For the second time this year, protestors came out in force across the nation over the weekend to object authoritarian tactics by the Trump administration. While the second round of “No Kings” protests raised opposition to the administration’s erosion of democratic and legal norms. In typical fashion, the responses from Trump and those around him have been crass and dismissive.

Trump, Vance mock protests with crude videos

Trump posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown and dumping shit from a “King Trump” jet on No Kings protesters.This is where we are as a country. pic.twitter.com/rnzUkJ4C4K— PatriotTakes (@patriottakes) October 19, 2025

Both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance responded to the latest “No Kings” protests with online mockery through social media. Trump posted an AI-generated video to his Truth Social account on Saturday evening. In the video, Trump, wearing a large golden crown on his head and in a fighter pilot’s uniform, flies a jet labeled “King Trump” over a crowd of protestors. As per @PatriotTakes on X, in the video, “Trump posted an AI video of himself wearing a crown and dumping shit from a ‘King Trump’ jet on No Kings protesters.”

Vance similarly trolled the administration’s detractors with an AI-generated video he posted on Bluesky, a social media platform popular with liberal audiences. In Vance’s video, Trump puts on a crown and robe before pulling out a sword, as the video pans to show prominent Democrats like former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi kneeling before him. The images of the Democratic lawmakers, who are wearing Kente cloth scarves, appears to be a play on a moment in which Pelosi and other members of Congress kneeled in commemoration of lost Black lives amid the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd. It is reminiscent of a recent racist AI-generated video Trump posted of Democratic congressional leaders.

— JD Vance (@jd-vance-1.bsky.social) 2025-10-18T19:32:39.050Z

‘King’ accusation appears to rattle Trump

The video responses to Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies, in which millions of people came out across all 50 states to protest the administration, similar to the first nationwide “No Kings” protests that occurred in June as Trump held a massive military parade that coincided with his birthday, seem to mock, or perhaps embrace, the charge that Trump is attempting to be a king. The president appears to have let the accusation get under his skin.

“They say they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” Trump commented before the protests.

By Sunday, however, he was more combative concerning the rallies, dismissing the protests as “a joke” and “not representative of this country,” blaming “radical left lunatics” for the protests.

“I’m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That’s all it is. I’m not a king at all,” Trump added, seemingly annoyed by the protests.

Trump: "I'm not a king. I work my ass off.” pic.twitter.com/s9J8VDRqwQ— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) October 20, 2025

Growing authoritarian tendencies under second Trump term

Concerns that Trump is acting more as a king than a president have grown over the course of his second term in office. Trump has continued to mobilize the U.S. military against American citizens, sending National Guard forces and other troops into various U.S. cities, often over the objections of local and state leaders. Trump has also conducted controversial and possibly illegal strikes against suspected drug smugglers in international waters. Domestically and internationally, Trump and his advisors have used the stated goals of fighting drug smuggling, illegal immigration, ‘insurrection‘ and other crimes to expand presidential power, with top Trump advisor Stephen Miller recently suggesting that the president has unlimited ‘plenary’ authority in such matters. Trump has additionally used the judiciary to investigate and prosecute his political foes based on dubious legal charges.

Together, these actions have created a disturbing pattern by which Trump has asserted wide-reaching power in ways that defy American political norms and possibly the law. As millions of Americans respond to these growing threats to democracy and rule of law, Trump appears uncertain how to react to this opposition, resorting to juvenile social media retorts and angry comments. With no sign that the administration’s authoritarian policies will soon end, more pushback is to be expected from concerned and outraged citizens.
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