Overview
- Trump posted a 19-second AI-generated clip on Truth Social late Saturday portraying “King Trump” in a jet dropping feces on protesters during “No Kings” demonstrations in what appears to be Times Square.
- On Monday night, Stephen Colbert aired the clip on The Late Show and called it “insane” while quipping that “King Trump crapping on America” was “factually accurate.”
- Colbert mocked the imagery with on-air dietary advice for the president, telling him to eat a vegetable and add flax seeds to a milkshake.
- He said only an idiot would defend the post and noted that House Speaker Mike Johnson had done so earlier Monday.
- Johnson publicly labeled the video “satire” and said critics were taking it too seriously, highlighting partisan divides over AI-driven political content and protest-targeting rhetoric.