An AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s bare feet played on monitors the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk prepare to bring their next round of arbitrary cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it seems like at least one employee is making their displeasure known. On Monday morning, the first day of the Trump administration’s “return to office” ban on remote work, employees at HUD were greeted by a feat of digital protest — or a “foot” of one.

According to videos and photos circulated on social media, televisions at HUD’s central office in Washington, D.C., were hijacked to play an AI-generated video of Trump making sweet, sloppy oral love to Musk’s bare feet. The words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING” were emblazoned over the visual, likely a reference to recent posts from Trump and the White House describing the president as “the king.”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBH9TmeJN_M

    We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically-affected. We want — when they wake up in the morning, we want them not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

    — Russ Vought, current head of OPM (the federal government’s “HR office”), in a 2023 talk

    I’d say that he’s probably successfully managed to get the “harming morale” part down, at any rate.