{"id":74979,"date":"2025-10-12T02:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74979\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T02:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T02:30:16","slug":"trumprx-is-a-narcissistic-ai-generated-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/74979\/","title":{"rendered":"TrumpRx Is a Narcissistic, AI-Generated Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, the convicted felon and current President of the United States, officially launched a new government website dubbed TrumpRx during a press conference at the White House on Friday. It\u2019s very Trumpy. And we mean that in the worst way possible.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t actually do anything yet on the website, which is hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/trumprx.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TrumpRx.gov<\/a>, but the photos don\u2019t give us a lot of faith that this is going to be a reliable place to serve America\u2019s healthcare needs.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s wrong with the images on TrumpRx? For starters, the first photo you see is of Trump himself, something that may not be a huge surprise, given the way this president has put his name and face on everything. After all, this is the guy who recently launched a TV ad on Newsmax for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/trump-watches-ads-merchandise-newsmax-b2842849.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Watches<\/a>, which continues his tradition of profiting from the presidency in direct violation of U.S. law.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows Trump seated in the Oval Office of the White House, where he\u2019s sporting that signature dipshit-tough-guy face he\u2019s been practicing since the 1980s. It\u2019s not surprising to see his face, but it\u2019s still gross. And it would\u2019ve been pretty galling if President Barack Obama had done something similar under his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>When healthcare.gov was <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100708132457\/http:\/\/www.healthcare.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched in 2010<\/a>, Obama\u2019s photo was nowhere to be seen on that homepage. Obamacare, the unofficial name for the Affordable Care Act, was actually coined by Republicans who opposed the law.<\/p>\n<p>But the lone photo on TrumpRx that doesn\u2019t depict Trump is also disturbing in its own way. The image looks like it was generated by artificial intelligence, a ridiculous and unnecessary choice when you can get a cheap stock photo on any number of websites. It\u2019s also just a disturbingly alien-like image if you take a closer look.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000671368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AI-image-trumprx.jpeg\" alt=\"An AI-generated image that appears on the TrumpRX website as it appears on Oct. 10, 2025.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1079\"  \/>An AI-generated image that appears on the TrumpRX website as it appears on Oct. 10, 2025. Image: TrumpRX.gov <\/p>\n<p>The original image may seem normal enough at first glance, but you can just feel it\u2019s off. Zooming in on the hands reveals it really is one of those bizarre AI images, creating distorted hands with contorted fingers.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000671365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-nightmare-1.jpg\" alt=\"An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025. Screenshot: TrumpRX.gov <\/p>\n<p>AI still often has trouble generating hands, as you can see in the image above. But the legs also give a weird vibe, with the woman\u2019s left calf looking abnormally short, and dropping off into a weird-looking heel and foot.<\/p>\n<p>The woman also appears to be holding hands with one of the children in a mess of fingers that seems physically impossible. That child\u2019s foot doesn\u2019t look typical either, instead sporting maybe six toes or perhaps getting mangled in some industrial accident. You can create your own backstory, but whatever happened there must\u2019ve been painful for our imaginary AI friend.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000671378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-nightmare-2.jpg\" alt=\"An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025. Image: TrumpRX.gov <\/p>\n<p>There also appears to be some kind of deformity in the leg of the child at the very front, to say nothing of all the holes in the sand, which look much more like AI-generated circles on an alien planet than the kind of footprints that are typically made by humans.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2000671384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/trump-nightmare-3.jpg\" alt=\"An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>An AI-generated image at the TrumpRX website during its launch on Oct. 10, 2025. Image: TrumpRX.gov <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also the American flag at the top of the hill, which doesn\u2019t appear to have any stars. Maybe it\u2019s a signal that Trump intends to get rid of federalism, abolishing state governance as he invades states with the National Guard like it\u2019s foreign territory.<\/p>\n<p>The TrumpRx website was first launched on Friday and initially contained text that read: \u201cTune in to the Oval Office @5PM EST,\u201d according to the Internet Archive\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20251010204335\/https:\/\/trumprx.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wayback Machine<\/a>. But it got a new look when Trump started his press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The site is credited to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ndstudio.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Design Studio<\/a>, launched by Trump through an executive order in August, and says that TrumpRx will be functional in January 2026. And the National Design Studio also praises the president in really creepy ways, as you can see from the opening line at that initiative\u2019s website:<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the biggest brand in the world? If you said Trump, you\u2019re not wrong. But what\u2019s the foundation of that brand? One that\u2019s more globally recognized than practically anything else. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the nation\u2026where he was born. It\u2019s the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>Everything Trump, all the time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really weird how that became the new normal in a country that\u2019s ostensibly a liberal democracy. But just about everything is weird now, thanks to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The president insisted during his press conference, which was livestreamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/XOtOCzut9pM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>, that it wasn\u2019t his idea to call the website TrumpRX. And that might be true. But his army of lackeys at the White House knows very well what makes him happy.<\/p>\n<p>Slapping his name on everything is Trump\u2019s thing. And if he thought it was inappropriate (which it obviously is), he could\u2019ve stopped it. Instead, the site bears his name, and his face is the first thing you see. And the text on the one-page site includes snarky claims about him saving the day by supposedly lowering drug prices.<\/p>\n<p>From the website:<\/p>\n<p>President Trump is delivering on promises that \u201cexperts\u201d said were impossible by taking bold action to lower prescription drug costs for American families\u2014without sacrificing innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have unfairly shouldered the cost of drug development for decades, only to see those same medications sold abroad for a fraction of the price paid in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>This broken system hasn\u2019t just been unfair\u2014it\u2019s driven up costs and hurt the most vulnerable among us.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump is changing that with TrumpRx.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Trump hasn\u2019t actually lowered drug prices. In fact, whenever Trump announces a new deal that\u2019s ostensibly about lowering drug prices, the major pharmaceutical companies see their stock prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/articles\/trump-drug-stocks-pfizer-6a8aa31f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go up<\/a>. Why? It might have something to do with the fact that he\u2019s not actually going to bite into their margins, and any decline in prices will only benefit a small number of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans pay for medications through insurance, and the deals Trump has announced with companies like Pfizer largely target cash-paying customers. And while that\u2019s great for people without insurance, most Americans are unlikely to see their costs go down. And with Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cBig Beautiful Bill,\u201d more and more Americans will be paying higher premiums next year. Saving a couple of bucks on a prescription is unlikely to offset those enormous costs.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s press conference on Friday had the usual suspects, including the head of Medicare and Medicaid, Mehmet Oz, along with the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has previously said that you shouldn\u2019t trust experts. Kennedy also said this week that a baby grows in a woman\u2019s placenta, the kind of ignorance that would, again, not feel so normalized in a different political era.<\/p>\n<p>But we live in the Trump era. And only time will tell whether TrumpRx actually does some good in the world. We\u2019re not going to hold our breath. The website explains that \u201cTrumpRx doesn\u2019t sell medications. Instead, it connects patients directly with the best prices, increasing transparency and cutting out costly third-party markups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We still don\u2019t know how all of this is going to operate. But we do know that, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/pharma\/trumprx-drug-companies-blinkrx-2b6e1761\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal,<\/a> the president\u2019s son, Donald Trump Jr., is on the board of a company called BlinkRx that stands to benefit from the TrumpRx site. Don Jr. is hosting a \u201cFuture of Pharmaceuticals\u201d summit in December, and drug company representatives are reportedly nervous because they think they\u2019ll be forced to work with a company with close ties to the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump, the convicted felon and current President of the United States, officially launched a new government website&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,969,397,396,61,60,80,49515],"class_list":{"0":"post-74979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-trumprx"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}