Author and CNN panelist Keith Boykin slammed President Donald Trump's latest "affront to democracy" during CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" on Monday.
Boykin and former George W. Bush administration spokesman Pete Seat clashed over the significance of an AI-generated video Trump posted ahead of the "No King's" protests last weekend that drew 7 million people nationwide. In the video, Trump can be seen flying a fighter jet named "King Trump" and the jet drops excrement on protesters in several cities, including Democratic influencer Harry Sisson in New York City.
Biykin argued that the video represented an "affront to democracy."
"People have busy lives, and they took time out of their lives to do that, and then they have the President of United States figuratively crap on them for expressing their right to free speech, is an affront to democracy," Boykin said. "It's not only juvenile and immature, it's a reflection of where we are as a country today."
He added that the hesitance of Republicans to criticize Trump for posting the videos speaks volumes about their party.
"Last week they were saying it was okay for for 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds to make racist comments about Nazis and stuff like that, but now we have the president literally attacking a 23-year-old Harry Sisson, dumping crap on him, and that's okay, because that's fair game," Boykin said, "But, when the Republicans are doing it and they're calling each other Nazis, they're just kids. This is just a reflection of the hypocrisy of the republican party."