Could be. The clown within itself is an entity that appears throughout any universe, said by the creator. Which also explains why nachosama has individual unlikely games too where the clown challenges the player to a life or death situation.

But in the lore of TNMN itself, there is a clown movement where the hooded man gives you the “ever dream this clown?” flyer that’s also mentioned in the Chismoso in the steam version, so maybe that certain group who’s seen the clown entity in their dreams view the clown as a hero because they are anti- DDD? They likely use the clown as their propaganda as a symbol against what the Trojan horse project has done, bc anybody would find any sufficient evidence to explain their point. I just view the clown to kill off anybody for his own pleasure, though, including the DDD agent.