"At first glance, the image has all the trappings of a Serious Tactical Raid Photo, à la Pete Souza's famous Situation Room snapshot, which showed President Barack Obama and his national-security team tracking the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. But then you see what's behind Hegseth: a large screen displaying an X feed. The photo is blurry, but it seems to show Hegseth and company using X's search function to monitor tweets about the raid."
"The photo quickly spread around the internet on Saturday-mostly as a way to mock just how terminally online the Trump administration appears to be. "They monitor the situation just like how we do," one person who works in crypto wrote on X. On Bluesky, I watched others make fun of Hegseth, Trump, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as part of a "podcaster-occupied government.""
An image showed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a makeshift command center in Mar-a-Lago monitoring a raid on a laptop while a large screen displayed an X feed with an oversized emoji. The photo was shared by President Donald Trump on Truth Social and spread online, prompting mockery about the administration's online habits. Government accounts on X increasingly publish cruel, racist, and provocative posts, including deportation ASMR, AI-altered images of detained people, comparisons of immigrants to video-game aliens, and Nazi-coded memes. The social-media orientation has blurred lines between official operations and online trolling.
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