The Lincoln Project's AI Video is Stupid
Latest video shows just how far this anti-Trump group has lost the script
On Friday, The Lincoln Project released this latest video, below. An AI-generated video of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump.
Look, I’m not entirely sure who this video is supposed to impress. People who hate Donald Trump already will mostly eat it up. People who love Donald Trump will not be moved by it and accuse the Lincoln Project of practically working for the Democrats. And people who are in the middle between voting Trump and not are not going to be moved by an AI-generated video putting words into the mouth of a dead man.
The entire video is kinda stupid and a waste of money, other than to generate a profit for the Lincoln Project’s vendors.
And all of that goes back to the larger point of how the Lincoln Project lost the plot.
When it started, the Lincoln Project was ostensibly a collection of Never Trump Republicans and ex-Republicans who wanted to make sure that Donald Trump did not get re-elected.
But the team there kinda got off the script in a hurry. The Project was never really about defeating Donald Trump. It was an effort to make videos go viral in the viral era of politics.
If I asked you to name one Lincoln Project product that you remember from the 2020 election, you couldn’t name one. Nobody else could either.
Even this ad above serves no purpose other than as a retort to Donald Trump and his world of accusing the Lincoln Project of using AI. So they used AI. To make Trump’s dad talk. Considering that 1) Fred Trump has been dead for 30 years and 2) Fred Trump was never involved in Trump’s politics, this violates one of my golden rules of politics; family members are civilians and off-limits if they are not involved in the game.
The problem with the Lincoln Project is because they have become just like Trump. Instead of being for something, they are merely on a vendetta ride against Trump. While that may be good for their checking accounts, it is not helpful to the job of ending Trump’s political career and eradicating Trumpism from the conservative movement.
If The Lincoln Project wants to help, maybe they should not help if videos like this AI silliness are what they consider help.