I want to show you two very different totally incredible um expressions of protest in our time uh the first one depends on nature on an annual natural event that's called Firefall look at that um every February the way the sunset hits this waterfall at the top of the rock formation called El Capitan in in Yos national park it creates a like surreal orange glowing effect almost like the waterfall is made of Fire um Firefall at Yus is a really big tourist attraction like on a on a geologic scale thousands of people camp out to look
up at this exact spot where the February Sun hits the waterfall in just this way well it's now February and Firefall is on and on Saturday this weekend a group of ybody Park employees made it the site of a peaceful but dramatic protest uh they climbed to the top of this 3,000 foot rock formation um and they hung an American flag upside down which in US flag code is the symbol of dire distress uh the Park employee Who provided the flag told the San Francisco Chronicle the point was to bring attention to what is happening
to the parks uh by which he means that the Trump Administration indiscriminately cutting huge numbers of jobs in the national parks about a thousand so far enough to raise questions about how well the parks can function not to mention potentially opening up public lands as widely as they can to Drilling and Mining upside down American flag in in yosee that just an incredible expression of protest that's number one the second example happened today all the way across the country at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington DC where senior level managers at HUD
have been told to expect half of their staff to be fired now I should tell you that what I'm about to show you is super gross really gross gross so if you would like to turn away now is your chance okay uh throughout the DC headquarters for the Department of Housing and Urban Development um there are internal TV monitors the kind that uh you know might show you what's for lunch in the cafeteria or whatever but instead today when when employees showed up for work the first day everybody was expected to be back in the
office fulltime instead on those monitors they saw this a faky fake video of President Trump passionately kissing the feet of Elon Musk with the text long live the real King superimposed over it what appeared on those internal TVs at HUD today needs to not exist in nature and thank heavens it does not uh from our own very helpful internal Network guidance on this quote our editorial teams indicate this video appears to be AI generated and fake yes yes thank you Jesus the video does have telltale signs of being fake if you look closely which I
don't recommend you might notice for example that Elon Musk is depicted as having two left feet we ourselves have not seen Mr musk's feet but the ones on screen at HUD today do look like fictional feet NBC News has reached out to the White House for comment we will keep you posted but from the tops of the mountains to to the bottoms of the president's top donor's fake feet Americans are getting creative in their push back creative and Unforgettable
