Trump, alongside first lady, to sign bill criminalizing revenge porn and AI deepfakes

President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign Take Download – a draft law that punishes abuse of internet that involves unusual and explicit images.

The president is scheduled to sign the draft law from the White House on Monday afternoon, joined by the first lady Melania Trump, who has been defending the case since her husband was installed.

Take It Download is a draft law presented in the Senate by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-TEXAS, Amy Klobuchar, D-MINN. , It would make a federal crime to publish or threaten to spread unusual intimate images, including the “digital counterfeit” made of artificial intelligence. The draft law was unanimously approved in February, and it was approved in the House of Representatives in April with a vote of 409-2.

Melania Trump talks about Capitol Hill for the first time at the round table that focuses on punishing revenge porn

The law will require penalties of up to three years in prison to exchange intimate intimate images-authentic or created artificial intelligence-which includes minors and two years in prison for those images that include adults. It will also require penalties of up to two and a half years in prison due to threat crimes involved in minors, and a year and a half imprisonment in the threats involved in adults.

The draft law will require social media companies, such as Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram, and similar platforms, to develop procedures to remove this content within 48 hours of notification from the victim.

AI’s “Deepfakes” images often include video clips or pictures of people to make them look like someone else using artificial intelligence. Deepfakes hit the audience’s radar in 2017 after the Reddit user published a realistic appearance of celebrities to the platform, and the opening of flood gates for users who use artificial intelligence to make the images look more convincing and widely shared in the following years.

Currently, almost every American state has a law that protects people from unusual intimate images violations, but laws differ in crime classification and punishment.

In March, the first lady spoke to the Capitol Hill for the first time since she returned to the White House to participate in a round table with legislators and porn victims for revenge and launch.

The 15 -year -old first lady, who used her high school peers Amnesty International to create unusual images for her and publish them on social media.

First Lady Melania Trump talks during a round table discuss (Getty Images)

Trump said: “It is heartbreaking to witness young men, especially girls, are struggling with the overwhelming challenges offered by the online malignant content, such as Deepfakes,” Trump said. “This toxic environment can be severely harmful. We must give priority to its well -being by preparing them with support and tools necessary to move in this anti -digital scene. Every young man deserves a safe space via the Internet to express themselves freely, without the threat that looms on the horizon of exploitation or damage.”

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Perry, a citizen of Texas, told the round table that she was only fourteen years old when she realized in 2023 that. “A previous image on Instagram with a naked body and a connected face of artificial intelligence, “was on social media.

“Fear, shock and disgust were just some of the many feelings she felt,” Perry said. “I felt responsible and started blame myself and I was ashamed to tell my father. Although nothing was wrong. When I joined the school, I felt fear of someone’s reactions or anyone could re -create these pictures.”

“We need to hold a large technology to take action,” the young woman continued. “I have come here today not only to promote this draft law, but to fight for the freedom of many survivors, millions of people, males, children, teenage children, and all children are affected by the rise of this sexual sexual assault. This is unacceptable. If this, he will give a voice to victims and provide justice.”

Another young girl, Francesca Mane, from New Jersey, has also released that she was fourteen years old when she and other peers found Deepfakers on the Internet.

“Adolescents may not know all the laws, but they know when there is something wrong,” Mane said. “Schools need immediate and dangerous measures to ensure that artificial intelligence exploits, harassment and abuse of Deepfake with real consequences.”

The first lady in the United States, Melania Trump, interacts on the day of US President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, in the Capitol House Chamber in Washington, DC, United States, March 4, 2025. Evelyn Hokestein/Reuters/Reuters

The first lady for young women called for her private guests for the first Trump speech to a joint session of Congress in March.

The sharing of explicit uniform images and the establishment of Amnesty International on social media and the Internet not only affects young girls, as young boys and adults also face similar crimes. A woman named Breeze Liu told the round table that she worked tirelessly to remove images created from herself and that fell on a porn site in 2020 when she was 24 years old.

The Republican Representative in South Carolina, Brandon Joffee, also joined a group of legislators and first lady in March, and how his 17 -year -old son committed suicide in 2022 after he fell into a fraud.

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“I lost my eldest son, Gavin Joffee, to commit suicide,” participated. “We quickly discovered that he was blackmailed on the Internet. A person pretending to be a young female in another college who asked to share pictures back and forth. Once he shared those pictures, he took his life. It was an hour and 40 minutes from the time he was contacted until the time he took his life.”

Meanwhile, during the first Trump administration, Melania Trump hosted a virtual round to care for custody as part of the “Be Best” initiative and focus on strengthening the child care system. The “Be Best” initiative also focused on online safety.

She said: “As the first lady, the commitment towards the” Be Best “initiative emphasizes the importance of online safety.” “In an era in which digital reactions are an integral part of daily life, it is necessary to protect children from intermediate and painful behavior online.”

The first lady said, in March, that the bill “represents a strong step towards justice, recovery and unity.”