TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

Donald Trump, the convicted felon and present President of america, 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 means potential.

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

What’s improper with the photographs on TrumpRx? For starters, the primary photograph you see is of Trump himself, one thing that is probably not an enormous shock, given the best way this president has put his identify and face on every thing. In spite of everything, that is the man who lately launched a TV advert on Newsmax for Trump Watches, which continues his custom of benefiting from the presidency in direct violation of U.S. regulation.

The photograph exhibits Trump seated within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, the place he’s sporting that signature dipshit-tough-guy face he’s been working towards because the Nineteen Eighties. It’s not shocking to see his face, nevertheless it’s nonetheless gross. And it will’ve been fairly galling if President Barack Obama had accomplished one thing related below his presidency.

When healthcare.gov was launched in 2010, Obama’s photograph 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 photograph on TrumpRx that doesn’t depict Trump can also be disturbing in its personal means. The picture appears prefer it was generated by synthetic intelligence, a ridiculous and pointless alternative when you will get an affordable inventory photograph on any variety of web sites. It’s additionally only a disturbingly alien-like picture if you happen to take a more in-depth look.

The unique picture could appear regular sufficient at first look, however you may simply really feel it’s off. Zooming in on the palms reveals it truly is a type of weird AI pictures, creating distorted palms with contorted fingers.

AI nonetheless typically has bother producing palms, as you may see within the picture above. However the legs additionally give a bizarre vibe, with the lady’s left calf wanting abnormally brief, and dropping off right into a weird-looking heel and foot.

The lady additionally seems to be holding palms with one of many youngsters in a multitude of fingers that appears bodily unimaginable. That little one’s foot doesn’t look typical both, as an alternative sporting perhaps 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 sort 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 sort of footprints which can be sometimes made by people.

There’s additionally the American flag on the prime of the hill, which doesn’t seem to have any stars. Possibly it’s a sign that Trump intends to do away with 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,” in line with the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine. But it surely received 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 govt order in August, and says that TrumpRx will probably be practical in January 2026. And the Nationwide Design Studio additionally praises the president in actually creepy methods, as you may 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 improper. 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 every thing is bizarre now, due to 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 may be true. However his military of lackeys on the White Home is aware of very nicely what makes him glad.

Slapping his identify on every thing is Trump’s factor. And if he thought it was inappropriate (which it clearly is), he may’ve stopped it. As an alternative, the location bears his identify, and his face is the very first thing you see. And the textual content on the one-page web site consists of snarky claims about him saving the day by supposedly reducing drug costs.

From the web site:

President Trump is delivering on guarantees that “specialists” mentioned have been unimaginable 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 bought overseas for a fraction of the value paid within the U.S.

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

President Trump is altering that with TrumpRx.

It ought to be famous that Trump hasn’t truly lowered drug costs. The truth is, every time Trump proclaims a brand new deal that’s ostensibly about reducing drug costs, the main 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 chunk 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 folks with out insurance coverage, most Individuals are unlikely to see their prices go down. And with Trump’s so-called “Large Stunning Invoice,” increasingly more Individuals will probably be paying greater premiums subsequent 12 months. Saving a few bucks on a prescription is unlikely to offset these huge prices.

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

However we reside 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 immediately with the perfect costs, rising transparency and reducing out expensive third-party markups.”

We nonetheless don’t know the way all of that is going to function. However we do know that, in line with the Wall Street Journal, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., is on the board of an organization referred to as BlinkRx that stands to profit from the TrumpRx web site. 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 assume they’ll be compelled to work with an organization with shut ties to the president’s son.