Trump’s Chicago meme continues admin’s trend of fascist s**tposting

In any other presidential term but this one the commander-in-chief joking about invading a major American city using a meme based on the U S bombing of Vietnam would cause at least a scarce days of shame In Donald Trump s second term it s unlikely to outlive the weekend For the uninitiated Trump shared an edited image of himself as Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now on Saturday as part of his ongoing threats to carry out military actions in Chicago I love the smell of deportations in the morning he captioned the image Chicago is about to find out why it s called the Department of War That post caused an understandable uproar among Illinois representatives and general believers in the sovereignty of states and cities This is not a joke Illinois Gov J B Pritzker wrote on X in response This is not normal That cycle of outrage wiped away a embarrassment over Vice President J D Vance downplaying extrajudicial killings in a social media tit-for-tat After the U S military carried out an operation against alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers Vance called the deployment the highest and best use of our military on X When influencer Brian Krassenstein pointed out that the operation could be considered a war crime the vice president was dismissive I don t give a s t what you call it he noted That story helped erase one from earlier this week in which the Department of Labor shared a propaganda poster for its apprenticeship listings that rang a scarce too multiple Nazi Germany bells in the minds of its audience The image a towheaded young man in front of a map of the United States with the slogan Build your homeland s future alarmed social media users https t co IuqkysMA X pic twitter com KxNPDaIG T U S Department of Labor USDOL September That Marx quote about how history repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce is prescient as consistently wrote one commentator Feds using your tax dollars to make AI slop Nazi homages The Trump administration has a poster s heart constantly churning out half-thought-out riffs on propaganda posters hopping on AI trends and playing keyboard tough guy Aided by the algorithm s endless churn and the -hour news cycle s constant present they ve turned trolling into a key plank of their agenda Steve Bannon s mantra of flooding the zone with s t has been supercharged with tools like generative AI and the relentless feed of sharp sticks to the eye means no one even remembers when the same administration was using Hiyao Miyazaki-style art to brag about deporting families or when Trump echoed one of the majority of famous Nazis in the history of musical theater The feed refreshes automatically after all goose-stepping us toward the next bit of juvenile edgelordism from the phone-addicted folks who run the country Read more about this topic Jet holiday ad audio used in ICE deportation video Typical of authoritarian regimes Deportation tied to Vance Babyface meme sparks global outrage Is clanker a slur Anti-robot jokes accused of being thinly veiled racism The post Trump s Chicago meme continues admin s trend of fascist s tposting appeared first on Salon com