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submitted 1 year ago by imvii@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

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.”

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[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

🤣 😂 🤣 😂

More of this!!

Good job HUD employee...!!

👏 👏

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 81 points 1 year 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 points 1 year 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.dev 23 points 1 year 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 points 1 year 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

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Finally, a productive use for AI

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Are we sure it was AI? Not just "allegedly" AI?

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

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

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I haven't seen him without shoes on. ¯\(ツ)

[-] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago

Asking the big questions: why doesn't he walk around barefoot or in flip flops?

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 points 1 year 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 3 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking about getting metal legs. It's a risky operation, but it'll be worth it...

[-] tal@lemmy.today 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

This particular nazi is fucking evil.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 year ago

Honestly before you told me who said the quote, I was on board

/s but not really

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hooray for coal!

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Now we need one showing Musk kissing Putin's butt.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

The man wants to become meme? Then give it to him.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Putin sitting on Musk's face while Donald slops on his feet.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Putin-In bent over, Eyawn first, then T-Rump coming up last with his Jr. trying to take the sloppy leftovers

SHIT CENTIPEDE!!!

[-] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

Now put it up in all government buildings and project it on the side of Tesla dealerships and factories

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year 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?

[-] JollyBrancher@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social/post/3liwlwvvq6k2s

If it's still up. No direct video access without extensions though. More importantly, who is gonna spread that original file?

As long as it is available share with your friends, anyone you care about, and all the way down to those not even worth using the energy to consider your greatest enemies. Is there a strong enough long-distance projector to put this up against the Whitehouse?

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] imvii@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I uploaded the video to the post itself.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Now that is funny.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

plot twist:

it was musk's own interns that did it.

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that’s awesome. 🤣

[-] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a related note, I wonder whether it's actually mandatory to have that portrait of the current President hung on the wall you see in a lot of federal agencies. A lot of them do, but I don't know whether that's actually a requirement.

kagis

Looks like it isn't, that it's just a convention.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/verify/verify-are-government-agencies-required-to-display-portraits-of-current-presidents/285-572232006

VERIFY: Are government agencies required to display portraits of current presidents?

We turned to the U.S. General Services Administration, the GSA, to verify our viewer’s question. The simple answer is no, according to the Office of Strategic Communication for GSA, which is an independent agency of the U.S. government that helps manage federal agencies.

It’s response: “There is no regulation that specifies that federal agencies must display portraits of the sitting President and Vice President in the space they occupy. However, GSA displays portraits of the President and Vice President in the public areas of the buildings that GSA owns and operates, including locations leased by GSA, where the building is fully occupied by the federal government.”

I don't know if you're likely to see Trump-kissing-Musk's-feet video displays showing up en masse, but I could certainly imagine agencies removing the portrait of Trump, if there's no requirement to display it.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Wait you display the portrait of the president in government offices? Like in North Korea? HA

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Well Canada still puts the monarch up in their gov't offices.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

As someone from Romania, who had that policy as well during communist times, I can say that I find that very weird as well. It's just cult of personality and it irks me.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's pretty gross. I grew up outside D.C. and our public school system had portraits of the President and Vice President prominently displayed on either side of the wall clock at the main entrance to the school. No clue if that's still policy.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Not exactly. Usually there's one board in each building that has the whole chain of command. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/9lY058X.jpeg

That's for the military, for civilian organizations it looks similar but with people in business suits.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Something's not quite right about those feet.

[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 3 points 1 year ago

Lol, I love it.

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