White House Trolls Drake With AI Album Edit, Internet Erupts

The White House just turned Drake’s album cover into a political meme, and the internet’s reaction is exactly as split as you’d expect.

On Friday, May 15, President Donald Trump’s official White House X account posted an AI-altered version of Drake’s latest album Iceman. Instead of the Grammy winner’s original blinged-out glove adorned with crystals, the edited image showed a hand holding a chain necklace with a“MAGA”pendant. The caption? Simply“ICED OUT,”with the presidential seal planted in the top left corner like a brand stamp.

Deputy Assistant to the President Kaelan Dorr confirmed the stunt when pressed, replying“Yes. Can confirm.”to a media inquiry. That casual acknowledgment seemed to signal this wasn’t a hack or a mistake—it was pure, unfiltered trolling from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The reaction split instantly into two camps. Critics fired back hard, with one X user declaring“We have the most unprofessional, immature government of all time,”while another sarcastically lamented“Gas is 12 trillion dollars a gallon and y’all on here playing around!”Others leaned into the humor, with supporters cheering the irreverent energy.“We are witnessing an all time great Administration, soak it in,”one follower wrote.

Here’s the kicker: Drake, 39, has never been shy about his political stance. Back in 2017 at a London concert, the rapper publicly criticized Trump, telling the crowd“If you think one man can tear this world apart, you’re out of your motherf***ing mind.”The move also fits into a larger pattern. In April, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus before it was quietly removed. Weeks later, another AI photo surfaced showing the president shirtless with his cabinet lounging at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool—an image so audacious that on May 12, the White House was sued by the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior for changing the pool without“mandatory procedures.”

Whether you see this as genius-level political messaging or the death of institutional dignity, one thing’s certain: the Trump White House has decided that social media is its personal creative sandbox, and decorum is officially off the menu.