Well, who cares that there is a government shutdown? President Donald Trump has bigger fish to fry, apparently. 47 set off another online firestorm late Saturday, posting a 19-second, AI-generated video that depicts him as a crown-wearing fighter pilot flying over New York City and dumping sewage on “No Kings” demonstrators.
Set to Danger Zone, the Top Gun anthem, the clip features a jet labeled “King Trump” streaking past Times Square before unleashing brown sludge onto crowds — including real footage of influencer and protest organizer Harry Sisson. Watch below:
Sisson, who appears to be getting doused in the edit, fired back on X: “That plane wouldn’t have made it off the ground with your fat— in the pilot’s seat… Can a reporter please ask Trump why he posted an AI video of himself dropping poop on me from a fighter jet?”
The post landed just hours after nationwide “No Kings” rallies drew massive turnouts in dozens of cities, including Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. Organizers say more than 2,600 demonstrations were planned to oppose the administration’s policies and the ongoing federal immigration sweeps. Marchers leaned into street-theater vibes — bands, oversized “We the People” banners, and a wave of inflatable costumes — to counter pre-event GOP claims that the day would be a “hate America” display.
The president, who earlier insisted “I’m not a king” in a Fox News interview, has increasingly embraced AI-powered trolling on social media. Saturday’s jet video wasn’t the only crown imagery circulating: Vice President JD Vance posted his own AI clip on BlueSky showing Trump donning royal robes and a crown as Democratic leaders kneel, using real 2020 footage of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Capitol “moment of silence” as a visual punchline.
The White House’s official BlueSky account also joined the fray with a montage of Trump’s greatest online hits, including a recent deepfake of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero after a shutdown meeting, a post Jeffries blasted as racist. Earlier this year, Trump shared a glossy AI concept for a “Trump Gaza” resort and, more recently, an ominous clip of OMB Director Russ Vought swinging a Grim Reaper scythe amid budget brinkmanship.
Saturday’s AI aerial bombardment arrives amid a protracted federal shutdown fight and intensifying legal and political clashes between the administration, courts, and Democratic governors over immigration enforcement and National Guard deployments. In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom publicly objected to a planned live-fire Marine Corps demonstration that would have required closing a major interstate, calling it a dangerous stunt.
While Republican leaders spent much of the past week previewing the second “No Kings” day as a radical, anti-American spectacle, reaction from the party on Saturday was comparatively muted beyond the VP’s royal riff and right-leaning media segments tying protest partners to pro-Palestinian activist networks. Organizers, for their part, cast the marches as a civics-class corrective, pointing to the Constitution’s preamble banners and US flags (some flown upside-down as a distress signal) as evidence of broad-based, peaceful dissent.
What’s new isn’t that politics is theatrical; it’s the tools. AI-assisted agit-prop now arrives faster than fact-checks, blurring the line between satire and state messaging. The weekend’s takeaway: protesters marched; the president memed. And in 2025’s attention economy, both count as ground game.
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No Kings Day draws millions nationwide
