Donald Trump, convicted felon and current president of the United States, officially launched a new government website called TrumpRx during a White House press conference on Friday. This is very misleading. And we mean it in the worst possible way.
You can’t do anything yet on the website, hosted at TrumpRx.gov, but the photos don’t really give us confidence that it will be a reliable place to meet America’s health needs.
What’s wrong with images on TrumpRx? For starters, the first photo you see is of Trump himself, which is perhaps not a big surprise, given how this president has put his name and face on everything. After all, this is the man who recently launched a TV ad on Newsmax for Trump Watches, which continues his tradition of profiting from the presidency in direct violation of US law.
The photo shows Trump sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, where he’s sporting that tough-guy asshole face he’s been sporting since the 1980s. It’s not surprising to see his face, but it’s still disgusting. And it would have been rather infuriating if President Barack Obama had done something similar during his presidency.
When Healthcare.gov launched in 2010, Obama’s photo was nowhere to be seen on that homepage. Obamacare, the unofficial name for the Affordable Care Act, was actually invented by Republicans opposed to the law.
But the only photo on TrumpRx that doesn’t The portrayal of Trump is also disturbing in its own way. The image appears to have been generated by artificial intelligence, a ridiculous and unnecessary choice when you can get a photo cheap on any number of websites. It’s also just a strangely alien image if you look closely.
The original image may look quite normal at first glance, but you may just feel that it is fake. Zooming in on the hands reveals that it’s actually one of those weird AI images, creating distorted hands with contorted fingers.
The AI still often struggles to generate hands, as you can see in the image above. But the legs also give an odd vibe, with the woman’s left calf appearing unnaturally short and drooping into a strange heel and toe.
The woman also appears to be holding the hand of one of the children in a mess of fingers that seems physically impossible. This child’s foot also doesn’t look typical, instead sporting six toes or perhaps mutilated in an industrial accident. You can create your own story, but whatever happened, it must have been painful for our imaginary AI friend.
There also appears to be some kind of deformation in the child’s leg at the very front, not to mention all the holes in the sand, which look much more like AI-generated circles on an alien planet than the type of footprints typically left by humans.
There is also the American flag at the top of the hill, which doesn’t appear to have any stars. Perhaps this is a sign that Trump intends to get rid of federalism, abolishing state governance, as he invades states with the National Guard as if they were foreign territory.
The TrumpRx website first launched Friday and initially contained text that read, “Log in to the Oval Office at 5 p.m. EST,” according to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. But it took on a new face when Trump began his press conference Friday.
The site is credited to the National Design Studio, launched by Trump through an executive order in August, and says TrumpRx will be up and running in January 2026. And the National Design Studio also praises the president in some truly chilling ways, as you can see in the opening line of that initiative’s website:
What is this THE the biggest brand In THE world? If You said Asset, You are not fake. But what is this THE foundation of that brand? A It is more globally recognized that practically Nothing other.
It is THE nation… where he was born. It is THE United States of America.
All Trump, all the time.
It’s really strange how this has become the new norm in a country that is ostensibly a liberal democracy. But pretty much everything is weird now, thanks to Trump.
The president insisted during his press conference, broadcast live on YouTube, that it was not his idea to call the site TrumpRX. And that might be true. But his army of lackeys in the White House know very well what makes him happy.
Putting his name on everything is Trump’s thing. And if he thought it was inappropriate (which it obviously did), he could have stopped it. Instead, the site is named after him and his face is the first thing you see. And text on the one-page site includes sarcastic claims that he saved the day by allegedly lowering drug prices.
From the website:
President Trump is delivering on promises that “experts” said were impossible by taking bold steps to lower the cost of prescription drugs for American families, without sacrificing innovation.
Americans have unfairly borne the cost of drug development for decades, only to see those same drugs sold abroad for a fraction of the price paid in the United States.
This broken system is not only unfair: it has driven up costs and harmed the most vulnerable among us.
President Trump is changing that with TrumpRx.
It’s worth noting that Trump hasn’t actually lowered drug prices. In fact, every time Trump announces a new deal that ostensibly aims to lower drug prices, big pharmaceutical companies see their stock prices rise. For what? This might have something to do with the fact that it won’t actually eat into their margins, and that any drop in prices will only benefit a small number of Americans.
Most Americans pay for their medications through insurance, and Trump’s announced deals with companies like Pfizer largely target cash-paying customers. And while that’s a good thing for people without insurance, it’s unlikely that most Americans will see their costs go down. And with Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” more Americans will pay higher premiums next year. Saving a few dollars on a prescription is unlikely to offset these enormous costs.
Trump’s news conference Friday had the usual suspects, including Medicare and Medicaid chief Mehmet Oz, as well as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has previously said experts should not be trusted. Kennedy also said this week that a baby grows in a woman’s placenta, the kind of ignorance that, again, wouldn’t seem as normalized in another political era.
But we live in the Trump era. And only time will tell if TrumpRx is actually doing any good in the world. We’re not going to hold our breath. The website explains that “TrumpRx does not sell drugs. Instead, it connects patients directly to the best prices, increasing transparency and eliminating costly third-party markups.”
We still don’t know how this will all work. But we do know that, according to the Wall Street Journal, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., sits on the board of a company called BlinkRx that stands to benefit from the TrumpRx site. Don Jr. is hosting a summit on “The Future of Pharmaceuticals” in December, and drug company representatives are reportedly nervous because they believe they will be forced to work with a company with close ties to the president’s son.
