TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare

Donald Trump, the convicted felon and present President of the USA, 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 attainable.

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

What’s unsuitable with the pictures on TrumpRx? For starters, the primary photograph you see is of Trump himself, one thing that might not be an enormous shock, given the best way this president has put his title and face on every thing. In spite of everything, 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 photograph 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 because the Nineteen Eighties. It’s not shocking to see his face, nevertheless it’s nonetheless gross. And it might’ve been fairly galling if President Barack Obama had performed one thing related beneath his presidency.

When healthcare.gov was launched in 2010, Obama’s photograph was nowhere to be seen on that homepage. Obamacare, the unofficial title for the Reasonably priced Care Act, was really 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 approach. The picture appears to be like prefer it was generated by synthetic intelligence, a ridiculous and pointless alternative when you may get an affordable inventory photograph on any variety of web sites. It’s additionally only a disturbingly alien-like picture should you take a better look.

The unique picture could appear regular sufficient at first look, however you may 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 may see within the picture above. However the legs additionally give a bizarre vibe, with the girl’s left calf wanting abnormally brief, and dropping off right into a weird-looking heel and foot.

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

There additionally seems to be some type 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 type of footprints which might be usually made by people.

There’s additionally the American flag on the high 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 keeping with the Web Archive’s Wayback Machine. However it obtained a brand new look when Trump began his press convention on Friday.

The location is credited to the National Design Studio, launched by Trump by means of an govt order in August, and says that TrumpRx will likely be purposeful 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 stated Trump, you’re not unsuitable. 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.

The whole lot 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 thought to name the web site TrumpRX. And that is likely to be true. However his military of lackeys on the White Home is aware of very properly what makes him joyful.

Slapping his title on every thing is Trump’s factor. And if he thought it was inappropriate (which it clearly is), he may’ve stopped it. As a substitute, the location bears his title, 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 decreasing drug costs.

From the web site:

President Trump is delivering on guarantees that “consultants” stated have been unattainable 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 worth paid within the U.S.

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

President Trump is altering that with TrumpRx.

It must be famous that Trump hasn’t really lowered drug costs. In truth, every time Trump pronounces a brand new deal that’s ostensibly about decreasing drug costs, the most important pharmaceutical corporations see their inventory costs go up. Why? It may need one thing to do with the truth that he’s not really 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 means 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 Stunning Invoice,” an increasing number of Individuals will likely be paying larger 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 top of Medicare and Medicaid, Mehmet Oz, together with the well being secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has beforehand stated that you just shouldn’t belief consultants. Kennedy additionally stated this week {that a} child grows in a girl’s placenta, the type of ignorance that may, once more, not really feel so normalized in a unique political period.

However we reside within the Trump period. And solely time will inform whether or not TrumpRx really does some good on this planet. We’re not going to carry our breath. The web site explains that “TrumpRx doesn’t promote drugs. As a substitute, it connects sufferers instantly with one of the best costs, rising transparency and chopping out expensive third-party markups.”

We nonetheless don’t understand how all of that is going to function. However we do know that, in keeping 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.