The Presidential Voice Generator

There’s a particular comedy to the idea that you could sit down, spend thirty seconds typing, and produce something indistinguishable from an actual statement by the sitting president of the United States. Not because you’re a skilled satirist, but because the bar is genuinely that low.

FakeTrumpTweet.com was a site where you could generate fake Trump tweets and share them. The interface was simple: write whatever you wanted, apply the aesthetic—caps, exclamation points, petty insults, random capitalizations—and the thing would spit back something that looked like it came directly from the man himself. Which, given that the man himself was producing content like "Covfefe" and live-tweeting cable news at 3am, was less a joke than a documentary exercise.

Someone once generated a tweet where Trump allegedly went after this journal: Just boobs and garbage and creepy shit about American sweetheart @SelenaGomez. Sad! I’LL SUE YOU ASAP!! Honestly, if the real Trump had written that, I’d have framed it. Being personally threatened by a man who runs the country on petty grievances and ESPN-level score-settling would have been a kind of honor. But it was fake, and the joke was that it wasn’t obviously fake, and that’s the whole problem compressed into three lines of text.