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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    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.

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    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?

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

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    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”!!!

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      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.
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      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.

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      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

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        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)

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        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…

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

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

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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

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

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          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.

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            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.

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        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.