A NCS host sought to deflect blame for broadcasting a really filthy AI-generated video by reminding viewers simply whose social media escapades had made the clip newsworthy.
“I just have to warn our Sunday morning viewers here, this the president of the United States posting this,” community mainstay Manu Raju stated Sunday morning earlier than taking part in the clip, which encompasses a computer-rendered, topped model of Donald Trump flying a fighter jet that proceeds to dump mounds of feces over crowds of protesters.
Trump had certainly himself posted the video to Truth Social, later additionally shared on X by the official White House account, the night earlier than. The submit was shared in response to greater than 2,600 “No Kings” demonstrations throughout the nation and at U.S. embassies all over the world. The protests have been organized by opponents of what critics describe because the Trump administration’s accelerating slide into authoritarianism.
The president insisted on Friday he’s “not a king,” regardless of a history of referring to himself as such and sharing pictures of himself as a monarch.
Saturday’s demonstrations, estimated to have attracted greater than seven million folks, clearly obtained below the president’s pores and skin. It prompted not solely that night’s filthy AI clip however 9 different movies in fast succession, together with a fan edit of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, footage of National Guard troops in Memphis, and a video initially posted by Vice President JD Vance that exhibits Trump with a crown and sword.
After taking part in the fighter jet clip with the caveat the community was solely “showing his response” to the rallies, Raju went on to ask community White House correspondent Alayna Treene what she product of the president’s social media response to the protests.
“Every time he posts a video like this… it’s obviously not the first time he’s shown some crazy AI video online… every time you think it can’t get weirder, and then it does,” she replied.
Treene is appropriate. Since assuming the presidency for the second time earlier this yr, the 79-year-old president has shared computer-generated movies and pictures of himself as an Apocalypse Now character laying waste to Chicago, of Democratic officers as mariachi band musicians, and of Office for Management and Budget chief Russell Vought swinging a scythe in opposition to Washington D.C, to identify however a number of.
“The president‘s very unhappy. And the fact that he‘s sharing this video as his way of responding,” Treene went on. “I mean, I don‘t really know what to say about it. It‘s crazy how I‘m always shocked by some of these videos. And then more and more, you‘re like, all right, the White House, they‘re sharing this on the official White House account.”