Trump’s AI Gaza Video Is the Tip of a Horrifying ‘Gaz-A-Lago’ Iceberg

On Monday night President Donald Trump posted a nightmarish AI-generated video that depicted a Gaza rebuilt in his own image. NBC News tracked down the source of the video, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg. The “Trump Gaza” video is one piece of art that’s part of a grotesque online meme movement depicting “Gaz-A-Lago,” a place rife with namecoins, NFTS, and imagined futures.

Trump posted the AI-generated video—which shows bearded belly dancers gyrating next to Trump, Elon Musk eating a pita, and a golden statue in the middle of a city square—on February 25, 2025. According to NBC News, the video was originally posted on X on February 7, days after Trump pitched turning Gaza into a resort community.

On February 4, Trump appeared with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and pitched a bizarre and horrifying plan. “The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it,” Trump said. “Everybody I have spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know.”

It would, Trump said, become the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

Online Trump fans took the image of a Trump casino and resort built up in the ruins of Gaza and ran with it. A day after the press conference, a Grok-generated image of Trump and Netanyahu sunning themselves on the “Gaza Riviera” appeared on X for the first time. Two days later, a moving version of that image appeared in the AI-generated video that Trump would make go viral weeks later.

The source of the video appears to be an X account called “Nazi Hunters.” The account shares a mix of pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian content. Some of it is CCTV footage, some of it is commentary about the war in Gaza and anti-semitism, and some of it is AI-generated memes and videos.

Looks like the Gaz-A-Lago resort already dropped its first official tourism promo 😂 pic.twitter.com/ccQWZ8FLU7

— Nazi Hunters (@HuntersOfNazis) February 7, 2025

The video Trump shared is one of the first memetic visions of “Gaz-A-Lago” to break into the mainstream internet, but there’s a lot of it bubbling under the surface if you look. X is full of AI-generated images of sandy beaches and resort communities with a “Gaz-A-Lago” sign sitting next to the water. One of the most grotesque is a bird’s eye view of a golf course surrounded by a distant city. The words “All Eyes on Raffah” are spelled out on the green, a parody of a viral AI-generated image from last year.

Ok “Gaz-a-Lago” is the best one so far. Kudos to Michael if it’s his original. https://t.co/9Xu6une5z8 pic.twitter.com/IkFAEm6R71

— Strxwmxn 🤘 (@strxwmxn) February 5, 2025

And then there are the memecoins. Over on pump.fun, a place where anyone can launch a cryptocurrency in a few minutes, there are too many “Gaz-A-Lago” coins to count. Most of them only have a market cap of a few thousand dollars, but there are a few that have broken through and grabbed up more than $10 grand in value. The most popular, with a market cap of $170,000 as of this writing, is “Gaz-A-Lago Official ($GAZA).

The memecoin has a website. It’s promising NFTs, merch, and a community. In classic fly-by-night crypto fashion, its Telegram link goes nowhere, its Discord link is null, and its X account has been restricted. A note at the bottom of the site waves away the horror of what it’s doing.

“This project is associated with a meme token and aims to bring levity to the ongoing conflict in Gaza,” the site says. “We acknowledge the serious nature of the situation and encourage constructive dialogue, empathy, and humanitarian support.”

$GAZA wants to sell people NFTs that imagine a Gaza rebuilt in Donald Trump’s image. The NFTs will feature luxury properties, exotic cars, and business assets. Its vision is “to reimagine Gaza as a premier luxury destination through blockchain-driven crowdfunding and digital ownership,” it says. If all goes well, the plan is to leverage earnings from the memecoin and NFTs into “physical infrastructure projects” that include “partnerships with tourism and real estate developers.”

This is all, of course, a joke to its creator. It’s a memecoin, a rug-pull with a website on top of it to make it seem real. But it’s got a market cap approaching $200,000. Someone is making a little money here. And the creator is promising to donate 2% of all $GAZA transactions to humanitarian aid organizations. It says it supports UNICEF’s mission in Gaza.

It’s possible, and even probable, that the pretensions to donate to humanitarian aid are a joke too. That disclaimer looms at the bottom of the website. “This website is purely satirical and is intended for entertainment and comedic purposes only,” it says.

Yet there is a link that works on the website. “Buy $GAZA Now” will take you to pump.fun where you can spend real money on the satire built on human suffering and Trump’s delusional dream for the future of a devastated Gaza.