'Let them eat lead': Alex Jones targets Trump with Marie Antoinette image

On Sunday, President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus, prompting widespread outrage from many Christians. Then on Thursday morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a press briefing in which he compared Trump to Jesus.

Later in the morning, in a post to X, far-right commentator Alex Jones shared his own AI-Trump comparison: Trump as Marie Antoinette.

“TRUMP ‘MARIE ANTOINETTE’ SAYS,” declared Jones, "’It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things... We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country,’ Trump said. He should have just said ‘let them eat lead, with a nice helping of hyper inflation.’”

While Jones has been a longtime ally of Trump, supporting him since the beginning of his first campaign in 2015, the relationship between the two has soured in recent months as the podcaster has become increasingly alarmed by the president’s behavior and his pro-war rather than “America First” policies.

In a follow-up post, Jones explained his reasoning behind comparing Trump to Antoinette.

“Trump's budget funnels $895B to Lockheed and Raytheon,” wrote Jones, “up 4.1%, while axing $800B from Medicaid, states bleed for Ukraine aid. Donors get cake; we get lead and hyperinflation. My point is Trump is changing his priority from domestic to foreign and telling us unlimited welfare for Israel is wonderful. Obviously the federal government needs to be cut, but you can’t slash entitlements in an election year and then spend trillions on wars at the same time. His behavior and statements literally look and sound like Marie Antoinette’s.”

Jones has previously criticized the president’s claim that the U.S. must prioritize war over domestic programs like Medicare and Medicaid, saying, “That’s always the big third rail situation that you know you don’t touch. That’s political suicide.”

In recent weeks, Jones has also questioned Trump’s mental and physical health, asserting Trump’s massively swollen ankles are a sign of “heart failure” and his behavior smacks of “dementia.”

“He does look sick,” said Jones. “And he does babble and sound like the brain’s not doing too hot.”

According to Jones, Trump’s actions have become too “erratic” to ignore, to the point where he has suggested invoking the 25^th Amendment to remove the president from office.

“I think we’re dealing with the madness of King George III here,” said Jones. “We got a big, big problem.”