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Forty-eight hours. That's how long the flags-at-half-staff goodwill lasted before he found a way to make her death about himself. We all knew it was only a matter of time.

On Wednesday, Trump went on Glenn Beck's show and offered a suspiciously convenient memory: Dolly "wasn't political," but she "really liked" him.

On Thursday, Truth Social delivered the visual aid — an AI-generated portrait of Dolly on his arm at the White House, posted without a word of explanation, as if it were a cherished memory rather than a data center’s sloppy output.

Fans clocked it instantly. Partly because the "photo" looks like a watercolor fever dream, and partly because so many pointed out the same thing: they couldn't find a single real photograph of these two together from her 80 years on this Earth.

And here's the detail that turns tackiness into a tell.

While she was alive, this president offered her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She graciously declined. He offered again. She declined again.

The complete documented record between Dolly Parton and Donald Trump consists of two polite refusals.

So he commissioned a machine to draft the endorsement she pointedly didn’t give him in life.

Dolly spent six decades keeping herself out of every politician's pocket — a discipline so complete it became legend.

It survived every administration, every election, every pressure campaign.

Now, Trump is exploiting her passing for goodwill. Dolly would never!

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