
President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday to share a music video celebrating himself and the global 'love' he inspires – a video that one journalist called "deranged" and prompted onlookers to wonder aloud how such behavior from a sitting U.S. president had ever become “normalized.”
The song featured in the music video is simply titled “Trump,” and was written and performed by GOP congressional candidate Anthony Constantino, who scored Trump’s endorsement in April. The video, which appears to have been created using generative artificial intelligence, depicts Trump globe trotting, and the lyrics insist that people the world over “love” Trump.
“Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, everywhere I go, they love Donald, Donald Trump,” the lyrics of the song read.
Award-winning author Jennifer Erin Valent expressed concern that such a social media post – one from a sitting U.S. president – barely drew attention from news outlets.
“Even worse than knowing my morning scroll will bring more insanity from the president is knowing it will barely even be news in a country that has largely decided to normalize that insanity,” Valent wrote Saturday in a social media post on X.
Bill Sweetman, an aerospace and defense writer and analyst, came to a similar conclusion: “The worst of this is that it seems normal,” he wrote in a social media post on X.
For Kevin Murphy, an Irish political activist and candidate for office, Trump’s social media post was a warning for something far more dire.
“He can't access the nukes, right?” Murphy quipped in a social media post on X.