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We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered
Fred Onyango

White House covertly running mission to damage control Donald Trump endless – and increasingly catastrophic – boo boos

During the raid in Venezuela, the White House released photographs of the Donald Trump administration in the war room. Some people were taken aback when they noticed that one of the photos featured an almost 100-inch screen tracking reactions on X. It later emerged that the administration had been running bot farms from within the White House, defending the racist Barack Obama video alongside a range of other MAGA-related controversies.

“The most obvious tell that Trump’s Truth Social post wasn’t intentional is that he would’ve posted the entire thing if he had seen it. It’s a masterpiece,” wrote an account named Johnny Maga in reference to Obama being depicted as apes. The account, conveniently, used a cartoon avatar and revealed no personal details — no discussion of family, hobbies, or interests. From top to bottom, much like the platform’s owner Elon Musk himself, it existed solely to push rhetoric defending Trump’s policies.

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