NY Times: Violent parody video shown at Trump resort
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
(81,386 posts)Response to dalton99a (Reply #1)
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Anon-C
(3,430 posts)dchill
(38,433 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)... "Grotesque."
Count me as profoundly disturbed.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,451 posts)that these are the people who are going to kill them one day. They continue to empower them at their peril.
me_not_you
(75 posts)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
(19,148 posts)Trump would be working Coney Island, lifting wallets and biting the heads off rats for quarters. They made the asshole who he is today.
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Miguelito Loveless
(4,451 posts)The only publication ever to show Trump as wife cheating, mobbed up, con man he is, was Spy Magazine, back in the 80s.
Cha
(296,778 posts)Liberty Belle
(9,532 posts)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.
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melm00se
(4,984 posts)Constitutional protections only exist for people they agree with. For everyone else, it's off to the gulag you go.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)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
(9,688 posts)The potential for violence in this election is real.
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IcyPeas
(21,839 posts)Link to tweet
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Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)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
(13,565 posts)trueblue2007
(17,189 posts)In the video which features a modified clip from the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service a man with Trumps superimposed face goes on a violent and bloody rampage inside whats 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, MSNBCs 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
(204,676 posts)ewagner
(18,964 posts)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
(204,676 posts)What "church" in hell does Trump ever frequent?? Like Stephen Colbert said - they burst into flames when he just walks by!
ewagner
(18,964 posts)But the evangelicals still believe that he is "god's anointed savior of America".
This
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Rhiannon12866
(204,676 posts)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
(18,964 posts)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
(204,676 posts)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!
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KPN
(15,635 posts)sop
(10,090 posts)Secret Service agents would investigate and Barr's DOJ would file charges for threatening the president's life.
BigmanPigman
(51,564 posts)Man, I'm depressed as Hell.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)you know, since these people are not terrorists
underpants
(182,585 posts)and yes I do meme threads but as part of a conference???? Wow that's lame.
keithbvadu2
(36,640 posts)"in a church" -
Now it's ok with republicans.
What next? Schools?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)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
(22,911 posts)Oh, now I remember. A"tasteless" obviously staged parody photo. I believe the "conservative outrage" went on for well over a month.