In Trump’s AI-infused second term, parody has instead become a culture war salvo that goes well beyond the scope of a typical social media manager searching for a news peg or discourse entry point. AI slop posts like the White House social team’s are displays of dominance and acts of revenge. Coupled with the reach of federal social media accounts, this unscrupulous use of AI gives MAGA’s sadistic streak a new frontier. With one post, however, the White House re-poisoned that well, dragging the show back toward the reputation it had spent years escaping. The social media team continues to operate unabated, fully aware that the social media giants whose TOSs they’re violating wouldn’t dare bite the hand feeding them and that all most of those whose works have been despoiled can do—be they one of the world’s biggest music artists or an allied sovereign nation—is whimper an impotent “please don’t do that” whenever a violation occurs.