No no it’s chocolate
On Oct. 18, 2025, the day people across the U.S. attended “No Kings” protests to decry U.S. President Donald Trump, Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself in a fighter jet, dropping a brown substance on protesters while wearing a crown.
A brown substance aka shit.
Generated by artificial intelligence, the video depicted Trump wearing a crown while flying a fighter jet with the words “King Trump” painted on its side. As the jet flew over city protests, it dumped loads of a brown substance. The video then cut to the ground, where the substance landed on protesters, including Democratic social media influencer Harry Sisson. Reports have described the brown substance as “brown sludge,” “apparent human excrement,” a “poop-like substance,” or something that “appears to be feces.”
Or it could be, you know, chocolate mousse, or mud, or excrement originating from non-human animals, or um chocolate cake batter.
A journalist asked House Speaker Mike Johnson about the AI-generated video on Oct. 20.
“The president uses social media to make the point. You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who’s ever used social media for that,” Johnson said, according to Politico. “He is using satire to make a point. He is not calling for the murder of his political opponents.”
Ah yet another high point in our national history. The House top Republican defends the president’s literal shit-video as “satire.” We are a proud nation.
Of course not! He didn’t say exactly what the 2nd amendment people were supposed to do to Hillary. On the same note, he only said that it was a nice store, and that it would be a shame if something happened to it. What’s wrong with that? Are you saying it wouldn’t be a shame?
Not to mention, it is exactly the sort of thing a 12-year-old boy would do.
I’m going to pass on the stunning childishness of this video being reposted by someone who claims to be a head of state. Whatever. I’m more interested in aspects of the content that might go unnoticed by people who aren’t active or retired airplane geeks*, and what it might reveal about the some of the current limitations of AI generated imagery.
The aircraft that our ersatz Darth Cheetoh takes off in is not the same as the one he flies over the protesters. Neither one actually exists in real life, but have been cobbled together with no regards to continuity or object permanence. The front half of the plane he takes off in is based on an F-18, while the tail is a strangely doubled exhaust and tail/rudder of an F-16. On the “bombing run” the plane’s nose has now morphed into something stolen from an F-15 (compare the narrow, curved intakes of the jet taking off with the boxy, angular intakes of the second), while the engine exhausts look like some multi-tubed arrangement borrowed from one of Wile E. Coyote’s more high-powered contraptions of self-destruction). All of the bits look photo-realistic, but the whole is something bonkers.
I’ve noticed the same with AI “whale photos” used in more and more calendars, with these abominations being that much creepier because of their intent to pass off their grotesque, chimerical asymmetry as something biological. Impossible AI airplanes just look stupid and unlikely, whereas AI animals are sinister inhabitants of an uncanny valley best avoided. Click-bait Youtube icons showing images that never appear in the videos they’re ostensibly advertising are a another outlet for impressively unlikely AI shenanigans that are following the tradition of Sci-Fi movie posters depicting scenes and situations that won’t ever grace the screen if you somehow sit down to watch them, but make them look more interesting and exciting than they actually were**. But then that’s the whole point of advertising, isn’t it? Plus ça change….
*As a teen, I got hushed by someone in a movie theatre during a showing of Midway (the 1976 version starring Charlton Heston, released in SENSURROND) for pointing out to the friend I was watching with how the aircraft used in the WWII stock footage kept changing from shot to shot, with one character’s plane changing from Hellcat, to Helldiver, to Corsair, etc. Not my proudest moment as a cinema patron, but this kinda stuff has always bugged me to an inordinate degree. I like to think that I have gotten better at keeping my thoughts to myself in public.
**Checkout posters for The Valley of Gwangi (1969), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), Soylent Green (1973,) The Land that Time Forgot (1974), to name a few that I’ve sat through myself, vainly looking for the scenes in the posters. Still finding cheese, but of a different kind than was printed on the label.
So basically whatever shitty GenAI they’re using is worse than Hasbro making up Transformers alt-modes, even Triple Changers…
My question is: Is the opposition not doing stuff like this? And if so, why not?
Not to mention that his mask doesn’t cover his nose.
If king DJT is making bombing runs, why isn’t he flying a bomber instead of a fighter jet? What’s the bomb payload of a fighter jet? Or am I way behind on my understanding of military aircraft?
That’s because he’s Superbro, he doesn’t need no stinkin’ mask that fits over his nose.
But…isn’t dumping shit on everything just what he does? The only surprise here is that he’s being honest about it.
YNnB, speaking of the limitations of AI, I recently saw an AI- generated image for which the prompt was to show salmon swimming in a stream. The stream was picture perfect; the salmon fillets in the water not so much.
Proper flight gear (helmet and mask) would have rendered him unrecognizable except for the slightly paler orange around his eyes.
In WWII, the American B-29 could carry a bomb load of up to 20,000 lbs; the British Lancaster would carry up to 22,000 lbs. Both of these bombers used internal bomb bays. An F-18 fighter *can carry up to 17,000 lbs, all externally. Pretty good for a fighter, but current American bombers can haul a lot more. B-1b has a capacity of 75,000 lbs, the B-2 stealth bomber: 40,000 and the venerable B-52 (most of which are a good deal older than the crews flying them) – 70,000 lbs.
Unfortunately, in terms of our Trump video, given the differences in volume/density, I have no idea of what their carrying capacity is for sewage.**
*Sometimes bomb capacity is a secondary consideration, or eschewed altogether. Some fighter strategists, wanting pure dogfighters, will invoke the mantra “Not a pound for air to ground” when asked about their fighter design preferences.
** I’ve got a feeling that Trump would have shared it just as enthusiastically if he’d been depicted dropping napalm.