THE FUSE

The White House currently specializes in controversy-courting memes, designed to piss off as many as possible with deliberately half-assed cultural references invariably created using AI. Which is a sentence that would have been absolutely ridiculous to parse at any other point in America’s history. But the latest, a clumsy and crass reference to Destiny 2, has really rubbed people the wrong way, posted to time with the devastating news of widespread job losses at developer Bungie.