Official White House social media posts these days can more closely resemble troll-ish meme accounts than a sober dissemination of information from the United States’ highest political office. President Donald Trump’s White House likes it that way.
Accounts associated with the administration have touted Trump’s landmark policy law using a “ Bump It ” hair accessory commercial that was popularized around 2010. They’ve shared AI-generated images of Trump as the pope, Superman and a jacked Star Wars character holding a red lightsaber typically wielded by villains in the series. They’ve depicted border czar Tom Homan as the sun from the 1990s children’s show “Teletubbies,” rising over the border wall and talking about deporting undocumented immigrants.
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