Halloween wasn't until October 31st, but that didn't stop. President Trump Like a battery-powered candle from Jack O'Lantern, from dropping music videos generated by TaylorMade AI for the creepy season. In the 67-second clip on Truth Social, he cast his own budget director Russell Vaut as Grimm Reaper as cape, giveaway and production.
In the clip, the Grim Reaper glides through a shadowy corridor past the portrait of “wielding pens, funds, brains.” Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer It's like a tour of the ghost house of Congress complaints. This is not a satire. This is the official message from the White House, which is currently shut down. Please see below:
Why does the outfit change? The administration is preparing a mass federal layoff that has been linked to funding lapses “probably thousands,” spokesman Caroline Leavitt says Trump met Vought to decide which “Democrat institutions” to cut and whether those cuts would stick. The video arrives as policy push branding featuring cancellations of programs surrounded by layoffs, freeze spending, and now a bureaucratic cleanup with iconography of Halloween Stores.
Vought doesn't just play Reaper on screen, on his side. He is swinging his scythe in the real world. During the closure, the OMB has frozen billions of dollars, including $2.1 billion for the Chicago Transit, including a massive suspension on the New York Project, and the administration has banned “racial-based contracts.” Blue City says it's a political reward. The White House calls it compliance and accountability. In any case, trains are the collateral for meme war. Please see below:
If you're feeling the déjà vu from the cultural battles of campaign season, you're not wrong. Vought also touted $800 million cancellations in interstate climate-related funds that supported Democrats in 2024, and now folded into a shutdown story of reducing “waste” and “wake up.” The legal battle over what can actually be frozen is already humming into the background.
Meanwhile, the Senate has tees another vote on a duel stopgap, but even optimists believe the light-out stretch could last at least a week. Yes: The government is partially shut down, the Grim Reaper is in fashion, and thousands of real jobs may stick to stories written by AI. America, you have a crowd.
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