Hacked AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet plays at HUD headquarters, giving prescient view of country's mood.

Hackers played an AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet at HUD headquarters, giving an interesting, but somewhat accurate view of how some Americans see the relationship between the two.

It's a shame how this incident isn't getting as much attention as it should. I would love to see a member of the press be brave enough to ask Trump about it.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM

From The HuffPost: 

Staffers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development arrived at work Monday to an AI-rendered video of President Donald Trump aggressively licking Elon Musk’s feet playing nonstop on every television throughout the building. The video played on a loop for around five minutes while employees frantically unplugged the TVs. 

 HUD spokesperson Kasey Lovett confirmed the clip did play at HUD in an email to HuffPost and called it “another waste of taxpayer dollars and resources.” Lovett also pledged that “appropriate action will be taken for all involved.” While HUD removed the video immediately, copies of the clip obtained by independent reporter Marisa Kabas went viral on BlueSky, as did other videos filmed elsewhere in the building. 

The roughly 5-second clip shows Trump rubbing Musk’s feet and sucking on the multibillionaire’s toes while Musk smiles approvingly in the background. 

Some would say that the video is an apt depiction of what's going on with billionaire Elon Musk attempting to exert power over government agencies (with Trump's affirmation) even though no one elected him to do anything. Through his DOGE committee, Musk has wreaked an ill wind of chaos throughout the country via sloppy mass firings of federal workers and eliminating much needed government offices and services. This has led many to question just who is in charge at the White House? Trump or Musk?

The video also reflects a growing feeling of anger across the country - as seen in various town hall meetings - of voters giving their Republican representatives hell for giving no pushback to Musk.

 Particularly when it looks like he will now be targeting Medicaid.

A few ways the LGBTQ community is fighting back against Donald Trump's attempted erasure of trans people and history

It is looking like after an initial shock with how Donald Trump is targeting trans Americans, the LGBTQ community and our allies are fighting back.  The following are just a few of the many fights across the nation against Trump's bigotry.

From The Advocate on Friday:

The LGBTQ+ community is continuing to challenge the Trump administration’s latest executive orders targeting LGBTQ+ rights in court. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and several other California advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint, brought in partnership with Lambda Legal, argues that the orders violate the First and Fifth Amendments and unlawfully threaten the existence of programs that provide life-saving services to marginalized communities. 

 “These executive orders aren’t just policy shifts; they are existential threats to our mission,” said Dr. Tyler TerMeer, CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, a lead plaintiff in the case, in an interview with The Advocate on Friday. “They dismantle decades of progress, undermine public trust, and directly endanger the lives of the communities we serve.” 

 At issue are orders signed by President Donald Trump that erase federal recognition of transgender and nonbinary people, gut diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and strip funding from organizations that serve LGBTQ+ communities and people of color. The administration has instructed federal agencies to defund organizations that “promote gender ideology” and to rescind DEI-based grants, moves that civil rights groups say amount to censorship and discrimination.

And that came a week after a huge protest near the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument. According to CNN: 

 After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters filled nearby Christopher Park Friday with a simple message: “You can’t erase us.”  The message was scrawled in chalk on the pavement surrounding the park and reflected on the posters demonstrators waved and in the messages from speakers. 

 “The trans and drag community have always been part of the LGBTQ community,” Steven Love Menendez, a longtime volunteer at the Stonewall Monument, told CNN Friday. “So now for the federal government to try to erase trans from our community makes absolutely no sense.” 

 Protesters waving trans and rainbow flags and holding banners with messages like “Silence = Death” – a consciousness-raising slogan from the AIDS crisis – and “Erasure is Annihilation” filled the park Friday, spilling out onto the surrounding street. The word “transgender” also appeared written in chalk on the National Parks Service’s “Stonewall National Monument” sign outside Christopher Park. 

 The demonstration comes after the term “LGBTQ+” was shortened to “LGB” on the NPS web page late this week, according to an archived version of the page. There are no more references to transgender people on the web page – despite what activists and historians say were trans activists’ key contributions to the Stonewall Uprising and the larger LGBTQ rights movement. 

The event included government officials and Congressional leaders such as Rep. Jerry Nadler and New York City Council member Erik Bottcher  

And on Feb 14, a federal judge temporarily paused Trump's executive order banning federal support of gender-affirming care for trans youth.  This has led to several hospitals across the country either resuming or refusing cease giving gender-affirming care for trans youth, including the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The University of Virginia’s hospital, the Children’s Hospital Colorado, the Prisma Community Care in Phoenix.

We have a long road ahead and there will be many victories and defeats. However, take comfort in the fact that the LGBTQ community isn't going to take Trump's actions laying down. You come after one of us, then you will deal with all of us.

'New Health & Human Services head RFK, Jr continuing Trump's war on transgender Americans' & other Thur/Fri news briefs

HHS secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr

Trump’s Health and Human Services Department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans government website featuring right-wing influencer​ - Regardless how you feel about trans issues - I for one support trans equality - this targeting of trans Americans by Trump and members of his cabinet (particularly RFK, Jr in this case) is completely beyond the pale. And spare me any bullshit about how trans Americans brought it on themselves. That has been the excuse for every campaign of terrorism and scapegoating in history. Speaking of history, we all know how past campaigns of vilification against groups of people have ended. And there is always has-been, never-was profiting from it. In this case, it's fifth place loser Riley Gaines. 

 LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders - And it's not just about trans people. They want to generally erase all of us.

LGBTQ+ & Black rights groups sue Trump over “vague” “discriminatory” DEI orders - Meanwhile, Lambda Legal and the NAACP are teaming up to take down Trump's bigoted executive orders. 

Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds - Look at that. Our numbers increased.

More Hospitals Resume Trans Care After Trump's EO Temporarily Blocked In Court [AZ, VA] - More good news. 

Lesbian judge tears apart Trump’s ‘ridiculous’ anti-trans orders and leaves lawyer red-faced - She left no crumbs but watch out. If she does rule against it, expect the right-wing ecosystem to go after her. They've already started. 

"Intellectually and Morally Indefensible": Montana Court Blocks Trans-Exclusionary Law Defining Sex - Meanwhile, another court torches Montana's transphobic law.

Trump, Republicans, Social Security and . . . transgender drag queens?

This is completely tongue-in-cheek, but the sad thing is probably how many of you will probably beg me not to give Trump and the Republicans any ideas.

 And how it might be a good idea to take your request seriously.

Republicans are brazen enough to cut Social Security while distracting y'all with hysteria about transgender drag queens from Mars infiltrating schools to use bathrooms and compete in female sports while teaching little girls to hate men and performing surgery on little boys. pic.twitter.com/KVy05vzQ40

— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) February 18, 2025

Second judge pauses Trump's EO against gender-affirming care for trans kids

It's been my experience that the Trump Administration's strikes against the LGBTQ community are announced with much fanfare, but when they collapse in the face of court rulings, folks don't seem to be paying that much attention. We saw this in his first term when three judges struck down his administration's attempt to create a "healthcare conscience rule" which would have been used to deny LGBTQ Americans adequate healthcare. 

And we are seeing it now with his executive order banning federal support of gender-affirming care for trans youth. 

From the Associated Press two days ago:

A second federal judge on Friday paused President Donald Trump’s executive order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19. U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King granted a temporary restraining order after the Democratic attorneys general of Washington state, Oregon and Minnesota sued the Trump administration last week. Three doctors joined as plaintiffs in the suit, which was filed in the Western District of Washington. 

 The decision came one day after a federal judge in Baltimore temporarily blocked the executive order in response to a separate lawsuit filed on behalf of families with transgender or nonbinary children. Judge Brendan Hurson’s temporary restraining order will last 14 days but could be extended and essentially puts Trump’s directive on hold while the case proceeds. Hurston and King were both appointed by former President Joe Biden.

 Trump signed an executive order last month halting federal funding for institutions that provide the care and directing federally run insurance programs, including Medicaid and TRICARE for military families, to exclude coverage for it. The order also calls on the Department of Justice to pursue litigation and legislation to oppose it. 

 From CBS News: 

 The president's directive, issued in his first week in office, threatens research and education grants awarded to medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to patients under the age of 19. Treatments covered by the order include puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical procedures. The Democrat-led states that sued the Trump administration over the order said it deprives transgender youth of life-saving medical care. They called it a "cruel and baseless broadside against transgender youth, their families, and the doctors and medical institutions that provide them this critical care." 

 "It is an official statement of bigotry from the president that directs agencies to openly discriminate against vulnerable youth on the basis of their transgender status and sex," state officials wrote in their lawsuit. "It is also a blatant abuse of power. The order usurps spending and legislative powers belonging exclusively to Congress, and seizes the States' historic police powers to regulate the practice of medicine in violation of the Tenth Amendment."

'New Jersey Court rules against forced outing policies' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

In Major Win For Trans Students, New Jersey Court Rules Against Forced Outing Policies​ - From Erin Reed, a major victory for trans students as well as LGBQ students.

'I just want to go to school like other kids': NH high school trans athletes sue Trump - Good luck! I hope they win.

Indiana State University sued for blocking LGBTQ+ Pride festival - Good! Sue and win!

Why “LGBTQ Isn’t for Kids” Is a Dangerous Narrative - This is a sad fact which needs to be amplified. 

Trump’s Department of Education wants NCAA to strip awards, records from trans student-athletes - There simply is no reason for this. It's a mean-spirited distraction from what Trump and Republicans are actually doing - pilfering your money for their tax cuts. 

Federal health agencies restore webpages and datasets following judge's order - Another victory.

Rep. Robert Garcia has “zero interest” in working with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - Yes! Being petty is a gay superpower. Use it!

Video - A brief timeline of Black Gay History in America

     

Folks, it doesn't matter what Donald Trump, or any conservative Republican says. It doesn't matter what any right-wing fool with a Twitter address says.  And (I'm going to have to go there), the same goes for certain gay white men who try to omit LGBTQ people of color out of history. 

Black history and LGBTQ identity are not two separate entities. The two have intertwined several times throughout history and this country is much better for it. No law, executive order, or silly collegiate argument can erase what's in the blood of America. 

That's us.