Get Your Waders An image depicting former president Donald Trump wading through floodwaters alongside a fellow disaster responder went viral on social media this week. But there’s one tiny problem: the image is an AI-generated fake, as multiple publications have confirmed. The image, which shows Trump wearing a lifejacket and blue jeans as he marches through thigh-high waters, first picked up steam on Facebook last weekend. And it doesn’t hold up to virtually any degree of scrutiny. Trump’s right hand is distorted, and the lettering pictured on either man’s clothing is completely illegible. The former president has visited some areas impacted by the storm, but there are no credible reports of the candidate physically going into floodwaters in blue jeans, making it only the latest instance of highly politicized AI slop ahead of the presidential elections next month. Slop Flood As of publishing this article, the image has garnered over ten thousand likes on Facebook. “I don’t think FB wants this picture on FB,” the poster wrote in a caption, implying the social media giant may have been removing the post for political reasons. “They have been deleting it.” Despite alleged censorship, the image was shared roughly 160,000 times in just two days, according to a fact check from USA Today. (The photo is still live on Facebook, though has been flagged with an “altered photo” warning and a link to an independent, third-party fact check.) The image quickly spread to other corners of social media, where users captioned the synthetic…No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons