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This weekend, millions of Americans marched against the Trump administration. March “No to Kings” was directed against the “authoritarian seizure of power” by the president.
According to the organizers, protest on October 18the third mass mobilization since Trump returned to the White House, attracted about 7 million people in all 50 states. This figure makes it the largest single-day mobilization against a US president in modern history.
The protesters were joined by Hollywood figures such as Jimmy Kimmel, Spike Lee, Robert De Niro and Glenn Close, who expressed their opposition to Trump’s presidency and rising levels of authoritarianism.
Instead of responding to peaceful opposition, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on the website Truth Social showing himself wearing a crown, flying a KING TRUMP fighter jet, and continuing to bomb crowds of protesters with brown sludge that clearly looks like feces. All this to the tune of Kenny Loggins’ 1986 hit song “Danger Zone” – an obvious reference to the “Top Gun” films – and despite Trump insisting he was “not a king” on air. Fox Business on the eve of the protests.
The scatology video was posted on the president’s personal and government social media accounts and was accompanied by Vice President J.D. Vance’s own AI video of Trump wearing a crown and cape.
This is not the first time Trump and his allies troll their opponents by posting AI-generated images or enhancing threats with AI. One of the latest cases was his image “Chipocalypse Now”.
However, this latest post was widely criticized online as one of the most “pathetic” attempts to dismiss Trump’s critics.
Many expressed shock at how the video showed disdain for people exercising their right to protest and an “offensive” disregard for democracy.
Social media users accused Trump of having “the maturity and decency of a 12-year-old boy,” while others commented: “I can’t believe this is the president of the country.”
Many posts noted that Trump’s “childish” and “disgusting” AI post transparently reflected his true feelings towards the American people. “This tells you everything you need to know about what he thinks about the people of America, who are, in essence, America,” one social media user commented, while another added: “His crap on the country is the most honest thing he’s ever posted.”
Check out some of the reactions below:
Former US Secretary of State and Trump’s Democratic rival in 2016, Hillary Clinton, wrote: “He’s definitely not mad that 7 million Americans came out to protest him yesterday…”
Trump and his social media team regularly use artificial intelligence. Trump was portrayed as pope, Jedi And superman.
The use of AI in videos and memes is its way of waging a “meme war,” a term used by Kurt Sengul, a researcher at Macquarie University in Australia.
Recently Sengul told Euronews Culture on Trump’s use generative AIwhich allows you to create an ecosystem where everything seems frivolous. According to Sengul, Trump’s position is that if you are upset, then you “have no sense of humor and cannot joke.”
Despite the humor, outrage over Trump’s recent video seems to unite those who argue that such a publication is not at all the level of the presidency.
