President Donald Trump’s recent attempt to invoke Apocalypse Now—which he rebranded as “Chipocalypse”—to mock Vice President Kamala Harris is not only tone-deaf, it is grotesque when placed against the backdrop of real apocalyptic suffering. While Trump uses Hollywood metaphors for political theater, millions of Palestinians are living through an actual apocalypse: the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen rightly pointed out the absurdity of Trump’s rhetoric while reminding us that the devastation in Gaza is not fiction, but a brutal reality. Entire families have been wiped out, children starved and buried under rubble, and hospitals reduced to graveyards. The use of “apocalypse” as a punchline in U.S. politics trivializes the very real destruction inflicted with American-made weapons and taxpayer funding.Our political leaders and media should not allow genocide to be a backdrop for campaign jokes or partisan gamesmanship. Trump’s rhetoric is dangerous not only for its mockery of human suffering but also for its distraction from urgent moral responsibility. The real “apocalypse” is in Gaza, and it is time Americans confront that truth.
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