"It's a stylized picture of droopy-mouthed Donald Trump, his face Mao-red, saturation cranked way up, details obliterated in an onslaught of digital filters-an effect the kids call "deep fried." Trump is flanked by oversize emojis-the laughing-crying face and the somber-and-downcast face with prayer hands-and spanning the top and bottom of the frame are the words BRO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT."
"The Trump administration demonstrated its growing fluency with memes earlier this year, when government X accounts posted exceedingly cruel images of distressed, caricatured migrants and of alligators wearing ICE hats (referencing the "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant-detention facility). But at this point in Trump's presidency, the meme war has fanatical soldiers on both sides. Shortly after the shutdown began, the president posted a minute-long AI-generated music video parodying Blue Öyster Cult's"
A stylized, deep-fried image of Donald Trump—Mao-red, over-saturated, and flanked by oversized emojis—appeared on Governor Kathy Hochul's press-office X account with the caption BRO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT. The federal government shut down on October 1 because Congress failed to appropriate funds for the coming year's operations. Hundreds of thousands of federal employees are furloughed and many more are working without pay. Both parties have used crude memes and social-media comedy to shift blame during the stalemate. The Trump administration previously posted cruel meme imagery targeting migrants, and the president posted an AI-generated music-video parody shortly after the shutdown began.
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