'What are we doing here?' CNN panelist slams Trump's latest 'affront to democracy'

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 theytook time out of their lives todo that, and then they have the President of United Statesfiguratively crap on them forexpressing their right to freespeech, is an affront todemocracy," Boykin said. "It's not onlyjuvenile and immature, it's areflection of where we are as acountry 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 itwas okay for for 20-year-oldsand 30-year-olds to make racistcomments about Nazis and stufflike that, but now we have thepresidentliterally attacking a23-year-old Harry Sisson, dumping crap on him, and that'sokay, because that's fair game," Boykin said, "But, when the Republicans are doing it andthey're calling each other Nazis, they're just kids. Thisis just a reflection of thehypocrisy of the republicanparty."