The Daily Populous Saturday March 21st, 2026 night edition
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MAGA has been swooning over photos of a blonde U.S. Army soldier, walking defiantly alongside President Donald Trump to carry out the America First agenda.

But there’s just one problem — she’s AI.

Images most likely generated by artificial intelligence depicted Jessica Foster wearing heels on a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz, posing for selfies with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and giving a speech at the president’s “Board of Peace” event earlier this year.

The account, which has since been taken down, gained more than one million followers since its mysterious creator started posting on it four months ago, The Washington Post reports.

Those commenting on how “beautiful” Foster was and applauding her “America First” message were overwhelmingly accounts with men in their profile pictures, according to the newspaper.

open image in gallery MAGA has been swooning over an AI-generated U.S. Army soldier, Jessica Foster, whose account has since been removed from Instagram. The account was plastered with fake photos of Foster with President Donald Trump. ( Instagram )

open image in gallery In one post, the AI-generated Army soldier claimed to be aboard a warship in the Strait of Hormuz amid the conflict with Iran. ( Instagram )

Some of Foster’s pictures received over 30,000 “likes,” with users commenting how “beautiful” she was, while others reacted to the ai-generated soldier with eye-hearts emojis.

Trump and his administration have fully embraced the rise of AI. It was a prominent feature of his 2024 presidential campaigning and is used across numerous federal government agencies on social media, including the White House account. It’s unclear if any Trump officials commented or shared posts from Foster’s account.

Foster’s account is another example of how AI is being used to push political agendas in wartime, as experts warned that creators are attempting to lure social media users to other paid platforms.

Before it was removed, the account was reportedly linked to another OnlyFans account, where users have to pay for subscriptions to access often pornographic content. The platform told the Post that it removed the account linked to Foster’s Instagram because the creator was not verified.

Sam Gregory of video-advocacy group Witness, which researches deepfakes, told the newspaper that Foster’s account “exemplifies how deceptive” AI generators can be.

Gregory said the AI-generated Army woman is “the apotheosis of what MAGA fantasizes about all packed into one channel.”

open image in gallery Foster’s account is another example of how AI is being used to push political agendas, particularly in wartime, as experts warned that creators are attempting to lure social media users to paid platforms ( Instagram )

“But it’s obviously AI: There’s no provenance to the images, no history around her, visible glitches,” Gregory told the Post. “There’s any number of real and unreal beautiful women online, but having one that’s so proximate to power, around the big events of the day, has a different cachet.”

An Army spokesperson told the Post that officials found no record of Foster.

Since the original AI-generated account disappeared from Instagram, others have popped up in its place replicating the same AI-generated images.

The Independent has contacted Meta, Instagram’s parent company, for comment.

Experts who study misinformation and artificial intelligence warned that accounts like Fosters allow propaganda to spread like wildfire on social media.

“The danger of this is that we’re moving toward a society of the unreal,” Joan Donovan, an assistant professor at Boston University, told the Post. “It’s one way to get political messaging across, and it’s effective.”

Former Illinois GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said it was “insane” that the account had a million followers.

“Jessica Foster is clearly not a soldier in the U.S. Army,” he said in a post on social media. “Jessica Foster is AI. Jessica Foster has a million followers. And if you look at the comments and what some of the people are saying...My goodness, the people that fall for AI, the MAGAs, the old men…come on. This is insane.”

RyanTheQ on March 20th, 2026 at 15:31 UTC »

It's astounding how easy it is to psyop these people. I mean just look at the uniforms. Exposed midriff and patches on the t-shirt? Those heels, too. Are those regulation fuck me pumps?

InanetV on March 20th, 2026 at 15:26 UTC »

They do it for police too. It’s all over FB and IG.

MAGA acts like Republican women are so much more beautiful than liberal women, but have to use AI. All Republican women I know look like they are going to Sturgis 365 days out of the year or like their face is melting off their body.

BlotchComics on March 20th, 2026 at 15:26 UTC »

When you believe literally anything that supports the narrative you want, reality gets harder and harder for you to discern.