Hal Brown's Substack (fomerly Hal Brown's Blog): I was going to write about the MAGA uproar and ICE threats about Bad Bunny and the Superbowl, but then I saw Melania Trump's AI post on X, By Hal M. Brown

October 2, 2025

I was going to write about the MAGA uproar and ICE threats about Bad Bunny and the Superbowl, but then I saw Melania Trump's AI post on X, By Hal M. Brown

I looked at HUFFPOST this morning and saw the articles above about Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl.

I decided that I’d take a break from writing about Trump’s “take as few prisioners as possible” blitzkrieg, or his unhingedness, and address how ridiculous their bothering with the culture war is. I mean, I never heard of Bad Bunny and I was curious enough to find some YouTubes of him. I am sure I am not alone.

Here’s his YouTube channel:

Then, also looking at HUFFPOST I saw this:

This prompted me to go to Perchance AI and ask for images of Melania Trump crying and then I used them in this reply to her post on X.

I even posted it as a comment to the HUFFPOST article:

I also used AI to make the top illustration for this Substack.

I admit that I’d like it if one of my posts on X or Bluesky was picked up and amplified on one or another the websites which features social media posts in one of their articles. Both HUFFPOST and RawStory do this. Not that I am starving for recognition beyond my miniscule pressence on Substack (insert humility emoji)…

Getting serious, I wondered whether Project 2025 addresed woke and the culture war so I asked AI. This is the answer I got:

Yes, Project 2025 includes proposals that address issues related to the culture war, emphasizing a conservative agenda that opposes “woke” policies. It advocates for a broader implementation of conservative values across various sectors of government, reflecting a focus on cultural issues.

I found this in this long article about Project 2025:

In calling for a return to the “biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family” (page 481), an end to all forms of “woke propaganda” (page 9) and the jailing of pornographers (page 5), Project 2025 is clear in its intention to make the federal government a combatant in the culture war.

I also found this is in “Voters Are Tired of the “War on Woke” from June 2024.

Of course Biden dropped out, Kamala ran and was, if anything, even more woke than him, and she lost. Between June of 2024 Trump added anti-trans to his campaign train of grievances and this may actually have swayed a few votes. He created some delusional demon called DEI. He went anti-woke bigly.

He’s president/dictator, possibly for the rest of his life, so the question remains as to why he and his minions are bothering with the woke war.

I will venture an answer. I think it is for a similar reason as mine for using AI to make the images of Melania. I think it is because it is fun to be malicious at times. For me it is a way to express my sense of helplessness through mockery. For them I think it is because they get pleasure out of kicking those they feel are already down.