Trump AI posts vs classical art: the grift nobody asked for

The Atlantic discovered that a sitting president is apparently posting AI-generated fantasy images of himself to his social media platform while strategically paired with Renaissance religious artwork for maximum delusion. This is what passes for a cultural moment in 2026—not the AI itself being concerning, but one man's desperate need to see himself as divine through the lens of cheap image synthesis. The whole piece reeks of journalists frantically trying to make sense of why we're living in a timeline where this requires serious analysis.