Liberal influencer on Trump AI video dropping feces on him: ‘Alas, here we are’
Liberal influencer Harry Sisson said Tuesday he was not amused by President Trump’s AI-generated video featuring himself dropping what appeared to be feces on “No Kings Day” protesters.
“I don’t think the president behaving in this way is funny,” Sisson told Piers Morgan on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “I think we have to hold our leaders to a higher standard. That’s something that you typically see in my Twitter comments from like some MAGA boomer who spends their time making AI videos all day.”
Posted Saturday, the video shows Trump, wearing a crown and in the cockpit of a fighter jet, soaring over protesters, first in a generic cityscape before flying over Times Square in New York City. The jet then unloads brown liquid over large swaths of demonstrators, as Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone” plays in the background.
Sisson appears to be one of the demonstrators seen in the video.
“It’s not something you’d really hope to see from the president of the United States, but alas, we are here,” Sisson added.
Morgan pressed Sisson on Trump’s critics sharing AI-generated videos and memes lampooning Trump. Sisson asked if a high-ranking Democrat has done so, to which Morgan brought up California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) press office using social media to mock the president.
“I think taste is a big point here,” Sisson replied. “I think, objectively, Gavin Newsom mocking Trump on social media or posting AI photos of himself or something like that is vastly different than Trump pooping on Americans, including myself and the American flag in that video.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissed criticism of the video on Monday.
“The president uses social media to make the point,” he told reporters. “You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that he is. He is using satire to make a point.”
On CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” that night, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called the video “deeply unserious, deeply unpresidential and deeply un-American.”
“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 said.
Actor Jeff Daniels, who spoke with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Tuesday night, asked if President Abraham Lincoln would have made such a video.
“I think people in the Midwest, where I am … we value our decency and our civility,” said Daniels, who grew up in Michigan and founded a theater company in the Great Lakes State. “Down the road, if [Trump] doesn’t deliver on the economy like he promised he would, then that stuff will start to add up. And they’ll get tired of it, and they’ll vote for change.”