“We used to ask who controls the narrative. Now we ask who controls the image generator.”
Politics, Memes, and the New Attention Economy
Whether people loved the post or hated it, one thing became obvious:
Everyone talked about it.
And in today’s online world, attention behaves like currency.
A traditional policy statement might survive one news cycle.
A strange AI-generated political meme?
That can dominate conversations for days.
Trump has long understood how to pull attention toward himself, whether through speeches, television appearances, dramatic announcements, or social media activity.
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