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.”

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 days ago

        Unless Musk actually has two left feet, it’s AI.

        No, in the extended cut the camera pans out and Putin is sitting behind Musk, awaiting his turn.

        (PS, AI artists get to it)

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        7 days ago

        I wouldn’t put it past him to have two left feet. He seems like the kind of person that would do that. Have two left feet that is…

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    16·
    7 days ago

    So the Rolling Stone article links to xitter over and over. Stop linking your articles to a site where content can and will be edited or removed at whim.

    Anyone have a link to the video in a place other than xitter?

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    131·
    7 days ago

    Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet

    Misleading title, this is straight up toe sucking!

    And then you feel somethin’ down by your feet
    It’s me, it’s JB DT, I’m suckin’ upon your toes

    We don’t mind suckin’ on toes
    Good luck finding a boyfriend President who sucks toes

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
    112·
    7 days ago

    as someone with a raging foot fetish AND a raging hatred for Elon and that othrr guy, this makes me deeply uncomfortable, but I also immensely respect whoever pulled this off.

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    7 days ago

    I need the original video so bad because I have a projector I need to masturbate aggressively.

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    81·
    7 days ago

    In a statement, HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett said that the stunt was “another waste of taxpayer dollars and resources” and that “appropriate action will be taken for all involved.”

    I’m hearing “Pizza Party”!!!

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      27·
      7 days ago

      As a taxpayer I’ll decide what’s a waste. This is not a waste. If I could opt in 30% of my tax dollars to efforts like this, I would.

    • kn0wmad1c@programming.devEnglish
      23·
      7 days ago

      There are three things I want my taxes to go towards:

      1. Universal Healthcare coverage
      2. Daycare services for new parents
      3. Videos of Trump licking Elon’s toes played in prominent government offices.
    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
      7·
      7 days ago

      Lol I bet more tax payer dollars would be used in investigating and punishment than what was spent on the prank. Likely the video was made at home with personal funds

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    481·
    7 days 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.