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MAGA influencer Benny Johnson received a wave of mockery Tuesday for a video he posted from Portland, Oregon that praised Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for the way she “stare[d] down [an] army of Antifa” that was shown in the video to be about a dozen reporters and protesters, including one guy in a chicken costume.
Johnson, who has cheerfully profited as he’s promoted many a right-wing cause célèbre and conspiracy theory over the years, recently accompanied Noem as ICE conducted raids in Chicago, posting an AI-generated video portraying himself dressed as Batman beating up people in stereotypical Mexican garb in a Walmart parking lot.
He deleted that video at some point after the fierce backlash it received, but followed up with another video dispatch with Noem from the rooftop of an ICE building in Portland.
“BREAKING: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stares down army of Antifa and a guy in a chicken suit from the rooftop of the ICE facility here in Portland,” wrote Johnson.
“Noem isn’t chicken,” Johnson added along with a baby chick emoji.
The video he posted, however, quickly drew responses questioning how he was defining “army,” since what the clip actually showed was two small groups of people standing down on the ground below that seemed to be mostly reporters with cameras, a single digit number of protesters holding up posters, and one guy in a chicken costume.
As Noem looks down, Johnson zooms in with his camera to show the people below, shouting mostly indistinguishable things up at the rooftop group, plus one man who had a megaphone and invited Noem to “come on down, I got a Subway sandwich for ya! Woo!”
“No dogs here! Woof woof woof WOOF!” the megaphone guy added, referring to Noem’s admission in her book that she had shot and killed a puppy named Cricket after deeming her “untrainable” and “less than worthless.”
“Uh, Secretary, do you have a message to the protesters, especially the man in the chicken outfit?” Johnson asked Noem.
Noem remarked that she had just noticed the guy in the chicken suit, said “he could do better,” and disparaged the protesters as “uneducated and ill-informed;” she did acknowledge that they were “peaceful.”
The response to Johnson’s tweet, especially calling the two small groups of people standing far below an Antifa “army” drew vicious mockery.
“You are afraid of a chicken and a dozen people,” wrote one commenter (translated into English via Grok).
A sampling of additional reactions is below.
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