President Denies Reality Of Massive Nationwide Protests While Posting Videos of Himself Dumping Shit On Citizens
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.
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
(@indivisible.org)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:
Trump on No Kings: "It's a joke. I looked at the people. They are not representative of this country. And I looked at all the brand new signs I guess paid for by Soros and other radical left lunatics. We're checking it out. The demonstrations were very small. And the people were whacked out."
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:
This is Boise, Idaho one of the most Republican states in the US joining millions of protestors. The people have had enough of the Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
- Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T02:46:10.183Z
Democracy in action, Illinois.Proud of our state for peacefully showing up and speaking out together in one voice to fight back against Donald Trump's takeover of our democracy.
- Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) 2025-10-19T00:24:35.900Z
#nokings Portland frog brigade
- Frettie Fingers (@frettie.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T20:40:34.460Z
"I hear very few people are gonna be there" - Donald Trump, 10/15/25
- Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T22:54:22.595Z
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
- Michelle Wu (@wutrain.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T19:48:54.773Z
Kansas City. No Kings.
- Jess Piper (@piperformissouri.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T21:07:44.730Z
Just back from No Kings here in Santa Barbara. I'd estimate about 2000 to 3000 in Alameda Park and more showing up when I left.
- Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@climatecasino.net) 2025-10-18T19:44:33.874Z
No Kings rally in The Villages, FL. Estimated 3-4,000 peaceful protesters in the Northern section. There was also a rally in the Southern end.
An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago
- Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T21:18:30.996Z
Huge crowd at the No Kings rally in Bethlehem, PA, which is located in the swingiest county in the swingiest state in the nation.
- Julie Roginsky (@julieroginsky.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T19:24:44.864Z
World War 2 veterans, the original antifa, took part in the nationwide protests against the fascist Trump regime. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood
- Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) 2025-10-19T00:50:02.242Z
Thousands of protestors gather at the Iowa State Capitol for No Kings Des Moines.
- Iowa Starting Line (@iowastartingline.com) 2025-10-18T19:45:50.058Z
Provincetown has a year-round population of 3600.I'm guessing there were at least 1000 at No Kings today.Sorry I managed not to get the people in the inflatable lobster suits!
- Tamar Haspel (@tamarhaspel.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T20:49:45.689Z
This is what democracy looks like."This is what America looks like." NYC
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T21:01:05.111Z
Protestors march through downtown Montgomery, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2025 holding a banner saying "No Kings In America." The protest drew more than 600 people. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)
- Alabama Reflector (@alabamareflector.com) 2025-10-18T18:40:07.457Z
No Kings, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T19:40:17.796Z
No Kings Day Ithaca, NY
NO KINGS PROTESTAlbuquerque, New Mexico#ABQ#NoKingsABQ#Albuquerque#NewMexico#NoKingsAlbuquerque#nokings
California Dreamin' of No Kings in San Diego.
- Hoodlum
(@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T20:09:18.869Z
No Kings Denver speaker Joe Salazar (fmr Dem state rep) tells me they estimate 25-30k gathered in Denver today, similar to the No Kings protest earlier this year. This view is from photographer Cheney Orr for the New York Times. #copolitics
I repeat myself: this is a town of 6000 people in Waldo County, Maine
- Rebecca Spang (@rlspang.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T20:09:58.018Z
Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings
- Hoodlum
#NoKings, Madison WI
- Ben Wikler (@benwikler.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T20:32:42.924Z
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).
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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."