Jon Stewart has a blunt reaction to Trump's AI generated Star Wars meme

Did you spot the mistake?
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Sam Haysom
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A man in a suit sits behind a talk show desk. In the top-left is an image of the President holding a lightsaber.
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Donald Trump's social media team has been playing around with AI again, this time posting an image of the president holding a lightsaber on the official White House X account to mark Star Wars Day (May the Fourth...) over the weekend.

As Jon Stewart points out in the Daily Show monologue above, though, there's a fairly key detail they overlooked.

"I know I'm not meant to get distracted, but he's not a fucking Jedi in that picture!" yells Stewart. "Do you understand? Trump is presenting himself as a Jedi, but his lightsaber is red. The only way you can have a red lightsaber is by infusing its kyber crystal with the power of your rage and hate, thereby corrupting it into a vessel for the Dark Side.

"Therefore, every one of those photos that Trump is putting out there, he's admitting he's not a Jedi but in fact a Sith Lord!"

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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