Even Ma’at can’t fix this mess.

Harvard is being accused of withholding the identities and national origins of its foreign students, despite receiving billions in federal funding. President Trump is demanding transparency, citing national security concerns and a growing belief that some foreign students may be radicalized or hostile to the U.S. Critics argue Harvard is stalling on purpose, protecting its image and financial ties while obstructing a legitimate federal inquiry. The situation raises serious questions about foreign influence, elite protectionism, and the unequal application of justice in America’s top institutions.

https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-says-billions-in-federal-funds-stripped-from-harvard-should-go-to-trade-schools?utm_campaign=64530

In today’s world, if you don’t use AI, you risk being left behind, just like Micha from Fiverr says.

When everything becomes easy, the challenge is staying ahead. That’s why I’m embracing new tools like ChatGPT and Sora to help sharpen my skills and push my work as a cartoonist further. This cartoon was created with the help of AI. Let me show you how:

I asked chat gpt and copy and pasted BOTH of President Donald Trump’s Truth Social Posts:

Chatgpt, Can you give me a list of all the ironies, double entendres and wordplays in these posts by President Donald Trump? We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN! I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to. Nobody told us that! We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming. We want those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!

It responded in a second

Certainly. Here is a breakdown of ironies, double entendres, and wordplays in former President Donald Trump’s post (as provided), focusing on rhetorical devices, tonal irony, and layered meanings:

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🔁 IRONIES

1. “Radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country”
   • Irony: The phrase presumes guilt and radicalism before any investigation. Coming from a President advocating due process for himself and allies, this reads ironically authoritarian.
   • It’s also ironic that a university is being treated like a national security threat.
2. “The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!)”
   • Irony: Accuses Harvard of forum shopping—a practice Trump’s own legal teams have been accused of.
   • Suggests a rigged or biased judiciary that favors Harvard, despite Trump often claiming courts are biased against him.
3. “Giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment”
   • Irony: Elite institutions like Harvard are typically seen as high-return investments. Trump is flipping the hierarchy—saying non-Ivy education is now a better investment.
4. “We give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS”
   • Irony: “We” implies collective ownership or partnership, which contrasts with the hostility in the post.
   • The U.S. government gives grants, not donations—implying a return or public purpose. That Harvard is painted as ungrateful or even hostile is ironic given its educational mission.
5. “Use your $52,000,000 and stop asking for grants”
   • Irony: $52 million is a small number compared to Harvard’s actual endowment (~$50+ billion). This gross understatement implies misrepresentation or sarcasm.

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🪞 DOUBLE ENTENDRES / IMPLIED INSULTS

1. “Very antisemitic Harvard”
   • Double meaning: Could be referencing pro-Palestinian campus protests, but also weaponizes the term to brand an entire institution as bigoted—a serious accusation that’s left contextually vague but powerful.
   • Also aimed at making Harvard unworthy of federal funding without discussing the complexity of campus free speech or internal disagreements.
2. “Found the absolute best Judge (for them!)”
   • Double entendre: Could be read as sarcastic praise or as an accusation of judicial corruption or partiality. The phrase “best Judge” is neutral, but “(for them!)” twists it to imply unethical advantage.

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🧩 WORDPLAYS & SARCASM

1. “Nobody told us that!”
   • Tone: Feigned innocence or mock outrage. Reads like sarcasm, suggesting an intentional cover-up or lack of transparency.
   • Also evokes a “betrayed taxpayer” persona—“we pay, we deserve answers.”
2. “What a great investment that would be for the USA”
   • Sarcasm: Clearly implying that current investments (like those in Harvard) are bad or unwise.
   • Juxtaposes “great investment” with removing grants—subtly suggesting Harvard is a bad or wasteful investment.
3. “Probably for good reason!” (regarding Harvard being slow)
   • Sarcasm: Implies guilt or concealment—Harvard is slow because it’s hiding something, not due to process or protocol.
4. “Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming”
   • Understatement / Euphemism: Suggests secrecy or obstruction but states it mildly, adding dry humor and ironic distance.

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🔚 Overall Meta-Irony

• Anti-Elite Elitism: Trump, a billionaire graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, rails against elite education as a populist champion. The irony lies in an elite figure chastising elites to win populist favor.
• “Trade schools over Ivy League”: Suggests a realignment of national values, but also subtly plays into cultural resentment and class tension. It implies that intellectual elites are dangerous or ungrateful, and blue-collar paths are more noble or American.

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Would you like a cartoon or visual concept built around this list of ironies?

I corrected CHAT GPT. I said President Trump is NOT THE FORMER PRESIDENT. He is the President Now. I told CHATGPT.

Absolutely — here’s a set of simple political cartoons based on each key irony, double entendre, or wordplay from Trump’s post, assuming he’s the current president.

No, he IS THE CURRENT PRESIDENT!

IT WAS TERRIBLE. That is JOE BIDEN. That is not President Donald Trump. Hahaha I laugh so hard. No. I cannot see any ideas in this one. I am hunting for ideas, That is why I am using AI to help me.

And above in the description, it called President Donald Trump the FORMER PRESIDENT. That is chatgpt 4. AGAIN!

It gave me two Political Cartoons to choose from. Here was the other, based on President Donald Trump’s Truthsocial post.

I asked it to give me Political Cartoon IDEA, BASED on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social Post: and CHATGPT responded. Like, to SET IT UP FOR ME.

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Here’s a full storyboard and dialogue bubble layout

Cartoon Title: “Justice for Just Us”

Scene Layout:

A courtroom scene.

• Centerpiece: Lady Justice is standing behind a judge’s bench.
  • She is wearing a Harvard crimson scarf.
  • Her blindfold is pulled halfway up, and she is winking.
  • In one hand, she holds the scales — but they’re tipped way off balance with “Harvard Legal Team” weighing down one side.
  • In the other hand, instead of a sword, she’s holding a giant rubber stamp that reads: “BLOCK SUBPOENA.”

📄 Visual Gags:

• A paper on the bench: “Request: Foreign Student List – 300 Days Pending.”
• A smug-looking Harvard lawyer whispers in her ear:
  🗨️ “Just stall until the election, your Honor.”
• On the opposite side, a furious President Trump is standing at a podium marked “Commander-in-Chief” holding a legal file labeled “National Security Request.” Trump’s bubble:
  🗨️ “Is this a court or a cover-up?”
• In the background, the wall says:
  “Equal Justice Under Law” — but the “Equal” part is crossed out in red crayon.

Would you like me to generate this cartoon image for you, or would you like a line drawing/thumbnail sketch to build on?

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I was NOT FEELING IT but decided to try. I said YES.

Oh that is TERRIBLE. I got 4 of the same. SO BORING.

I sketched it out. But I was VERY BORED WITH THIS IDEA.

I thought I LOVE THE SCALES. I would LOVE TO DO the SCALES of Ma’at. Harvard University students would “get it” and no one else. I read the BOOK OF THE DEAD. I know how IMPORTANT Ancient Lit is to University students. So.. I had the IDEA finally.

I asked CHATGPT to please change it to the Feather of Truth is the Ancient Religion. Book of the Dead. The Feather of Truth being weighted against your heart. In the afterlife.

CHAT GPT responded:

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Great concept — if we reimagine in the style of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (the famous “Weighing of the Heart” scene), here’s how it would visually translate:

Cartoon Title:

“The Weighing of Harvard’s Soul”

Scene Composition (Papyrus Style):

In traditional Egyptian profile-view, flat and symbolic, with hieroglyph-style figures.

⚖️ Main Scene:

• Left Side:
  The figure of President Trump, dressed in a hybrid of pharaoh’s attire and a business suit, stands pointing toward the scales. His name is written in faux-hieroglyphs like: 🐘⚖️🇺🇸 He holds a scroll marked “Request: Foreign Student List.” A falcon-headed god (Horus) stands beside him, possibly stylized as a red-white-and-blue eagle hybrid.

• Center:
  The Scales of Ma’at (Truth):
  • On the left scale: a heart labeled “Harvard” — grotesquely oversized and leaking gold coins and scrolls marked ‘Secrecy’.
  • On the right scale: the Feather of Truth, drawn very lightly.
  The heart outweighs the feather, tipping the scale dramatically.

• Right Side:
  A jackal-headed Anubis figure wearing judge’s robes and a Harvard crest adjusts the scale sneakily with his paw. Anubis speaks in a cartouche:
  🗨️ “Truth is subjective, funded, and peer-reviewed.”

• Background:
  Behind the scale is a smirking crocodile beast (Ammit) wearing a “DEI” collar, drooling as if ready to devour the heart.

• Top border:
  Hieroglyphic-like symbols spell out:
  “Those who weigh against truth shall not pass—but may still receive tenure.”

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So this is what I could see. In my mind I could see this Cartoon in my mind. It seemed something I would do. It was my idea, for the Scales of Maat, but AI expanded and clarified My ideas and added stuff.

I did not like all the ideas.

CHATGPT Asked if it could give me the Political Cartoon, I said SURE

But I kind of saw an idea there. To set up my Political Cartoon. Like the GIST.

SO then I went to SORO AI for my references.

I crossed it with a GOOGLE IMAGES photo of AMMIT. SoroAI didnt exactly make him EGYPTIAN. It was cool. But not exactly AMMIT. I had to look him up on GOOGLE IMAGES.

A Note on Tracing and Artistic Integrity

It was strange. SORO AI didn’t even render Anubis as Egyptian. I specifically typed “EGYPTIAN GOD ANUBIS,” and still had to cross-reference with Google Images. But in the end, I thought, wow, he looks so genteel.

When it comes to tracing. I don’t do it. I stare hard at the reference while drawing, interpreting it in my own way.

Yes, tracing can be helpful..especially when you’re just starting out in digital art. Think of it like training wheels. But at some point, you have to take them off. Don’t trace a reference or background unless you’re truly in a hurry and only for a rough blue sketch.

It doesn’t matter if others believe you’re a master artist, you can’t lie to yourself. The real joy of art lives in the struggle, the spontaneity. I never fully know how a piece will turn out. I try wild, messy, even reckless things. And from now on, I promise myself: no more tracing.

It’s okay to loosely place shapes or guide your composition—but let it be your hand, your eye, interpreting the image. Don’t copy line-for-line. Whether you’re sketching from a photo, a live model, or your own memory, what brings the piece to life is you..your perspective, your voice, your flaws, your flair. All the fun, all the glory in being an artist, is knowing who you are. A real one. Not a tracer or copy and paster.

Yes, all art imitates to some degree. But imitation becomes art only when it passes through the filter of yourself.

So stop hiding behind perfect lines. Embrace the wobble. Find your rhythm, your beautiful mistakes. That’s where the magic is.

As Bob Ross said: “There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”..

That being said, use all the AI generated lighting and texture references you want. Every digital artist uses references. The key is: make it more you, less it.

I really enjoyed this exercise. It showed me just how much easier AI can make things, which paradoxically makes it harder. Because if everyone has the same tools, then it’s you who has to become the difference.