trump has posted a truly jarring artificial intelligence video in a weird bid to hawk his new…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,77,39024,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-donald-j-trump","11":"tag-eric-trump","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422619619611725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}