COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.
The video is intended to reflect Trump’s plans for a Gaza Strip that has been permanently ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.
If you haven’t watched it yet you definitely should, because words can’t do justice to just how terrible it is.
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This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened. Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.
They used the most artless art medium in existence to digitally dance on the graves of mountains of dead civilians. The most powerful government on earth celebrated the idea of Trump and Netanyahu presiding over orgiastic parties for the obscenely wealthy on a land that has been purged of its indigenous inhabitants following a year and a half of brutal slaughter.
Twerking to shitty AI-generated techno music surrounded by golden Trump statues and hundred dollar bills, because you are so happy that you finally found a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.
President Trump’s AI vision for Gaza – “Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal.”
It doesn’t get any more American than this, and it doesn’t get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the Empire at its most honest. This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.
This entire civilisation is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler.
Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.
This video, in and of itself, is a sufficient argument for the entire US empire to be demolished and sold for scrap metal. https://t.co/18B1t2o2r7
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) February 26, 2025
I’ve always said that the only thing I like about Trump is that he puts an honest face on the Empire. In terms of actual policy and actions he’s not much different from any other Republican president, but he has this compulsive inclination to constantly yank off the plastic smileyface mask of the Empire and reveal the snarling blood-spattered face beneath.
This is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.
That one video, all by itself, tells you more about what the US Empire really is than every movie its PR agents in Hollywood have ever produced. This is the real America. This is the real Israel. This is the real Empire.
And this is why we must defeat them.
Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian independent journalist and poet. Her articles include The UN Torture Report On Assange Is An Indictment Of Our Entire Society. She publishes a website and Caitlin’s Newsletter. This article is republished with permission.
