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TVs at HUD Played an AI-Generated Video of Donald Trump Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet


On Monday morning, TV sets at the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development played the seemingly AI-generated video on loop, along with the words “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

Federal employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were greeted this morning by television sets at the agency’s Washington, DC headquarters playing what appears to be an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kissing the feet of Elon Musk, accompanied by the words: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.” A person at HUD headquarters on Monday morning shared a video with WIRED showing the scene playing out on a loop on a TV screen inside the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building. “We’ve decided internally to start notifying our grantees—every mayor, county head, governor, nonprofit CEO, and congressional earmark recipient—that they should anticipate a loss or significant unpredictable delay in funding,” a current HUD employee tells WIRED.

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