Internet outraged over Donald Trump’s ‘disgusting’ AI video response to historic 'No Kings' protests

Published on 20/10/2025 - 11:58 GMT+2

Millions of Americans marched against Trump’s management this weekend, pinch nan “No Kings” march opposing nan president’s “authoritarian powerfulness grab.”

The 18 October protest, nan 3rd wide mobilisation since Trump's return to nan White House, drew astir 7 cardinal group crossed each 50 states according to organisers. This fig would make it nan largest single-day mobilisation against a US president successful modern history.

Several Hollywood figures for illustration Jimmy Kimmel, Spike Lee, Robert De Niro and Glenn Close joined nan protestors and expressed their guidance to Trump’s presidency and nan increasing levels of authoritarianism.

Oscar-winning character Jamie Lee Curtis posted a photograph of a “no parking” motion pinch duct portion covering letters to publication “no king.”

She wrote: “In this world of abundance and BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST, it doesn’t matter if this was nan MOST group ever turning retired successful protest, it conscionable matters that we SHOWED UP, STOOD UP, said what we THINK and FEEL and now nan HARD work. We person a YEAR to nonstop a existent MESSAGE astatine nan BALLOT BOX which is our AMERICAN VOICE, and so, let’s get &$@KING BUSY!”

Instead of presidentially reacting to nan serene opposition, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video connected Truth Social which showed him wearing a crown, flying a “KING TRUMP” combatant jet, and proceeding to explosive crowds of protestors pinch brownish sludge which intelligibly looked for illustration feces. All this to Kenny Loggins’ 1986 deed opus ‘Danger Zone’ - an evident reference to nan Top Gun movies – and contempt nan truth that Trump insisted that he is “not a king” connected Fox Business up of nan protests.

The scatological video was shared connected nan president’s individual and authorities societal media accounts, and joined by Vice President JD Vance’s very ain AI video of Trump wearing a crown and cape.

This is not nan first clip that Trump and his friends person trolled their opponents by posting AI-generated images aliases ramped up threats utilizing AI – 1 of nan latest being his “Chipocalypse Now” image, which led Euronews Culture to ask: “Is nan Trump management culturally illiterate?”

However, this latest station has been wide blasted online arsenic 1 of nan astir “pathetic” attempts to disregard Trump’s critics.

Many expressed daze complete nan measurement nan video shows disdain for group exercising their correct to protestation and nan “insulting” dismissal of populist – arsenic if to beryllium nan protestors’ point.

Social media users accused Trump of having “the maturity and decorum of a 12-year-old boy”, while others commented: “Can’t judge that’s a president of a country.”

Many posts pointed retired that Trump’s “childish” and “disgusting” AI station revealed a transparent practice of his genuine feelings toward nan American people. "It tells you everything you request to cognize astir what he thinks astir nan group of America who are, successful fact, America," 1 personification commented, while different added: "Him taking a dump connected nan state is nan astir honorable point he's ever posted.”

Check retired immoderate of nan reactions below:

Reacting to nan post, erstwhile Secretary of State and Trump's Democratic force successful 2016, Hillary Clinton, wrote: "He's decidedly not huffy that 7 cardinal Americans came retired to protestation him yesterday...”

Trump and his societal media squad regularly utilise AI. Trump has been portrayed arsenic the Pope, a suspiciously jacked Jedi and moreover Superman.

The usage of AI videos and memes is his measurement of engaging successful “memetic warfare” - a word employed by Kurt Sengul, a interrogator astatine Macquarie University successful Australia.

Sengul precocious spoke to Euronews Culture astir Trump’s usage of generative AI, which allows nan creation of an ecosystem wherever thing appears to beryllium serious. Trump’s stance is that if you get upset, it’s because you are “humourless and can’t return a joke,” according to Sengul.

Humour notwithstanding, nan outrage astatine Trump’s caller video seems to beryllium uniting those who affirm that “This is acold beneath nan Presidency.”