A social media jokester used AI to create the “painting” on the left, and implied on “X” that it was an eerie premonition of the Trump administration, writing “This 1721 painting by Deitz Nuützen predicted the Trump-Elon-RFK McDonalds dinner.”

How dumb and gullible would someone have to be not to instantly realize that this was a gag? If the whole thing weren’t enough, there’s the name of the artist, “Deitz Nuützen,” as in “Deez Nutz,” web slang for testicles. Never mind, though. The Axis media is so wary of anything that might enhance the image of Trump and his team that even an obvious silly joke had to be factchecked.

Newsweek, which uses one of the factchecking organizations that Meta used to use before Mark Zuckerberg came to his senses, decided that it had to prove that an 18th Century artist didn’t really have a divine inspiration that 400 years in the future Trump allies would be feasting on McDonalds meals on a jet. Its conclusion?

“Almost certainly.”

Newsweek is almost certainly staffed with with morons.

Note that the needle swung right past “satire” to “False.”

Twitchy, reflecting on the Newsweek factcheck (which appears to have been pulled after being mocked mercilessly), observes, “In journalism, there’s a principle called ‘news judgment.’ This guides journalists to only cover stories that are in the public interest. It’s safe to say that Newsweek lacks this guiding principle.” I’d put it a little differently. I conclude from this incident that panic, desperation and the lack of ethics alarms in the Axis media has caused the left’s propaganda troops to grasp at metaphorical straws for anything that can be used to discredit Trump’s Presidency or anyone who frames it in a positive context.