TVs at HUD Changed to Display Video of Trump Kissing Elon Musk’s Feet: ‘THE REAL KING’
Screenshot via X.
Federal workers showing up to the Housing and Urban Development federal building Monday morning were greeted by a video — presumably created by AI or some other type of fakery — on the television screens along the corridors showing President Donald Trump kissing and caressing DOGE chief Elon Musk’s feet, along with a message, “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”
Reporters tweeted photos and videos of the strange video on Musk’s social media platform X. “Someone apparently hacked the televisions at HUD today,” wrote The Washington Post’s White House economics reporter Jeff Stein.
Rachel Leah Siegel, who covers housing issues for the Post, also posted images of the HUD television screens that she said were sent to her “[f]rom multiple people inside HUD headquarters in DC.” In a follow up tweet, she noted that it was “playing on tvs across the building.”
A HUD spokesperson told Siegel, “Another waste of taxpayer dollars and resources. Appropriate action will be taken for all involved.”
Vox reporter Rachel Cohen similarly posted a video clip that she tweeted was sent to her by a “source” at HUD.
The original video clip seems to have been previously posted online, as in this tweet from earlier this month.
It is not yet known if the HUD televisions were changed by a hacker, a disgruntled HUD employee, or another critic of Trump and Musk.
Last week, the president posted on Truth Social “LONG LIVE THE KING!” in a post taking credit for ending congestion traffic pricing in Manhattan, a quote that was controversially tweeted by the official White House account along with an image of a magazine cover with Trump wearing a golden crown. Employees all across the federal workforce have been voicing their anger as Musk’s DOGE team has pushed for widespread layoffs. One of the latest points of friction was an email Musk directed to be sent out to all federal employees from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), demanding that they reply by 11:59 pm ET Monday evening with five bullet points describing what they accomplished last week.
