It is maddening truly maddening that in a moment when U.S. war-mongering is inching into Caribbean waters, when global powers are shifting pieces on the geopolitical chessboard, we are once again seduced by distraction. The shadow of Trump–Epstein, the moral rot that trails behind it, the devolving state of public consciousness all of it becomes entertainment instead of inquiry.
So when an AI-enhanced video implying a sexual gesture between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton slid through the feeds and everyone swallowed it as truth, it wasn’t the video that disturbed me. It was what it revealed about us.
And so I did what the moment demanded:
I stopped.
I thought.
I researched.
I verified.
And then I spoke up.
Because if we let AI distort the truth without resistance, we become complicit in our own deception.
The Seduction of a Manufactured Lie
The viral clip wasn’t clever, insightful, or meaningful it was engineered for emotional manipulation. Designed to feed the subconscious. Created to ride the wave of political exhaustion and public cynicism.
AI knows exactly what we want to see, and even more importantly, what will trigger us.
It amplifies our biases.
It animates our projections.
It offers us a more entertaining lie in place of a complicated truth.
