President Donald Trump took his trolling to surreal new heights late Saturday, sharing an AI-generated video that shows him flying a fighter jet over New York City and dumping sewage on protesters from the anti-Trump “No Kings” movement.
The 19-second clip, posted to his Truth Social account, opens with Kenny Loggins’ Top Gun anthem “Danger Zone” playing in the background. In it, Trump — wearing a golden crown and aviator glasses — pilots a jet streaking above what appears to be Times Square. As the camera pans down, the aircraft releases waves of brown sludge onto demonstrators below.
The jet’s fuselage bears the words “King Trump.” Among those shown being drenched is left-leaning influencer Harry Sisson, whose real footage from a recent “No Kings” protest was digitally inserted into the AI montage.
“That plane wouldn’t have made it off the ground with your fat— in the pilot’s seat,” the 23-year-old Sisson fired back on X, formerly Twitter. “Can a reporter please ask Trump why he posted an AI video of himself dropping poop on me from a fighter jet? That would be great thanks.”
The video dropped just hours after the latest wave of “No Kings” demonstrations swept across the country. Organizers had planned roughly 2,600 rallies nationwide Saturday to protest what they describe as Trump’s “authoritarian” style of governance.
The movement first made headlines in June during the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. — an event that coincided with Trump’s birthday and saw early protests under the “No Kings” banner.
Vice President JD Vance joined in on Saturday’s online trolling, posting his own AI-created clip to BlueSky that portrayed Trump placing a crown on his head and morphing into a monarch. The short video also showed Trump drawing a sword as Democrats like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared kneeling before him — a digitally remixed scene based on real footage from 2020, when Pelosi and other lawmakers knelt wearing kente stoles in a “moment of silence” for police-reform efforts.
The White House also entered BlueSky the same day, sharing a montage of Trump’s most infamous troll moments — including a previous deepfake that depicted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero after budget negotiations. Jeffries blasted that video at the time as racist.
Several senior Trump administration officials followed suit, opening accounts on the platform Saturday as the president’s digital team expanded its presence beyond Truth Social.
Trump’s history with AI-generated imagery stretches back months. In February, he posted a mock tourism video advertising a fictional “Trump Gaza” luxury resort in the middle of the war-torn enclave. Earlier this month, he amplified a video of OMB Director Russ Vought as the Grim Reaper swinging a scythe — a jab at Democrats who had blocked a Republican plan to avert a partial government shutdown.
Critics see Saturday’s post as another escalation in Trump’s use of AI for political theatre — blurring satire and intimidation. While the imagery may have been meant as mockery, digital-ethics advocates warned that such deepfakes normalize disinformation and could intimidate protesters exercising free-speech rights.
For Trump’s supporters, however, the clip fits squarely within his longstanding brand of over-the-top internet humor — part trolling, part power play.
Whether intended as a joke or a show of dominance, the “King Trump” fighter-jet video underscores the new political reality of 2025: the U.S. president is now creating, starring in, and weaponizing his own AI-produced propaganda.