By Matt Novak
President Donald Trump posted some new videos to Truth Social late Thursday, continuing his tradition of pushing out the most bizarre content ever distributed by a U.S. president. One of the videos was AI-generated and features OMB Director Russ Vought as the Grim Reaper… and President Trump playing a cowbell.
The video, posted around 10:40 p.m. ET, is set to a parody version of Blue Öyster Cult’s 1976 hit song “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and opens with a stormy rendering of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., including figures draped in long black robes.
One of the figures is revealed to be President Trump, hitting a cowbell that doesn’t sync to the music in any way, while another is Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was a key architect of Project 2025, the conservative plan to gut the federal government, which Trump and his allies tried to pretend wasn’t actually Trump’s plan during the 2024 presidential campaign.
“Now their time has come. Here, the power’s gone,” the song opens with a shot of the Capitol. “Russ Vought is the Reaper. He wields the pen, the funds and the brain.”
Trump just posted an AI-generated video depicting Russ Vought as the grim reaper, set to Don’t Fear the Reaper
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) October 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The song goes on, describing Democrats as “babies” and showing Vought as the man who will make devastating cuts to the federal workforce. Two sombreros also appear, something that’s become a bit of a meme on the racist right.
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