(This article has been republished from the author's substack with express permission.) The Spectacle of Cruelty Recently, an AI-generated video circulated online showing a crowned Donald Trump flying a fighter jet and dropping what appeared to be feces on protesters, including a well-known liberal influencer. Trump himself reposted it—cementing it not only on social media, but in the official Presidential Record ( source ) (a topic for another day, under “Digital Footprint”