Mike Johnson says Trump 'uses social media to make a point' over POTUS' bizarre 'No Kings' post

WASHINGTON, DC: House Speaker Mike Johnson came to President Donald Trump’s defense on Monday after the latter posted a bizarre AI video showing him wearing a crown and bombing protesters with what looked like liquid feces from a fighter jet.

Over the weekend, Trump took to Truth Social with a clip that showed the president decked out like a monarch while piloting a fighter jet and dropping brown sludge on crowds at “No Kings” rallies nationwide. 

The rallies were meant to protest Trump’s so-called "authoritarianism" following his decision to send military and National Guard units into Democrat-led cities and his aggressive push for ICE arrests. 

Mike Johnson says Trump 'uses social media to make a point'

When the Independent pressed Johnson about Trump’s weekend video during his daily press conference amid the ongoing government shutdown, the Speaker didn’t flinch.

“The president uses social media to make a point,” Johnson said, standing alongside House leadership, Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris (R-Md), and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas). “You can argue he's probably the most effective person who's ever used social media for that. He is using satire to make a point.”

Johnson turned the heat back on the protesters, pointing out that some were caught holding signs calling for the president’s execution. “He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents,” Johnson added. “And that’s what these people are doing.”

GOP not impressed with 'No Kings' movement

More than 7 million people took to the streets over the weekend in a coast-to-coast show of dissent against Trump’s sweeping executive actions, from militarizing Democrat-led cities to tightening his grip on immigration enforcement.

Republicans weren’t impressed. In fact, they branded the entire movement a “hate America” operation.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn) used the moment to bash Senate Democrats over the shutdown stalemate.

“Now that their ‘hate America’ rally is over, I hope that at least five Senate Democrats will finally do the right and responsible thing by breaking ranks with Chuck Schumer, passing our clean CR and reopening the government,” Emmer told reporters. “If they continue to refuse, we're going to continue to hold them to account.”

The government is now limping into week three of a shutdown, all thanks to a standoff over a short-term spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR). Democrats want to tack on an extension of Covid-era enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace. Republicans, however, have zero interest in budging.

Johnson has even kept the House out of session, claiming they’ve already “done their job” by passing a clean bill. Meanwhile, Rep Harris called the Democrats’ proposed credits “corporate welfare for big, profitable health insurance companies that have already made a fortune off Obamacare.”

Chip Roy slams 'No Kings' protesters

Texas conservative Rep Chip Roy wasn’t letting the protesters off the hook either.

He cited two recent incidents from the rallies. One of them involved a Chicago teacher who was fired after miming a gun to her head during the protests. The other example was Jay Jones, a Democratic candidate for Virginia attorney general who allegedly texted threats toward Republican colleagues.

“Where are the Democrats that are crying out about how horrific that was, and by the way,” Roy said. “The truth is, we have a president. We don't have a king. We have a president who loves our country, who rightly said yesterday that he's working his ass off to make this country great.”

Johnson echoed the same line of thought. “If President Trump was a king, he would have closed the national parks on the National Mall. We couldn't have had the rally out here, by the way,” he insisted.

The Senate is set to reconvene later Monday to once again vote on the continuing resolution to reopen the government. But as of now, there’s little sign that any votes will change.

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