"..best dimension yet": White House posts Rick and Morty AI slop amid raging Iran war, soaring prices

President Donald Trump has no qualms about leveraging artificial intelligence to make his point, and the White House's latest post on X is proof of that. The account shared an AI-generated video styled after the opening credits of Rick and Morty, the popular animated series. The video, posted Sunday, opens in outer space, where a red "Make America Great Again" cap floats alongside a bottle of Diet Coke—a nod to Trump's well-known affinity for the drink, for which he's had a button installed in the Oval Office.

The account, which has nearly five million followers, captioned the post: "Hop in... best dimension yet." It's unclear what purpose the video serves coming from an official government account, with many questioning whether sh*tposting is the best use of it. Replies were swift, with users calling it a distraction from Trump's own struggles, including the ongoing Iran war and the administration's failure in releasing files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

One of them, former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene—once a Trump ally—wrote: "People can't afford gas, groceries, rent, and healthcare, and this is the weird embarrassing crap the official White House account is putting out." Political commentator and influencer Harry Sisson stated: "wtf… we just want health care and not whatever the hell this is," and pointed out that Trump was posting erratically on Truth Social that same day, sharing more than 40 AI-generated posts in less than 12 hours.

The 36-second video moves through a series of bizarre, cartoonish visuals from space, including planets and luminous galaxies. This is followed by a scene set in what looks like the White House colonnade, where cartoon renditions of Trump and Vice President JD Vance frolic before the video cuts to a Tom Homan-like figure dressed as a Border Patrol agent arresting a red-eyed alien beside a border wall—highlighting the administration's deportation drive against so-called "illegal aliens."

Another surreal moment features a robot version of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who appears dazed before removing a face mask to reveal a mechanical framework beneath. The climax involves an alien attack, with giant winged monsters chasing a flying saucer carrying caricatures of Trump and Vance. It ends with a neon-style "MAGA" logo crackling with electricity, followed by a White House logo with President Donald J. Trump written underneath.

One apparent reference point: the post arrived the same day Rick and Morty's creators announced a new spin-off centered on a character called President Curtis. Dan Harmon, one of the series' creators, said the character draws on real-life presidents, including both Trump and former President Barack Obama. "The conversations...were inevitable," Harmon told The Hollywood Reporter, adding that Curtis' naïveté overlapped with Trump, who saw himself as an "outsider", considered the job simple, and did not care about the "bureaucracy of it".