House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the video President Trump shared that was generated with artificial intelligence (AI) depicting himself dropping what appeared to be human waste on “No Kings” protesters “deeply unserious.”
“Well, that video is deeply unserious, deeply unpresidential, and deeply un-American,” Jeffries said late Monday in an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
“But, unfortunately, it’s the type of erratic, extreme behavior that the American people have continued to see from this president and from this administration from the very beginning,” he added.
The Democratic leader condemned his Republican colleagues for continuing to “whitewash” what he described as the president’s “extreme behavior.”
“And, of course, it’s no surprise to us that House Republicans continue to behave as nothing more than reckless rubber stamps for Donald Trump’s extreme agenda that’s hurting the American people,” Jeffries continued. “And, of course, for his extreme behavior that they continue to whitewash.”
Trump late Saturday shared the AI-generated video of himself wearing a crown while piloting a fighter jet and dumping brown liquid on “No Kings” demonstrators.
As Kenny Loggins’s song “Danger Zone” plays in the background, the “King Trump” jet flies over Times Square in New York City and drops what appears to be feces over protesters.
The president on his Truth Social platform shared another AI-generated video, originally posted by Vice President Vance’s Bluesky account, of the president wearing a crown before a cape forms over his shoulders and he unsheathes a sword.
That video ends with a clip of Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), kneeling to honor the late George Floyd in 2020.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissed the video on Monday as “satire,” saying some of the protesters at Saturday’s rallies were “trying to incite violence.”
“You say that Democrats had a ‘hate America’ rally. But what does it say that the president of the United States, over the weekend, released a video of him pooping on the American people?” a reporter asked Johnson in a press conference Monday.
He responded: “The president uses social media to make the point.”
“You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that he is,” Johnson continued. “He is using satire to make a point.”
The latest video comes weeks after Trump mocked Jeffries and Schumer for the government shutdown with a separate video.
That video, also generated with AI, depicted the House Democratic leader having a cartoon mustache and wearing a sombrero. The post also included dubbed audio that made the Senate minority leader appear to bash his own party.
