{"id":2112,"date":"2026-01-14T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/inside-the-white-house-shitposting-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T23:27:00","slug":"inside-the-white-house-shitposting-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/inside-the-white-house-shitposting-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the White House shitposting machine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tScreens at the White House display AI-modified videos of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that were shared on social media by President Donald Trump. | Credit: Alex Wong\/Getty Images\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

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Last week was a grim reminder that no matter what sort of horror is being perpetrated or how many people end up dead, the Trump administration’s knee-jerk response is to shitpost through it. The White House’s response on X to abducting the head of a sovereign nation<\/a>? \u00ab\u00a0FAFO\u00a0\u00bb<\/a>. The response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in broad daylight? A Buzzfeed-style listicle<\/a> of \u00ab\u00a057 Times Sick, Unhinged Democrat \u2026<\/p>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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