Trump’s AI poop post caps a week of MAGA indifference to Hitler jokes

An estimated seven million Americans gathered Saturday to peacefully protest the collapse of our checks-and-balances democracy into a Trump-led autocracy rife with resentment but little regard for civil rights.

Trump’s response? An AI video of himself wearing a crown inside a fighter jet, dumping what appears to be feces on those same protesters. In a later interview, he called participants in the “No Kings” events “devastated” and “unrepresentative of this country.”

I’m starting to worry that he’s right. What if the majority of Americans truly believed that this kind of behavior from our president, or anyone else, was acceptable? Even funny? A recent Economist/YouGov poll found that 81% of Republicans approve of the way Trump is handling his job. Seriously, the vast majority of Republicans are very happy with Trump’s policies and behavior.

According to MAGA, non-MAGA people are just too uptight these days.

Vice troll JD Vance has become a relentless force not only for defending the basest and cruelest behavior, but also for celebrating it. House Speaker Mike Johnson has made an art form out of limp justification for these behaviors.

Between the two approaches of groveling to Trump’s ego and lying lies everything you need to know about the future of the Republican Party. He will stop at nothing to degrade and dehumanize all opposition – openly admitting that he dreams of burying even those who peacefully oppose him in excrement.

Even singer Kenny Loggins isn’t safe. His “Top Gun” hit “Danger Zone” was used in the video. When he objected with a statement of unity, saying, “Too many people are trying to divide us and we need to find new ways to come together. We are all Americans and we are all patriots. There is no ‘us and them,'” the White House responded with… a dismissive meme, clearly the new normal in response to criticism.

It may seem obvious, and even old news, that this administration lacks accountability. But the use of memes and AI videos as means of communication, devoid of truth or consequences, adds a new level of danger to disconnection.

These non-answers not only remove reality from the equation, but also remove the need for an actual response – thereby creating a ruling class that feels no obligation to explain or defend its actions to the governed.

Politico published an article last week detailing racist, misogynistic and hate-filled exchanges from an official party-sanctioned group of “Young Republicans.” Since most of our current politicians are part of the gerontocracy, this youth is relative – they are adults, in their 20s or 30s – and they are seen as the next generation of party leaders, in a party already so skewed to the right that it champions the secret police.

Here is a sample.

Bobby Walker, former vice president of the New York State Young Republicans, called the rape “epic,” according to Politico.

Another chat member called Black Americans “watermelon people.”

“Great. I like Hitler,” wrote another when told delegates would vote for the most right-wing candidate.

There was also “humor” about gas chambers and a direct, “I’m ready to watch people burn now,” from a woman in the conversation, Anne KayKaty, a national committee member of the Young Republicans from New York, according to the Hill.

Members of the group engaged in insults against South Asians, another popular target of the far right these days. There’s a whole vein of racism devoted to the idea that Indians smell bad, in case you didn’t know.

Speaking of a woman wrongly believed to be South Asian, one member of the group, Vermont State Senator Samuel Douglass, wrote: “She just didn’t swim often. »

While some in the Republican Party denounced, albeit unenthusiastically, these comments, others, including Vance, went on the attack. Vance, whose wife is Indian, says everyone makes a big deal out of nothing.

“But the reality is kids do stupid things. Especially young boys, they tell jokes that are bold and offensive. That’s what kids do,” Vance said. “And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke – telling a very offensive and stupid joke – is a reason to ruin their life.”

Not to be outdone, Johnson responded to the shit-throwing video by somehow insinuating that it had high meaning.

“The president was using social media to make his point,” Johnson said, calling it “satire.”

Satire is intended to embarrass and humiliate, to denounce the indefensible through humor. I will buy the first part. Trump wanted to embarrass and humiliate. But protesting, of course, is anything but indefensible and using feces as a weapon is a way to degrade the “No Kings” participants so that Trump doesn’t have to respond to their anger – much like degrading black people and women in this group chat.

Those 7 million Americans who demonstrated on Saturday simply don’t matter to Trump or the Republicans. Not their health care, not their ability to pay the bills, not their worry that a country they love is turning into one where their leader literally illustrates that he can defecate on them.

But not everyone can be king.

While young Republicans believe they share their leader’s immunity, it turns out that this is not the case. That Vermont state senator? He resigned after pressure from the Republican governor.

Maybe seven million Americans angry at Trump won’t be able to convince him to change his ways, but enough outraged Vermont voters can bring about change in their corner of the country.

That’s why the only thing Trump fears is the midterm elections, when voters will have the chance to shape our own little corners of America — and, by extension, the chance for Trump to continue to use his throne.