President Donald Trump has shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social showing his aging from childhood to the present day, remarking 'Wow!!!' as the footage unfolds. The montage begins with a four-year-old Trump and accelerates through key moments of his life, ending with a stern 79-year-old version of the president.
Notably, the only other person featured in the video is Trump's second wife, Marla Maples, to whom he was married from 1993 to 1999. No mention is made of his first wife, Ivana Trump, mother of Donald Jr., Eric, and Ivanka, or his current wife, First Lady Melania Trump, mother of Barron.
The video opens with a smiling child and moves to a yearbook photo from the New York Military Academy in 1964, when Trump was 18. It then jumps to 1976, showing him as an emerging businessman at 30, before highlighting his acquisition of Mar-a-Lago and the Atlantic City Hilton in 1985, and ownership of the Miss Universe Pageant in 1996.
Later segments capture Trump hosting NBC's The Apprentice in 2005, re-registering as a Republican in 2012, and his historic descent from Trump Tower's golden escalators in 2015 to announce his presidential run. The video concludes with a 2025 image of Trump, appearing older and more severe than his earlier corporate persona.
The soundtrack features Alphaville's 1980s synthpop hit 'Forever Young,' with lyrics asking, 'Do you really want to live forever?' The video was posted as part of Trump's increasingly frequent social media activity.
