A video, which showed US President Donald Trump shooting and assaulting members of the media and political opponents was shown at an event, last week, which included Trumps supporters at Mar-a-Lago.
Donald Trump Jr. and former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders where present at the event, and both of them said they did not see it.
According to Yahoo news, the video showed Trumps head superimposed on the body of a man who opens fire inside the “Church of Fake News.” His targets are parishioners with logos of media organizations — including the Washington Post, Politico and Yahoo News — superimposed on their faces, as well as Black Lives Matter, the late Sen. John McCain, Rep. Maxine Waters and Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom Trump sets on fire. Other victims portrayed in the video include Rosie O’Donnell, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, George Soros, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Sen. Mitt Romney, Bill and Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a tweet Monday morning that the president had yet to see the video but that he condemns the contents based on reports. She said he would see it shortly. Trump has yet to respond directly.
According to the Times, the video appeared to have been gotten from a church massacre scene in a 2014 movie titled; Kingsman: The Secret Service.
The video, the existence of which The New York Times was first to report, was notable for its level of violence. It is part of a growing genre of pro-Trump memes that routinely earn thousands of views on sites like YouTube and Twitter. Many use superimposed faces and feature the president and his chief supporters valiantly conquering challengers or members of the media.
The one featured at the Florida conference appears to have been first posted in July 2018 on the YouTube channel “TheGeekzTeam,” where it has been viewed more than 250,000 times. It uses a violent clip from the 2015 spy thriller “Kingsman: The Secret Service.” In the original scene, actor Colin Firth is depicted shooting a crowd of possessed churchgoers.
TheGeekzTeam’s parody of Trump in “Kingsman” was taken down for a copyright claim late Monday. An email listed for TheGeekzTeam did not respond to a request for comment.
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The channel frequently posts violent parody videos of Trump playing popular movie superheroes or assassins. One depicts Trump as a comic book vigilante from the Netflix show “Daredevil” who stabs, punches and kills the superimposed faces of Democratic Rep.
The White House press secretary, Stephanie Grisham said the President had not seen the video and would see it shortly. She went on to say: ” But based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video”.
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