“Why are we here?” Dilley asked, repeating a question from a passerby as he and one of his content developers enjoyed their cigars.
“Two reasons,” he said. “One is to support our president; the other is to destroy Ron DeSantis, forever.”
Dilley had flown in from Georgia to be on hand for caucus night. His content maker, who politely declined to give his name since most meme-makers post anonymously, had traveled even farther, having flown in from Los Angeles.
“You know the ‘God made Trump’ meme? Our team made that,” Dilley said proudly. “Have you seen memes of DeSantis picking his nose? Well, we made those too.”
“The New York Times recently called us ‘Trump’s online war machine,’” the content designer said.
“Yeah,” Dilley said. “That’s how they branded us. Now everybody is calling us that.”
Critics of the Dilley Meme Team’s two dozen members paint them as villains who traffic freely in misinformation, exaggeration, deepfakes and unleashed artificial intelligence.
