TRUMP AND HIS FANS APPEAR TO BE VERY ILL PEOPLE

…This was the announcement posted about Trump’s latest Tweet.

President Trump highly utilizes his 60 million Twitter followers.

Trump just can’t stop lying, and he keeps proving that he is a very sick man.

His latest dirty trick was of course, done through Twitter.

This time, using his, “MAGA - MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” theme, Trump tweeted footage of Washington monuments and government buildings, as orchestral music is thundering in the scene’s opening seconds.  This is interspersed with shots of former president Barack Obama. “First they ignore you,” the text against a black background reads: “Then they laugh at you. Then they call you racist.” The footage shows the Clintons and comedians Rosie O’Donnell and Amy Schumer. Then, as the soundtrack swells, the footage switches to images of Trump and the crowds at his rallies.

“Your vote,” the screen reads, “proved them all wrong.”

By late that night, Trump’s tweet had racked up nearly 90,000 “likes” and 29,000 “retweets”.

However, a few hours later, the video was blocked on all major sites like Twitter and YouTube.

The message was: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”

BuzzFeed News first pointed out, that the dramatic music groaning alongside the two-minute film was lifted from the Batman film: “The Dark Knight Rises.”  This is the 2012 film of director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy starring Christian Bale. The song from composer, Hans Zimmer’s score is called “Why Do We Fall”.

Warner Bros., the studio behind the film, was not a happy camper.

“The use of Warner Bros.’ score from The Dark Knight Rises in the campaign video was unauthorized,” a spokesman told BuzzFeed News. “We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed.”

The clip is not an official campaign product, but is just the work of a Trump fan who uploaded the video to: r/The_Donald, a sub-reddit on Reddit that is a video-clogged online playground for Trump fans, alt-right trolls and many vast conspiracy-mongers.  In other words, it’s a place for Trump’s mis-guided fans, anti-Semetics, white supremacist and white nationalists.

The president has dipped into these controversial on-line backwaters many times since he found his life on Twitter.  Trump now regularly fires off content to his nearly 60 million Twitter followers, regardless of its origin.

Fortunately, the pro-Trump clip was totally pulled off of the Internet late the next night.

You may recall that during the 2016 election, then-candidate Trump retweeted a post / picture criticizing Hillary Clinton.  The picture of Hillary featured an image of the Jewish Star of David next to her face. The image had originally surfaced on the online messaging board 8chan.  Time Magazine has stated that this message board regularly features neo-Nazi and serious anti-Semitic content.  After this was made clear on all the news outlets, Trump was forced to deleted the tweet.

Back in July 2017, Trump tweeted out a feature of him, body-slamming a CNN logo. Politico stated that this image was the product of another Reddit user who was also tied to racist and anti-Semitic features. 

Just last month, the president shared a tweet featuring a boy being patted down by an agent of the Transportation Security Administration. As the Washington Post reported, that clip had originally been shared by an QAnon conspiracy theorist.

The latest shared video was apparently first posted on r/The_Donald by the Reddit user: knock-nevisTDF.  According to the YouTube version of the account (which is also now deactivated), the feature was produced by MateyProductions.  This is a 2006 incorporated British video production company that is known for these kind of controversial features.

That specific YouTube user account features a handful of pro-Trump productions.  Many, such as “President Donald Trump. How you like him now? Tribute” and “Kavanaugh vs the Democrats.” These all feature a similar mix of news footage, skyline shots of D.C. and clips of Trump in action at his rallies.

Of course, the White House has not responded to a request for comment on the video.  And an email sent to an address associated with MateyProductions has not been responded to.

On Reddit, the user who claimed he had created the video sound-tracked by the Batman music fielded congratulations from other r/The_Donald posters.

“Thanks to all the patriots on here, it blew up!,” the user wrote “You could imagine my shock today when I was told he [Trump] tweeted it! . . . My dad has his tweet printed so I can frame it, haha.”

Obviously, many of Trump’s fans are also very sick.

Copyright G. Ater 2019