Khanna mocks – Rep. Ro Khanna mocked President Donald Trump’s apparently AI-generated attack image with a sharp apology to Donald Trump Jr. before returning to Fox News again Sunday, despite Trump’s earlier demand that the network keep him off the air.
For the second day in a row, Rep. Ro Khanna walked the tightrope between ridicule and retaliation after President Donald Trump posted what appeared to be an AI-generated image of him—one that turned up fast, then detonated in public.
On Saturday, Khanna appeared on Fox News. Soon after, Trump posted an angry demand that the network keep Khanna off the air. The reason was the bizarre AI-looking image Trump shared: it showed Khanna as a wolf wearing a bloody sheepskin, holding a sheep and money.
Khanna didn’t ignore it. He shared the image as well and added what he framed as an apology to Donald Trump Jr.—one of the president’s three sons—who was married over the weekend. Trump did not attend the wedding. Instead. he had said last week he had to deal with “Iran and other things.” In Khanna’s retelling. those “other things” included firing off that post about Khanna.
“Congratulations on your wedding @DonaldJTrumpJr,” Khanna wrote. “Sorry for distracting your Dad with this important work.”
Khanna then escalated in video form, posting on TikTok and Instagram. “I guess we now know why he isn’t going to his son Donald Jr.’s wedding: He’s too busy posting AI attacks on political opponents like me. ” he said. He added that Trump’s anger traced back to Khanna’s appearances on Fox News. where he said he had called out Trump over the “Epstein class and the economy that is broken and shafting working Americans.”.
That thread matters because Khanna’s criticism isn’t new. He is one of the leaders in the push in Congress to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. That effort ultimately resulted in a law being signed—but critics say the Justice Department still hasn’t released all the files as required. Khanna pledged to keep pushing.
“Well, let me tell you something: I’m not afraid of Donald Trump,” he said. “I’m gonna keep going on Fox News and calling him out.”
Trump’s response to that defiance was immediate and personal: he demanded Fox keep Khanna off the air after the Saturday appearance. Yet Sunday brought a different scene—Khanna appeared on Fox News again anyway, despite the president’s request.
The sequence is hard to miss: Khanna appears on air, Trump posts an AI-styled attack image, then Khanna turns the moment into a pointed message about the wedding Trump skipped—before returning to the same platform where the president tried to cut him off.
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