An estimated 7 million people turned out to more than 2,700 “No Kings” anti-authoritarian protests across the country on Saturday, according to organizers. If estimates are correct, it would be one of the largest one-day protests in American history. Although the rallies were broadly peaceful and even joyful, that didn’t stop figures on the right, including the president, from having outsized reactions to the day’s events.
The award for most ridiculous reaction goes to the president. On Truth Social, Donald Trump shared an apparently AI-generated video in which an AI version of himself pilots a military fighter jet, while wearing a crown, over a crowd of protesters. In the video, AI Trump then dumps shit on people participating in the protest. He also reposted multiple images d