A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator

Ellsworth Toohey· Jul 30, 2026 · 12:16 PM UTC ·2 min read · 0 reactions · 0 comments · 1 view

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A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator Ellsworth Toohey 5:16 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Gerald Casale Trump video — Screenshot via YouTube / Gerald V. Casale DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. Casale scripted the video with Italian artist Max Papeschi and animator Maurizio Temporin, and co-wrote the song with Czech composer Moimir Papalescu, with DEVO's Josh Hager and Jeff Friedl on guitar and drums.

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▪A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator Ellsworth Toohey 5:16 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Gerald Casale Trump video — Screenshot via YouTube / Gerald V.
▪Casale DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump.
▪Casale scripted the video with Italian artist Max Papeschi and animator Maurizio Temporin, and co-wrote the song with Czech composer Moimir Papalescu, with DEVO's Josh Hager and Jeff Friedl on guitar and drums.

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A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator Ellsworth Toohey 5:16 am Thu Jul 30, 2026 Gerald Casale Trump video — Screenshot via YouTube / Gerald V. Casale DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. In "Just Do It!," Casale turns Trump into a cartoon dictator marching a MAGA zombie army through the collapse of American democracy, smashing the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer, watching the Statue of Liberty crumble, and running down protesters in an ambulance marked "Freedom." Jeffrey Epstein's face fills the Teletubbies sun while Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and Steve Bannon play the Teletubbies themselves.

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