Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast



President Trump has retweeted a cartoon of a train bearing the Trump logo killing a CNN reporter, just days after a protester at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was fatally struck by a vehicle. The cartoon reads “fake news can’t stop the Trump train.” In July, Trump shared a gif of himself beating the CNN logo to a pulp. Thirty minutes after promoting the cartoon at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, it was deleted from Trump's Twitter feed.

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Trump Deletes Retweet of Meme Depicting CNN Getting Hit by a Train

by Ken Meyer | 8:11 am, August 15th, 2017

We’ve already focused on how President Trump deleted a post he retweeted this morning where someone referred to him or Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a “fascist.” However, that wasn’t the only retweet the president is trying to erase from the history of the Internet.



As you can see, Trump previously re-posted someone who put up a cartoon showing CNN getting run over by him and his team. This comes a day after the president denounced the network as “fake news” when questioned by White House correspondent Jim Acosta

Last month, Trump created major online commotion when he retweeted a meme of himself wrestling the CNN logo to the ground in a WWE beatdown. The tweet sparked new controversy for the president due to the implications regarding free speech, the media, and how the president reacts to critical coverage.

Trump is currently facing backlash from critics who think that he mishandled the aftermath of the race-fueled riots over the weekend in Charlottesville. Trump declined to explicitly condemn the white supremacists involved in the scuffle at first, even after one of them murdered Heather Heyer by plowing his car through a crowd of counter-protesters.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-deletes-retweet-depicting-cnn-getting-hit-by-a-train/

[Botany]

1. The man has no filter

n/t

[meow2u3]

3. This excuse for a man has no filter, no conscience, and no sense of decency

He's an embarrassment to every sane American and everybody else on the planet.

[Botany]

6. Trump was trying to do two things here

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1) Sending a message to his alt right base that he has their back
even after he has to publicly denounce them.

2) As the news gets worse and worse for Tump about Russia and
his $$$$ crimes he is trying to blame the media for his problems.


*****

He has no shame.

[L. Coyote]

25. Trump's message: Nazis are bad, BUT the 'truly bad people' are the media ...

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[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Let me help you please, and I know it is obnoxious of me to do so but I must

1) Sending a message to his NAZI base that he has their back
even after he has to publicly denounce them.

and not NeoNazi, as someone here pointed out to me, nothing new or improved about them, they are straight out of Mein Kampf

It really is my part time job to get everybody to NEVER use "alt right" anymore, they are Nazi's, plain and simple.

But thanks for your post.

[Botany]

34. Chanting "blood and soil" Lebensraum (living space)

You are right they were and are nazis. Is was a "Triumph of the Will" Moment
w/their tiki tourch march last friday night.

Why don't they just go back to the old school German word? Lebensraum.
That was one of Hitler's reasons for his war in the east because the superior
German people needed the land in order to build the 3rd Reich's need for
food and raw materials.

Trump has given evil a public voice in America.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141842064

[Eliot Rosewater]

35. My spouse and I have these lawn lamps in the backyard, they are solar, I noticed

they are not lasting as long as they did earlier in the summer. The light dies out around 4 am.

The light has died here in America because there was a time white nationalists and KGB supporters would be shunned and shamed.

[left-of-center2012]

2. I thought his chief of staff Kelly was going to get him under control?

[WePurrsevere]

13. Maybe he's the one of the clean up crew...

Or has established a 24/7 one.

I highly doubt Trump is doing any deleting since it would be like admitting he was wrong and it's just not in him to do that.

[Lulu KC]

23. Exactly what I thought!

He's going into beyond the beyond, and it ain't over.

[LudwigPastorius]

26. John Kelly's job...

?itok=KBAPT0oc

[Demonaut]

4. the outrage..............omg, seriously?

[FBaggins]

18. Are we really the only ones who see how ridiculous the claim is?

The cartoon is clearly not "a train killing a reporter" or someone getting "run over". This one happens to be a modified version of a political cartoon that came out in January of a donkey trying to stop a train.

[33taw]

5. Does Twitter have rules against tweeting calls to violence? Maybe it is time people left Twitter?

[L. Coyote]

27. They allow people to threaten nuclear war.

Seems like they should kick Trump off Twitter!

EVERYONE, SEND IN A COMPLAINT ABOUT THIS MAN WHO IS INCITING VIOLENCE!

AND REMOVE HIM FROM OUR HOUSE TOO!

[Sunlei]

7. patsy for Republican fox state TV- attack all other medias like the nazi party did.

[riversedge]

8. Spread this wide and far #Charlottesville hashtag

[maxrandb]

9. Can anyone identify the Blonde Bimbo?

or is she just a Russian BOT?

[WePurrsevere]

12. I already have her blocked so I've run into her BS before...

And pegged her as a die-hard Trumptwit or a bot since that's mostly who I block. Doing so helps keep my stress levels just a tiny bit lower while tweeting.

[dalton99a]

10. Goddamn sick fuck.

[L. Coyote]

28. Purposeful anti-Jewish dog whistles for his Nazi followers.

The intellectuals and their damn vocabularies, they must be stopped. The scientists and their damn facts, they must be silenced.
The atheists and reality .....

[chelsea0011]

11. Nothing surprising here. I fully expect a rally soon where he will just

continue more of the same.

[Initech]

15. His anti press rhetoric is going to get someone killed.

[Danmel]

16. I believe that it is illegal to delete those tweets without preserving them

Under the presidential records law. These are official statements of the POTUS. We have fallen so far and the put appears to be bottomless.

[workinclasszero]

17. It's a dog whistle to the republican nazi/kkk base

From a white house infested with white supremacist nazis, Trump is still with you, do violence to those who aren't.

I can't believe this POS is POTUS, God help us.

[matt819]

19. Calling General Kelly

Is there a General Kelly in the house?

[Orrex]

21. Terrorist in Chief

[Doug the Dem]

22. He has deleted it

https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-deletes-retweet-depicting-cnn-getting-hit-by-a-train/

[Mike Nelson]

24. Message looks clear...

...be careful out there, reporters.

[L. Coyote]

31. And he retweets a guy calling him a fascist. LOL. 25 45

Link to tweet

Doesn't Trump have a job or something better to do? Oh, wait ....

[hamsterjill]

33. Trump better not harm one hair on the head of Jim Acosta.

There will be outrage. Acosta is doing his job - better than most of his peers.

I hope this latest tweet makes Acosta all the more determined to do his job even better.

[Stonepounder]

36. Maybe you can just call me a cock-eyed optimist, but ...

The cartoon looks more to me that one CNN journalist is holding back the train, rather than being run over by it.

[tclambert]

37. Oh, that's just Trump's sense of humor.

He thinks it's funny when other people get hurt. Even a joke at his own expense sends him into a twitter fury. But someone else getting hurt or killed? He thinks that's hilarious.

[BHDem53]

38. Hopefully that train

will be making a stop at Leavenworth in the near future.