President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens
from the 2025-isn't-1984 dept
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth.” —George Orwell, 1984
This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history. The “No Kings” demonstrations drew an estimated 5.2 to 8.2 million people across all 50 states (according to G. Elliott Morris), with massive crowds filling the streets of major cities and surprisingly robust turnouts even in small, rural communities that voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
The protests were overwhelmingly peaceful—so much so that police in New York City, Austin, and San Diego all reported zero protest-related arrests, which is frankly remarkable given the scale of participation.
There were similar reports in other cities, including Washington DC, which is kinda notable given that the last time the MAGA crowd “protested” in DC, people died, and eventually over 1,200 people were convicted (even if Trump later pardoned them all).
Before the protests even happened, Republican politicians like House Speaker Mike Johnson preemptively labeled them a “hate America rally” filled with potential “terrorists.” They were proven spectacularly wrong by the peaceful nature of the demonstrations, but their fear-mongering served its purpose: justifying the future mobilization of National Guard units in multiple states for what turned out to be entirely peaceful gatherings.
You’d think these basic facts would be hard to dispute. After all, millions of people witnessed the events firsthand, millions more saw the coverage, and the photographic and video evidence is overwhelming. But if you listened to Donald Trump’s response, you’d think you were living in an alternate reality.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, Trump dismissed the massive demonstrations with a series of statements that were so obviously false they’d make a carnival barker blush:
“I think it’s a joke. I looked at the people, they’re not representative of this country, and I looked at all the brand new signs paid for, I guess it was paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. It looks like it was, we’re checking it out. The demonstrations were very small, very ineffective, and the people who are whacked out. Would you look at those people. They’re not representative of the people of our country.”
Let’s break this down. “Very small”? We’re talking about potentially the largest single-day protest in American history. “Very ineffective”? The turnout exceeded even the organizers’ expectations and every previous protest against Trump including both the 2017 Women’s March and the earlier No Kings march a few months ago.
“Not representative of this country”? When millions of Americans from all 50 states show up, including in deep red rural areas, that’s about as representative as it gets. Anyone who looked at the photos from these protests could tell you that they were absolutely representative of this country. Indeed, there was a feeling of joy. People were joking and dancing and singing. If anything, the crowd skewed older, but that’s shocking in its own way, given that protests tend to be a younger person’s game.
Let’s go to just a tiny bit of the evidence: these were massive crowds, all over the country (including deeply Republican areas), with crowds that were incredibly representative of America:
I could go on. But you get the point. The point that Donald Trump is desperately trying to make sure you ignore or disbelieve. The evidence is overwhelming. From massive crowds in Chicago to rural communities in Iowa to even Trump’s own backyard in Florida, Americans showed up en masse for peaceful protests that were anything but “very small.” Anyone with functioning eyeballs can see this.
But the lies don’t stop there. Trump also claimed without evidence that the signs were paid for by George Soros and “radical left lunatics,” feeding into the same tired conspiracy theories his supporters always trot out when faced with genuine grassroots opposition they can’t explain away. And, once again, every accusation is a confession. The only ones known for buying and paying for signs at rallies are… the GOP.
Trump made it quite clear that his only motivation in governing is to try to attack those he perceives as disloyal, because rather than attempting to address the actual protests or the complaints, he posted to social media an AI-generated video of himself wearing a crown, flying a fighter jet labeled “KING TRUMP,” and dumping what was clearly meant to be load of shit on protesters. Most media outlets, in their typical both-sides fashion, euphemistically described this as “brown liquid” or “brown substance,” apparently too squeamish to call out the obvious scatological nature of what Trump was depicting himself doing to American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.
Honestly, the video was pathetic in multiple ways. It really felt like the kind of thing that a silly “resistance” type account might post to mock Trump, and there he was posting it himself. And it’s quite telling that his response to the “no kings” rally goes straight to his instinctual “if they say no kings, then I’m going to mock them by saying ‘yes, I want to be king, and yes, I want to shit on them.’“
That serves only one purpose: to excite his ever-dwindling set of immature fanboys on social media. It doesn’t show leadership. It doesn’t show himself as responsive to his constituents. It just makes him look like a sad, pathetic old man whose only move is to try to piss off the “right” people.
Meanwhile, if you want to talk about “hating America,” it’s hard to top the image of a president fantasizing about literally dumping shit on millions of his own citizens for the “crime” of peaceful protest.
I feel like we need to emphasize this: the President posted a video of himself dumping shit on people peacefully protesting. When Hillary Clinton suggested some of Trump’s followers were “deplorables,” it was a months-long story. When Biden was misleadingly and incorrectly accused of calling Trump supporters “garbage,” it was a constant news story. But when Trump literally fantasizes about dumping shit on people exercising their constitutional rights, it’s euphemized away, played down, and discounted.
This is what we’re dealing with: a president who can look at the largest protest in American history and declare it “very small” with a straight face, while the media largely lets him get away with it. It’s the kind of brazen reality-denial that would make Orwell’s Ministry of Truth proud.
It’s no surprise that Trump lies—we’ve known that for years. What’s insidious is how the lies are presented as just another side of a “he said, she said” story, rather than what they actually are: easily verifiable falsehoods about events that millions of people witnessed with their own eyes.
These aren’t just lies for their own sake. In that same Air Force One interview, Trump talked about invoking the Insurrection Act, falsely claiming that 50% of presidents have used it (they have not) and that “everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that” (they do not).
The lies about “very small” protests and “radical left lunatics” funded by Soros aren’t random bullshit—they’re the predicate for deploying military force against American cities. Trump is constructing an alternative reality that justifies authoritarian responses to constitutionally protected dissent.
The president is openly lying about easily verifiable facts that millions of people witnessed, and those lies are being used to justify sending in the fucking military. When millions of Americans exercise their constitutional right to peaceful protest, Trump’s response is to fantasize about dumping shit on them and then claim they don’t exist.
This is a direct assault on the concept of shared reality itself, and it’s being used to justify authoritarian crackdowns on dissent. The Orwell quote at the top isn’t literary flourish—it’s a roadmap that Trump is following step by step.
The evidence of our eyes and ears tells us that millions of Americans peacefully demonstrated this weekend. Trump told us to reject that evidence and accept his version of reality where massive protests are “very small” and peaceful demonstrators are “terrorists” requiring military intervention.
We are watching the systematic destruction of the idea that objective reality exists, and the media’s response is to treat it like just another political disagreement, another political horse race over who came out of this looking the best. That’s not journalism—it’s complicity.
This is not a drill. This is happening now. When a president can lie about events witnessed by millions and use those lies to justify military action against peaceful protesters, we’ve crossed a line that democracies don’t typically come back from. The question isn’t whether Trump is lying—the evidence is incontrovertible. The question is whether our institutions, our media, and ultimately we as citizens are going to allow him to get away with it.
Because if we do, then Orwell’s warning will have become our reality, and “the lie will have passed into history and become truth.”
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Group Therapy for TDS Sufferers...
… in evidence.
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Accusation-confession.
“You’re all crazy! I’m the sane one, I tell you!” he repeated, frothing at the mouth.
Trump has the weight of government force behind him and billions of dollars and immunity from his numerous crimes, yet you apparently feel compelled to defend his fragile ego in ways he will never see or appreciate or give two fucks for.
That sounds pretty fucking deranged to me.
I used to desperately want the traditional media to do better.
Now I just want them to die as quickly as possible and hope that the new outlets being started by reputable journalists catch on in their place.
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The cowardice from the people running these things will be remembered, and it will not save them when Trump’s goons start burning printing presses and invading newsrooms mid broadcast. People will look back at them with the same disdain they do the various establisment ghouls who thought they could simply look the other way or control Hitler when he rose to power.
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I’d like to think this will be remembered, but half the electorate couldn’t even fucking remember what Trump’s first term was like.
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Possibly due to long covid from them licking doorknobs because the Democrats said the virus was bad so it must be god’s gift.
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There would have been Trump 24 voters who were still in Elementary school in 2016…
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Ownership. That’s the key. The legacy media companies are all giant corporations controlled by billionaire oligarchs; their news is thus inherently untrustworthy and does not make anyone well-informed. To actually be well-informed you need to get news from a number of outlets that are owned by different people, and those outlets need to be doing actual journalism.
The tell is about Trump, yes, but it’s also about his MAGA loyalists and American conservatives in general. They have such a child-like way of thinking: “We have to be the ‘nuh-uh’ to their ‘uh-huh’ even if that means defending atrocities and man-made horrors within our comprehension.” If a Congressional Democrat tried to pass a law banning child marriage nationwide, at least one Congressional Republican would go on the record to opposed it because “well, I know a couple who got married young and they turned out okay” (despite the couple having an age difference of at least ten years where the man is the older half of the couple). We aren’t being governed by rational adults any more. We’re being ruled by a bunch of toddlers who believe the world must like them and think they’re cool or else.
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conservatives have a mental disease where they see believing obvious lies as “winning”
https://theconversation.com/winning-with-misinformation-new-research-identifies-link-between-endorsing-easily-disproven-claims-and-prioritizing-symbolic-strength-265652
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We also live in a world where way too many politicians play the game of “my side good, your side bad”.
Using your example, a Democrat could try to ban child marriage and many Republicans would oppose it (and vote FOR child marriage) just because it’s something the Democrats want.
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From an article posted on The 19th (19thNews.org; link is to article)
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And then brag about passing it even though they voted against it.
Re: Maybe in Bizarro world....
If a Congressional Democrat tried to pass a law banning child marriage nationwide, at least one Congressional Republican would go on the record to opposed it because “well, I know a couple who got married young and they turned out okay” (despite the couple having an age difference of at least ten years where the man is the older half of the couple).
Utter poppycock, I mean can you even imagine a republican openly supporting sexual interactions between old men and young girls, and/or defending those that were credibly accused of doing that?
50%? I don't think so!
“I’m allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invocations_of_the_Insurrection_Act#:~:text=The%20act%20has%20been%20invoked,the%201992%20Los%20Angeles%20riots.
Per that article, the Insurrection Act has been invoked 31 times, 30 separate incidents, in our nations history by, 15 times by presidents and once illegally by MacArthur. 4 times to prevent the state from using the national guard from acting, they were ordered to stand down.
Not once has it been used to stop peaceful protest.
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And precisely 0% of that matters to Donald “if you don’t love me, bad things will happen to you” Trump.
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Facts may not matter to him, but they matter.
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Not once has it been used to stop peaceful protest
Exactly!
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Leftiwingers protest (and often riot) when they don’t get their way.
It really isn’t the flex you think it is.
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You couldn’t identify a leftwinger if your next dose of hydroxychloroquine depended on it, grandpa.
It’s amazing what AI can do, generating fake videos of dozen thousands protesters in a bunch of cities!
So should I use it to make fake MAGA protests?
Nope, I’ll do some shitty video of me as king throwing excrement on this whole country that doesn’t deserve me.
(Trump, probably.)
Re: Don't deserve him
Elected the cunt twice, after he told you he was a pussy grabber, you fucking deserve him.
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Millions of people voted against him in 2016, 2020, and 2024. He only won the popular vote once (2024). If anything, the Electoral College and the automatic advantage it gives to the racist-ass South is more to blame for his victories than are Democrat voters. And because I know someone will mention it: Yes, people who would’ve voted Dem in 2024 had they shown up to vote instead of staying home should’ve gone to vote even if they had to cast a hold-my-nose vote for Kamala. But I’m not eager to blame them because the Dems (including Biden and Harris) made so many fuck-ups during the Biden presidency and the 2024 campaign that I understand why the Dem base didn’t turn out like they should’ve in places that would’ve helped Kamala win the presidency.
Your kind of statement is a lot like left-leaning types who look down on everyone in Republican-led states precisely because those states are run by Republicans: Not everyone cast their vote for the GOP, and casting those people as evil or stupid or whatever because they live in those states doesn’t do anyone (including those people) any favors. Like, there’s plenty of queer people in Texas—are you going to say they deserve to be targeted by state legislation only and specifically because they live in a state where they can’t outvote Republicans?
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I think what too many people not voting against Trump did not properly realize that voting for Kamala Harris in many ways would have been kicking the can down the road, leading to another election in a similar U.S. 4 years later.
Even any actually conservative Republican would have had a much better chance of getting to elect an actually conservative Republican president 4 years later under a president Harris than they will get under a president Trump.
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A sizable percentage of the country(the majority of eligible voters) is getting exactly what they deserve for either voting for him or refusing to vote against him, sure, but a sizable chunk(those that voted for Harris, and those too young to vote) are very much not.
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White privilege
Crowds at least 90% white in large urban areas that are 35% white. The racism that allows whites to feel safe enough to protests whether no kings or stop the steal.
Props to the Arizona Republic for calling it what it is and calling out CNN and the NYT for their euphemisms: Donald Trump AI video poops on free speech. Literally
I wasn’t expecting to see you include even little old Albuquerque in your clip roll, thanks! It was GREAT!
You have to admit that that diaper blowout and the sheer volume he produced were impressive.
They actively help him. One extra detail I would add is how these traditional media outlets downplayed the protests themselves (ie, NYT putting it below the fold). We had years of handwringing over the Tea Party, front and center.
It’s not even just downplaying Trump’s own words, they distort reality.
Yeah, but those were the Volk, so it’s different. /s
I’ve spent my entire life being insulted by the GOP and treated as not a real person worth caring about, and it’s never ever been treated as problematic, much less newsworthy.
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The Pogues to “herrenvolk” Lawrence Fox, the new Arkell vs Pressdram for our age.
https://x.com/poguesofficial/status/1329394157354446850
Still in the potty stage
Considering Trump is completely full of shit, it isn’t surprising he would feel the need to dump it on the American people. I feel sad for the old guy and his turkey vagina neck.
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I can’t believe the king allowed this to happen
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I imagine you’re not a good student of history, but what others have learned is that you don’t wait to oppose authoritarians until they’re marching you off to a concentration camp.
So?
King Orange had always had kind of a weak grasp concerning crowd size.
'A real 'murican protest would have been VIOLENT!'
I can see why he wouldn’t think they were ‘legitimate’ protests, these days for MAGAts unless there’s a body or two lying in a pool of blood, mass violence and a bunch of smashed up property that’s little more than a minor gathering of buddies.
As for the stenographers playing pretend ‘journalists’ while their complicity is hardly surprising they’re just reminding people how utterly useless they are as a source of actual news, so well done punching yourselves in the groin again chumps.
Odd to not see Portland mentioned, but there were a lot of people in a lot of places.
I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country.
Motherfucker, inflatable frogs, chickens, and extinct phyla are totally representative of this country, as are the overwhelming number of people in your age bracket and older who disagree with your lawlessness. And everyone else.
If Dave Matthews can dump shit on people then why not