If you weren’t part of the various “No Kings” protests happening around the country this weekend, you probably still saw that people all across America were gathering to protest President Donald Trump’s continued attempts to push the U.S. into fascism under his reign. Trump, who has seemingly abandoned any efforts to obscure his fascist agenda, posted a since-deleted AI-generated video on his Truth Social account on Saturday, October 18, that showed him flying a plane over crowds of No Kings protestors and dumping literal shit on them. The video was made by an X user, then shared by the president on Truth. The plane has “King Trump” painted on the side, shows the guy wearing a crown, and is set to Kenny Loggins’ iconic ‘80s rock song “Danger Zone.” Today, Loggins has disavowed the whole thing.
President Trump makes a quick appearance at the No Kings Protest 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/DBVIwbJL1E
— 𝕏erias (@xerias_x) October 18, 2025
The 77-year-old rocker released a statement on his website saying that the Top Gun song was used without his permission or knowledge. Yeah, usually people on social media don’t reach out to ask for permission to use licensed music in some video clip, but it’s different when a very powerful politician shares such a clip to promote himself and insult his political opponents. It’s hardly a first for Trump, though, who has used so much music without permission over the course of his political career that there’s a whole Wikipedia article listing artists who have publicly denounced the administration’s use of their music. Now, we can add Loggins to that list.
This is an unauthorized use of my performance of ‘Danger Zone.’ Nobody asked me for my permission, which I would have denied, and I request that my recording on this video is removed immediately.
I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart, and we need to find new ways to come together. We’re all Americans, and we’re all patriotic. There is no ‘us and them’ – that’s not who we are, nor is it what we should be. It’s all of us. We’re in this together, and it is my hope that we can embrace music as a way of celebrating and uniting each and every one of us.
As 404 Media points out, a lot of news outlets are hesitant to call the video what it is: Trump dropping shit on American protesters who are exercising their First Amendment rights. But we’re now at the point where political warfare is being waged in memes and shitposts, so maybe we should be frank about what these videos are saying, instead of trying to maintain some kind of outdated decorum in which we refuse to call literal shitslinging what it is.
