NY Times: Violent parody video shown at Trump resort

[TexasTowelie]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON — A graphically violent parody video, shown at a meeting of President Donald Trump's supporters at his Miami resort, depicted a likeness of the president shooting and stabbing his opponents and members of the news media in a church, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In the video, Trump's critics and media members are portrayed as parishioners fleeing his gruesome rampage. The fake Trump strikes the late Sen. John McCain in the neck, hits and stabs TV personality Rosie O'Donnell in the face, lights Sen. Bernie Sanders' head on fire and shoots or otherwise assaults people whose faces are replaced with news organization logos.

The video was shown last week at an American Priority conference at Trump's Doral Miami resort, the newspaper said. Trump was not there. Event organizer Alex Phillips told the Times the video was played as part of a "meme exhibit" and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference "in any official capacity." ''American Priority rejects all political violence," he said, and is looking into the matter.

The video includes the logo for Trump's 2020 campaign but Tim Murtaugh, spokesman for the re-election organization, told the Times the "video was not produced by the campaign, and we do not condone violence."

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[dalton99a]

1. It is a call to action for the cult

[Anon-C]

26. Excellent contribution to the thread.

[dchill]

2. "American Priority." Once again, irony is brutally attacked.

[salin]

3. Because depicting the president as a mass murderer is ... exactly what?

... "Grotesque."

Count me as profoundly disturbed.

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. The NYT needs to remember when running Dem-smearing OpEds

that these are the people who are going to kill them one day. They continue to empower them at their peril.

[me_not_you]

5. Why can't the GOP police it's own???

Find myself in a place of not wanting the left not challenged on their ideas. Especially the center. As this is the only way to produce 'strong ideas.' But I also take your point.

This is the double-fuck of Mr. Trump. His rabid base will attack NYT Et al. for not going after dems like they do with him, so the NYT publishes such garbage stories in a bit to be viewed as fair. But of course me being a radical socialist, I'm never happy with the NYT, which is something the right fails to see. That the entire DNC isn't full of 'socialist.' We are a fringe faction.

Plus isn't the NYT protected by some George Soros interdimensional cloaking spell?

[SergeStorms]

8. If not for the New York Times....

Trump would be working Coney Island, lifting wallets and biting the heads off rats for quarters. They made the asshole who he is today.

[Miguelito Loveless]

22. Absolutely,

The only publication ever to show Trump as wife cheating, mobbed up, con man he is, was Spy Magazine, back in the 80s.

[Anon-C]

28. +1000

[Cha]

7. Bullshit.. you "don't condone violence"!

[Liberty Belle]

9. As a journalist I find this chilling, even more so since Trump has not denounced it,

thus tacitly signaling support for mass murder of reporters.

Who made the video? They should be shamed and boycotted, and perhaps even arrested for inciting violence. If any journalist gets killed or harmed, they should sue the fillm maker.

[melm00se]

21. shhhhhhh

Constitutional protections only exist for people they agree with. For everyone else, it's off to the gulag you go.

[LanternWaste]

32. I'd rationalize the video too if my narrative demanded it of me.

I'd also pretend a thin veneer of 'sincerity and innocence' were applicable by alleging "I was just pointing out one thing..." and hide behind implication as well.

[MBS]

18. Chilling and terrifying, for sure.

The potential for violence in this election is real.

[MBS]

38. agreed! : ( n/t

[IcyPeas]

10. CNN Statement

Link to tweet

?s=19

[Scarsdale]

19. Democratic politicians were also depicted

being killed in this stupid video. It made tRump look slimmer than he has EVER been, plus more active. Not the slow moving, lumbering large blob of orange goo. The person who made this video needs to be outed. O'Keefe? This is disgusting. I hope Doral's bedbugs are still active there. Nothing would satisfy me more than to see photos of tRump Jr. Huckerbee Sanders and Guilfoyle covered with bedbug bites.

[Grasswire2]

13. prior thread here

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212580232|

[trueblue2007]

14. GRAPHIC VIOLENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the video — which features a modified clip from the 2014 film “Kingsman: The Secret Service” — a man with Trump’s superimposed face goes on a violent and bloody rampage inside what’s called the “Church of Fake News.”

The figure can be seen walking in the church as other people with logos over their heads from a bevy of news outlets — including PBS, NPR, HuffPost and The Washington Post — sit in the pews. The Trump-like figure then pulls out a gun and opens fire on the media outlets. Other fake versions of political and media figures are then attacked in the clip, including former FBI Director James Comey, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and the late Arizona Sen. John McCain.

A likeness of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 presidential candidate, later has his head lit on fire with a blow torch.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. What additional horror show is this display meant to unleash??!

[ewagner]

23. The obvious symbolism of this video...

Trump going into a church and killing the "impure" liberals....

I think that's meant to portray Trump as a latter day Jesus...going into the "sacred" temple (e.g. The United States, Congress, Media etc) and cleansing it with righteous violence...to depict Jesus driving the "money changers out of the temple".

This is dangerous crap....

[Rhiannon12866]

24. Good Grief!

What "church" in hell does Trump ever frequent?? Like Stephen Colbert said - they burst into flames when he just walks by!

[ewagner]

25. True...he doesn't go to church

But the evangelicals still believe that he is "god's anointed savior of America".

This
Makes
No
Sense
At
All

[Rhiannon12866]

27. If anyone watched George HW Bush's funeral - it was obvious he didn't even know how to behave!

He was an embarrassment there, no big surprise. But he obviously had never been to church before, so he was just his usual rude attention seeking self!

[ewagner]

29. True also...

this video is intended to solidify his evangelical support...

if it starts showing up at campaign rallies, you can be sure that the plan is to mobilize and radicalize his supporters to pose a threat (maybe real threat) to his impeachment.

[Rhiannon12866]

30. That's one thing that even Jimmy Carter has brought up

Why do the evangelicals persist in voting Republican?? He doesn't get it and neither do I - and Trump is the most extreme example - he's the guy who hoards all the gold who they're taught to beware of!

[KPN]

36. Exactly.

[sop]

16. If any Democratic party-allied group showed a similar video, but with Trump as the victim,

Secret Service agents would investigate and Barr's DOJ would file charges for threatening the president's life.

[BigmanPigman]

17. And we all know it will get even worse.

Man, I'm depressed as Hell.

[IronLionZion]

20. They've supported violence against Americans for political aims ever since he started campaigning

you know, since these people are not terrorists

[underpants]

31. "meme exhibit" how F'ing LAME

and yes I do meme threads but as part of a conference???? Wow that's lame.

[keithbvadu2]

33. "in a church" - Now it's ok with republicans. What next? Schools?

"in a church" -

Now it's ok with republicans.

What next? Schools?

[flibbitygiblets]

37. "American Priority rejects all political violence", except for this violent video they showed.

At their conference. But rest east, they're looking into it.

PS, any word on how Dump's Nobel Peace Prize is coming along?

[Tom Rinaldo]

39. Remind me again, what was Kathy Griffin blacklisted for?

Oh, now I remember. A"tasteless" obviously staged parody photo. I believe the "conservative outrage" went on for well over a month.