The new sign, a study in bland minimalism, nixes both the barrel and Uncle Herschel, replacing them with a vaguely rounded and cylindrical shape that could look like a barrel if you squint really hard and cross your eyes a little. Over the past year, Trump has increasingly alienated his voters by embracing tariffs (bad for small businesses), AI (bad for workers), state-sponsored capitalism (bad for the “free market”) and the military industrial complex (bad for everybody), all while continuing foreign wars (something he promised not to do) and perpetually kicking the can down the road when it comes to the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Since Trump can’t materially deliver on any of his campaign promises (except the one about psychotically cracking down on America’s immigrant population), the White House’s only real remaining tactic is to latch onto dubious social media controversies and virtue signal to its base that, despite many broken promises, its heart is still in the right place.
Author: Lucas Ropek
Published at: 2025-08-26 22:10:04
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