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This weekend, President Donald Trump posted to social media an AI-rendered photo of himself as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore from Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) with helicopters shown flying away from the city and “Chipocalypse Now” emblazoned across it in the original film’s iconic typeface. Accompanying the image, Trump tweeted, “‘I love the smell of deportations in the morning…’ Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.”

There’s so much wrong with this, but let’s isolate the factor most relevant to this column: its connection to Coppola’s famously not-anti-war film. Coppola acknowledges that himself, noting that

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