{"id":227826,"date":"2025-10-20T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227826\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:13:07","slug":"trump-reposts-ai-generated-video-of-plane-dumping-sludge-on-no-kings-protesters-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227826\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reposts AI-generated video of plane dumping sludge on No Kings protesters | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump<\/a> reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words \u201cKing Trump\u201d and dumping brown sludge on to protesters, in what appears to be a retort to the widespread No Kings protests<\/a> that took place on Saturday against his second presidency.<\/p>\n

In the video, which the president posted on Saturday night, a sharply orange Trump is seen donning a gold crown and manning a plane monikered \u201cKing Trump\u201d. The video zooms away from Trump and shows the plane dumping bursts of brown matter on an AI-generated cityscape. A protester, taking a selfie video, captures the crowd being covered in the brown liquid. The last shot of the 19-second video is of protesters in what appears to be Times Square getting dumped on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first AI-generated video Trump has posted on his timeline, which is full of edited memes and videos professing praise for the president and his allies while mocking his political enemies.<\/p>\n

Earlier in October, Trump posted a deepfake video<\/a> \u2013 or an AI-generated clip that is made to look real \u2013 of Chuck Schumer, the US Senate minority leader, calling his fellow Democrats \u201cwoke pieces of shit\u201d. The video also had a racist depiction of Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic US House leader, dressed in a fake moustache and a sombrero set to mariachi music.<\/p>\n

When asked to comment on the video, JD Vance defended it, saying that he thought \u201cit\u2019s funny\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats\u2019 positions,\u201d the vice-president said. \u201cI\u2019ll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now \u2013 I make this solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was also criticized<\/a> for using deepfake videos and AI-generated images shoring up support for his winning the 2024 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

The Republican party overall seems to have gotten comfortable using AI-generated images and videos. On Friday, the social media account for Senate Republicans posted<\/a> an attack ad against Schumer that used a deepfake depiction of the senator saying \u201cevery day gets better for us\u201d amid the federal government shutdown. The video had a small disclaimer in the corner of the video labeling it as AI-generated.<\/p>\n

No Kings protests<\/a> were seen in all 50 states on Saturday, with millions coming out against the Trump administration \u2013 with signs<\/a> like \u201csorry for being weird, this is my first dictatorship\u201d and \u201cNo Kings Since 1776\u201d, referring to the year that the US declared its independence from the UK.<\/p>\n

In an interview before the protests, Trump said that he didn\u2019t agree with the \u201cking\u201d label.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey say they\u2019re referring to me as a king. I\u2019m not a king,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Trump took a harsher tone in comments<\/a> to reporters. \u201cI\u2019m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That\u2019s all it is. I\u2019m not a king at all,\u201d Trump said, adding that he thought the protests were \u201ca joke\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people were whacked out,\u201d he continued. \u201cWhen you look at those people, they are not representative of the people of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump reposted an AI-generated video of him flying a fighter plane emblazoned with the words \u201cKing Trump\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-227826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}