President Trump sent off another flurry of Truth Social posts this morning, featuring Iranian fighter jets being zapped by lasers, mock-ups of a new Trump $100 bill and a morbidly obese Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, chowing down.

The AI-generated picture shows Pritzker sitting down to a vast buffet of nachos, fried chicken, pizza, hamburgers, a chocolate milkshake and – somewhat incongruously – spaghetti and meatballs. “J.B. is too busy to keep Chicago safe!” reads the caption.

Cockburn notes how AI is changing Trump’s comedic style, which increasingly leans towards the pictorial rather than text. Unlike previous adversaries, the President has yet to give Pritzker a nickname à la “Sloppy” Steve Bannon or “Cryin’” Chuck Schumer.

These nicknames were some of the finest examples of political rhetoric in living memory – but these days it’s much easier for the President to let an aide fire up Grok for a picture of a foe pigging out or wearing a sombrero

The images are funny in their own way but, as with so much of what AI creates, something is certainly lost along the way…

MONEY WELL SPENT? The Iran war has cost $29 billion to date, acting Pentagon comptroller Jules W. Hurst III told the House Appropriations Committee this morning.

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