 wondering what the world had in store for them. Is this even real, I thought. Is this some kind of hoax or cheap trick in AI production? No, it felt all too real. More real than anything seen on the American political scene in a long time. This wasn't some hollow ritual, scripted speech, or paper-thin reenactment. This was as real as Caesar and Pompey, Antietam and Gettysburg, Lincoln, Kennedy, King, and Reagan.