White House Celebrates May 4th in a Way George Lucas Would Approve Of

Star Wars is and always has been political. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. The original trilogy is about a group of rebels who fight to stop a tyrannical government. The newest two films in the Skywalker Saga saw the return of that government brought on by a group of sniveling fascist fanboys (really wish they had made a third film). Then there are the prequels, which, maligned as they may be, are so deep into the politics of the world that there are whole scenes set in the Galactic Senate (and y’all, I think the prescience of Revenge of the Sith contributed to it crushing at the box office in a recent re-release).

Star Wars is also a series of kids’ movies. That’s straight from The Creator himself. George Lucas has never been shy about seeing the films as vehicles for kids to understand the scarier things in our world. While children may not be interested in Senate procedures and voting, some things register more easily. For instance, the rebels (good guys) look scrappy and individualized, whereas the Empire (bad guys) conform to one look based on their status. The Jedi use fun colors for their lightsabers, like blue, green, and yellow. The Sith lords use red, and that’s pretty much it.

What I’ve just described is so simple that a child could understand it. So, I think the White House knew full well what it was doing when it tweeted out a s***ty AI picture of the President on May 4th. It’s the kind of nightmare fuel reserved for the wet dreams of bootlickers who have been applauding the fall of Democracy (damn you, Lucas). The picture shows a ripped President Trump in front of an American flag framed by two Bald Eagles. He’s given an obviously fake muscular body (complete with exposed arms), and he is carrying a red lightsaber. Some people have tried to say it is orange, and those people are dumb.

You can make whatever color-grading arguments you want, but he is not holding a Jedi’s lightsaber. The man is armed with a Sith sword, and it’s safe to assume it was done on purpose. The White House Twitter account goes as far as to argue they are the Rebels; such a proclamation is instantly identifiable as horses***. They know that, and it’s not like they want to be seen as the good guys anyway. You don’t go to great lengths to soften the Nazis image only to stop at space Nazis. (I’m not embedding the image or tweet, but if you want to see it, you can look here, but having someone spit blue milk into your eyeballs would garner the same effect and be less painful.)

As cringey and insane as the picture and post are, it’s good that the White House identifies itself as it truly is, accidentally or not. The people there are using the federal government to enact horrors, and more and more people are recognizing that. You can only go so far into fascism before even those not paying attention to politics start to notice. George Lucas helped train generations of people to identify the bad guys. Hell, he has given several evil leaders red lightsabers. I’m sure he approves of the White House owning how f***ing evil they are.