The internet simply did not know what to think after footage of a woman wearing a dinosaur costume and accosting National Guard members went viral, another example of the bizarre antics of leftist agitators during the violent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles that began on June 6.
For context, a viral video shared by conservative influencer Eric Daugherty on June 8, 2025, shows a group of protesters facing down National Guardsmen, with one protester standing out from the crowd due to their bizarre outfit choice: a blue dinosaur costume. In the video, the woman wearing the dinosaur suit can be heard shouting at National Guard personnel while moving erratically, which led Daugherty to describe her as “literally shaking” and question her mental health.
In response to the video, which got hundreds of thousands of views on X, conservatives were both amused and outraged. One X user wrote, “Right to bear arms, not dinosaur arms. Straight to jail.” Another added, “These events would actually mean more if they weren’t all armed with cameras filming themselves for their own selfish attention.”
Furthermore, Eric Daugherty weighed in on the bizarre clip in the caption of his post, writing, “WTF? Somebody is verbally accosting the National Guardsmen in a dinosaur costume.” He added, “She is literally shaking. The mental health of these people is NOT OK.”
Importantly, the video was shared a day before Pentagon Chief Spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on X that the Department of Defense would be “mobilizing an additional 2,000 California National Guard to be called into federal service to support ICE & to enable federal law-enforcement officers to safely conduct their duties.” Parnell’s announcement was flooded with leftist commenters, with one X user writing, “Donald Trump has done nothing the right way. Typical MAGA.”
However, the most prominent leftist to respond to the Trump Administration’s deployment of additional troops was California Governor Gavin Newsom himself, who posted pictures of service members in Los Angeles on June 9 and wrote, “You sent your troops here without fuel, food, water, or a place to sleep. Here they are — being forced to sleep on the floor, piled on top of one another.”
Continuing his post, Newsom added, “If anyone is treating our troops disrespectfully, it is you @realDonaldTrump.” In response, thousands of commenters sounded off, with the American AF account writing, “Hook them up with a place to stay, like you do for the illegal immigrants.” Paul A. Szypula chimed in, “You imported 10 million illegals into California and are giving them free homes, health care, and handouts.”
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In addition, the controversy grew when even more conservatives called out Gov. Newsom for criticizing what some described as “totally normal” sleeping conditions for military service members, with X user Shane Connor writing, “As someone who’s transported Marines many times, this is what they do. This is what they train for. Almost every time, they sleep on the floor of the cargo jets and at the passenger terminals.”
Watch the clip of the dinosaur protester:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video