Trump's Hypocritical Projection Caught In Damning Video

When it comes to Donald Trump, it's always safe to assume that every accusation is hiding an admission.
Trump's Hypocritical Projection Caught In Damning Video
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By Andrea Thompson — September 8, 2026

President Donald Trump managed to once again put his own hypocrisy and projection on full display when he took to his Truth Social echo chamber with a montage video that attempted to compare his behavior to that of other notable political figures in America and around the world, with particular focus on incidents in which others failed to properly salute military members.

The video, bizarrely set to Christina Perri's song, "A Thousand Years," takes aim at the likes of US Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, as well as other world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and King Charles, showing out-of-context incidents meant to make them look bad before switching into numerous flattering clips of Donald Trump labeled as "the side of Trump the media doesn't show you."

But as is customary with pretty much every accusation coming from Donald Trump, it seems that the president is only projecting his own failures onto the people he envies the most, after Call To Activism busted him doing the exact same thing he's trashing others for, just 30 minutes or so before he posted his cute little video compilation.

The Call To Activism X account posted a 13-second clip of President Trump stepping off Marine One, but not before he appeared to spend several seconds going off on the pilot for God knows what. He's then seen descending the stairs, fumbling with his jacket, and blowing straight past the Marines standing before him -- not a single salute in sight:

A few hours later, Call To Activism followed up with a screen capture of Trump's weird, self-exalting diss video and pointed out the hypocritical irony, writing in the caption, "as part of his raging Truth Social rampage, Trump posted a montage attacking others for not saluting Marines. Turns out it dropped 30 mins after he blew past one himself. He always projects what he's guilty of," adding, "We CAUGHT you on tape, Donald."

Perhaps we shouldn't point fingers with unclean hands, Donald. It's not a good look.

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