TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

Donald Trump, the convicted felon and present President of the US, formally launched a brand new authorities web site dubbed TrumpRx throughout a press convention on the White Home on Friday. It’s very Trumpy. And we imply that within the worst approach potential.

You may’t truly do something but on the web site, which is hosted at TrumpRx.gov, however the images don’t give us a variety of religion that that is going to be a dependable place to serve America’s healthcare wants.

What’s incorrect with the pictures on TrumpRx? For starters, the primary picture you see is of Trump himself, one thing that will not be an enormous shock, given the way in which this president has put his identify and face on all the things. In any case, that is the man who not too long ago launched a TV advert on Newsmax for Trump Watches, which continues his custom of making the most of the presidency in direct violation of U.S. regulation.

The picture reveals Trump seated within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, the place he’s sporting that signature dipshit-tough-guy face he’s been practising for the reason that Eighties. It’s not stunning to see his face, however it’s nonetheless gross. And it might’ve been fairly galling if President Barack Obama had accomplished one thing comparable beneath his presidency.

When healthcare.gov was launched in 2010, Obama’s picture was nowhere to be seen on that homepage. Obamacare, the unofficial identify for the Reasonably priced Care Act, was truly coined by Republicans who opposed the regulation.

However the lone picture on TrumpRx that doesn’t depict Trump can also be disturbing in its personal approach. The picture seems prefer it was generated by synthetic intelligence, a ridiculous and pointless selection when you may get an inexpensive inventory picture on any variety of web sites. It’s additionally only a disturbingly alien-like picture should you take a more in-depth look.

The unique picture could seem regular sufficient at first look, however you’ll be able to simply really feel it’s off. Zooming in on the fingers reveals it truly is a kind of weird AI pictures, creating distorted fingers with contorted fingers.

AI nonetheless usually has hassle producing fingers, as you’ll be able to see within the picture above. However the legs additionally give a bizarre vibe, with the girl’s left calf trying abnormally quick, and dropping off right into a weird-looking heel and foot.

The girl additionally seems to be holding fingers with one of many youngsters in a large number of fingers that appears bodily inconceivable. That baby’s foot doesn’t look typical both, as a substitute sporting possibly six toes or maybe getting mangled in some industrial accident. You may create your individual backstory, however no matter occurred there should’ve been painful for our imaginary AI buddy.

There additionally seems to be some form of deformity within the leg of the kid on the very entrance, to say nothing of all of the holes within the sand, which look way more like AI-generated circles on an alien planet than the form of footprints which are usually made by people.

There’s additionally the American flag on the high of the hill, which doesn’t seem to have any stars. Perhaps it’s a sign that Trump intends to eliminate federalism, abolishing state governance as he invades states with the Nationwide Guard prefer it’s international territory.

The TrumpRx web site was first launched on Friday and initially contained textual content that learn: “Tune in to the Oval Workplace @5PM EST,” based on the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine. However it acquired a brand new look when Trump began his press convention on Friday.

The positioning is credited to the National Design Studio, launched by Trump by way of an government order in August, and says that TrumpRx shall be purposeful in January 2026. And the Nationwide Design Studio additionally praises the president in actually creepy methods, as you’ll be able to see from the opening line at that initiative’s web site:

What’s the greatest model in the world? If you mentioned Trump, you’re not incorrect. However what’s the basis of that model? One that’s extra globally acknowledged than virtually something else.

It’s the nation…the place he was born. It’s the United States of America.

Every thing Trump, on a regular basis.

It’s actually bizarre how that turned the brand new regular in a rustic that’s ostensibly a liberal democracy. However nearly all the things is bizarre now, because of Trump.

The president insisted throughout his press convention, which was livestreamed on YouTube, that it wasn’t his concept to name the web site TrumpRX. And that could be true. However his military of lackeys on the White Home is aware of very properly what makes him blissful.

Slapping his identify on all the things is Trump’s factor. And if he thought it was inappropriate (which it clearly is), he might’ve stopped it. As an alternative, the positioning bears his identify, and his face is the very first thing you see. And the textual content on the one-page website contains snarky claims about him saving the day by supposedly decreasing drug costs.

From the web site:

President Trump is delivering on guarantees that “consultants” mentioned have been inconceivable by taking daring motion to decrease prescription drug prices for American households—with out sacrificing innovation.

Individuals have unfairly shouldered the price of drug improvement for many years, solely to see those self same drugs offered overseas for a fraction of the worth paid within the U.S.

This damaged system hasn’t simply been unfair—it’s pushed up prices and damage probably the most susceptible amongst us.

President Trump is altering that with TrumpRx.

It ought to be famous that Trump hasn’t truly lowered drug costs. In reality, every time Trump broadcasts a brand new deal that’s ostensibly about decreasing drug costs, the foremost pharmaceutical corporations see their inventory costs go up. Why? It might need one thing to do with the truth that he’s not truly going to chew into their margins, and any decline in costs will solely profit a small variety of Individuals.

Most Individuals pay for drugs by way of insurance coverage, and the offers Trump has introduced with corporations like Pfizer largely goal cash-paying clients. And whereas that’s nice for individuals with out insurance coverage, most Individuals are unlikely to see their prices go down. And with Trump’s so-called “Large Lovely Invoice,” increasingly Individuals shall be paying greater premiums subsequent yr. Saving a few bucks on a prescription is unlikely to offset these monumental prices.

Trump’s press convention on Friday had the standard suspects, together with the top of Medicare and Medicaid, Mehmet Oz, together with the well being secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has beforehand mentioned that you simply shouldn’t belief consultants. Kennedy additionally mentioned this week {that a} child grows in a girl’s placenta, the form of ignorance that may, once more, not really feel so normalized in a unique political period.

However we stay within the Trump period. And solely time will inform whether or not TrumpRx truly does some good on the earth. We’re not going to carry our breath. The web site explains that “TrumpRx doesn’t promote drugs. As an alternative, it connects sufferers straight with one of the best costs, rising transparency and chopping out pricey third-party markups.”

We nonetheless don’t know the way all of that is going to function. However we do know that, based on the Wall Street Journal, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is on the board of an organization known as BlinkRx that stands to profit from the TrumpRx website. Don Jr. is internet hosting a “Way forward for Prescription drugs” summit in December, and drug firm representatives are reportedly nervous as a result of they suppose they’ll be pressured to work with an organization with shut ties to the president’s son.