Content note: Racist caricature: an AI-generated image depicting Haitian immigrants as pet-eaters. This object is shown as it was published. Why
AI-generated image from the Springfield pet-eating claim
Content note: racist caricature. An AI-generated image of Donald Trump carrying two kittens away from two shirtless Black men, shared by pro-Trump accounts on X in September 2024 amid the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating residents' pets. City officials and police said there were no credible reports of it. The image pins on a named immigrant group a crime that city officials said they had no credible reports of.
- Date
- September 9, 2024
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Unknown creator; circulated by pro-Trump accounts on X
- Region
- Transnational or online
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Digital posts
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Biden Administration
- Leader
- Joe Biden
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Themes
- Migration, Race and ethnicity, Elections and party politics
- Event
- 2024 US Election
- Techniques
- Scapegoating
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved September 27, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (AI-generated, no human author)
Text on the object
No printed or legible text on this object.
AI-generated image of a man in a suit carrying two kittens across a grass field, with two men running behind him. Checked closely: no signage, clothing text, labels or any other printed or legible text appears anywhere in the frame.
