On Tuesday evening, the president posted an AI-generated image to Truth Social under a three-word caption: “Patton, Trump, MacArthur.” Grant governed in a frock coat; Eisenhower, who accepted the German surrender wearing five stars, spent eight years in business suits. About the ribbons: the man wearing five rows of them received four student draft deferments and a fifth for bone spurs. Truth Social/ @realDonaldTrump♦Images like this one get waved through as jokes, yet the levity holds more weight than it admits. Supporters get an identity offer, an opportunity to fuse the current leader with the last morally uncontested American war, causing loyalty to take on the feeling of patriotism.