Palestinian children reaching for the sky as dollars rain down. A solid gold statue of Donald Trump in the middle of Gaza. A Trump Tower and a string of luxury hotels, lined up facing the sea. Finally, the American president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in bathing suits, sipping cocktails on the beach. Entitled "Gaza 2025: What's next?" the video, generated by artificial intelligence, was satire according to its designers, the Californian studio EyeMix Visuals. It would have remained so if it had not been posted on February 26 by Trump himself on his Truth Social platform, causing consternation the world over.
A daydream, or rather a nightmare. If Hollywood showrunners had imagined a US president planning to take control of the war-torn Palestinian enclave and turn it into the "Riviera of the Middle East," or threatening to annex Greenland, the scenario would have been deemed implausible and outrageous. Just as no one would have imagined witnessing the February 28 exchange in the Oval Office between the 47th president of the United States and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, which Trump concluded by saying: "This is going to be great television."
Since Trump's re-election, four years after his supporters invaded the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, to protest the results of the November 2020 presidential election, the world seems to be swimming in dystopia, as if the craziest TV series were becoming reality.
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