No Kings, NYT

[The New York Times, National Edition, October 19, 2025. Click for a larger view.]

Short shrift on the front page of The New York Times : the story of yesterday’s protest doesn’t even make it above the fold. The story itself appears on page 22. The front page of the City Edition gives No Kings the same short shrift (story on page 23), with photographs from Golden, Colorado and Boise, Idaho replacing the ones from Arlington National Cemetery and New York City seen here. Was someone confused about which photographs were to appear in which edition?

The front page of the International Edition has nothing about No Kings, though as you probably already know, there were No Kings gatherings yesterday in many other countries.

The paper’s coverage of the current occupant’s recent air journey is oh so tactfully addressed. The headline:

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters

The full story begins to leak in the subhead:

President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

And then in the article itself, something closer to the truth gushes out:

The fake video, set to the song “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins, shows the plane dropping a brown liquid resembling feces onto the heads of protesters, who appeared to be gathered in a city.

“A brown liquid resembling feces”? Really? Must we hedge?

And it’s not the plane that’s dropping “a brown liquid resembling feces” on the heads of protesters (who are, yes, gathered in a virtual city). It’s the current occupant who is dropping shit on us all.