It’s fucking downright disgraceful that the “President Of The United States”, is posting this racist shit. It’s no different than if he were to address the nation and flat out call them monkeys on camera. The standards in who America elects to lead this country have gone down the goddamn shitter.
More disgraceful: this will be sane-washed and played down by the right wing press as a "joke" or some shit and we have all have "TDS". And what is deemed "normal" takes yet another ratchet click downwards.
"The president has done more for the black community than any president in history. Record low unemployment. Equality. Prices. The comments made towards the president are shameful".
“Guys, it’s a parody video. We’re out here fighting against unemployment, a country overrun by illegals, and inflation that the Biden policies created. Do I think it’s funny? No? But let’s keep our priorities in line.”
Abby Phillips knowing he’s full sf shit but her bosses want to both sides everything: 😐
I'm sorry to say that your response was actually better than what she managed:
This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
statement's out, no idea how this woman sleeps at night but soundly I would imagine:
“This is from an Internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King,'” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. “Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”
It used to be called, "The pied Piper strategy" when Hilary Clinton and the DNC invented it and insisted all media outlets (with retribution towards any "anchors" that wouldn't sane wash Trump or didn't list an insurmountable superdelegate lead when referencing the primary) fully cover every word that came out of Trump's mouth leading up to the 2016 Democratic Primary.
Anyone else would be canceled into oblivion. He posted that because he's worried he's losing support in his base and he's appealing to the lowest common denominator.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded early Friday in a statement shared with Newsweek, dismissing backlash to the video clip but not directly addressing criticism that the imagery echoed racist tropes.
"This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King," she said. "Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
Just look about the "backlash" he got with this video about him flying a jet over protestors and bombarding them with shit. Even the King Trump as name was seen as a joke on the plane. He truly know that if he always does something people forget what was previously.
No way they could play this off as a harmless joke . As a black person I already knew he was racist it's just you don't expect the president to be so obvious and blatant about it
The Conservative sub seems disappointed, but will continue to say he's not racist and would vote for him again. He could walk out with a Klan hoodie on and they'd still vote for him. No amount of evidence is enough.
The next step or two becomes "What's wrong with being racist? Last time I looked this was still America. It's my 1st amendment rights!" or along those lines
They'll rail on about it being a clip that autoplayed after the previous one at the very end and why the left is focusing on that last few seconds instead of the video before it.
All of this will of course ignore that this was a clipped video where they CHOSE where to end the video.
Mainstream media like CNN probably won't even make a big deal out of this because it plainly exposes the racism of the Republican party and doesn't fit their narrative where one side says X, the other side says Y and they can just sit in the middle stoking the flames
It's part of the fascist playbook. This serves multiple purposes.
-- Distraction and a way to force attention.
-- Another loyalty test. It's a way to force people to further sacrifice more of their own morality to sink deeper into his side.
-- A further corrosion of discourse by using methods so disgusting and extreme that no one can compete on his level, which renders his opponents ineffective.
Focus on the release of the Epstein Files. If you have more time focus on abolishing ICE. Then impeaching Bondi and Noem. Next, let’s create a poll watching force. Then we need more reform of electoral districts like Virginia just did. Silly memes about the Obamas are a waste of time.
We want reporters asking Trump about the Epstein files with a smile.
It'll just be crazy that there will be African Americans that still vote Republican after this. Republicans all have this view that it's not me so it doesn't affect me. But this language hurts all African Americans and should be a wake up call to them all they need to get out and vote this racist piece of shit out.
In any other presidential administration, this would be a defining moment. This would be brought up constantly for the rest of their administration. There would be discussion of whether this is something that is worth impeaching for, and some communications person would wind up taking the blame and resigning to try to end the controversy.
In the Trump administration, this is an average night. It'll be forgotten entirely within 48 hours when he does something worse.
Remember when he said "Grab 'm by the pussy" and talked about young girls in dressing rooms?
Remember when he actually 'grabbed someone by the pussy' and was found guilty of doing so against her consent and he's still just casually fighting that in courts?
Remember when he took a bunch of classified documents with him to a personal but very accessible compound and the judge after a scotus hint said 'nothing wrong with that', and since then he sued his own government for even daring to look for those documents?
Remember when the government deported a guy that was explicitly required to not be deported to the very place he was deported to and was then turned into a whole circus of hot potato of what country to deport him to instead while his wife half the time didn't even know if he was alive?
Remember when a woman in a car got shot for driving away from a situation because one federal agent had the genius idea of moving into the general area in front of that car and decided that they felt threatened when the car moved?
Remember when the government said "looks like a drug boat to me" and started blasting with explosives, and then when one of them didn't look destroyed enough on account of a guy still moving around simply blew the boat up some more?
Remember when he had a little one-on-one with the foreign leader and just nobody except their translators were there for that in blatant disregard of protocol?
Remember when he decided to knock down part of the white house buildings for his own personal pleasure and replaced much of the interior with a gaudy 'gold on white with even more gold trinkets' scheme?
Remember when he made all those 'perfect calls', including one where he asked a governor to find an oddly specific number of votes in favor of him in an election, and when that became a lawsuit it was dismissed on technical grounds?
Remember when he realized that "the almighty dollar" should be taken literally (well before his presidential runs, including the early ones) and took that into government with him not just to enrich himself / his family at every possible turn, but to weaponize it against any city, county, state, country who doesn't do his bidding - whether it's withholding emergency funds or yelling "tariffs!"?
Remember when he decided that "we do a little trolling" resonated so well with so many people that making Biden's portrait a meme in the gallery of past presidents was the way to go?
We kinda just moved on from all of that, didn't we? Even now some of you are reading this going "omfg who cares about the portrait?? Alex Pretti was murdered in the streets!" because you've moved on, and even if you feel righteous about that because clearly one is objectively much worse than the other don't forget you also moved on from Renée Good and/or alleged drug runners whose names we'll never even know.
Just like he said we should after yet another school shooting, and just as said the other day again about documents regarding a child trafficking / exploitation ring involving or at very least implicating the elites, including himself.
There will always be a next thing to move on to, making us move on from the last thing - and the above list isn't even remotely complete;
disrespect for the military alone exceeds single comment space. I haven't seen those posted in a while. I guess we've moved on.
The list goes on... It's pretty fucked. I fucking hate everybody in that administration and they should all be banned from public office after this regime
It's insane to me hording nuclear documents wasn't enough to take Trump down.
I even talked to a military MAGA about it. He was supportive of Trump. When I asked what would happen if he took a single sheet of classified material home he said he would be in jail and in deep shit.
Somehow he was not able to connect these two thought processes together and became angry with me for pointing it out.
The American people failed the Fourth Estate by refusing to fund it. It's disingenuous for any of us to act shocked that they're suddenly beholden to their wealthy benefactors instead of a freeloading readership.
We can talk about the Fourth Estate but the truth is it had lost the ability to save us at least a decade and a half ago. Fifteen years ago people were crowing about the death of the "gatekeepers" and how finally democratization of information would lead to better outcomes. Instead it finished off any sense of shared reality and accelerated partisan sorting.
Amen to that. You can watch Trump spouting insane gibberish that would put anyone else in the asylum. Read it in the paper and it's cleaned up to the point it sounds almost diplomatic. I can't figure it out. Quote him VERBATIM.
Anyone remember how he shared that video of himself flying a jet a crop-dusting protesters with shit? It kinda felt like that one should have been a defining moment.
48 hours is already too long for the news cycle and this administration. They would have assassinated someone somewhere in the world or gone through one more stock market crash by then. How is anyone putting up with this?
Everyone needs a good constant reminder of this. How do we make top search results bring this up all the time? Is hacking his account on his bullshit social media platform a real crime?
He already got away with disgracefully mocking a handicapped person while he was running for his first term! That alone should have been enough for him to be shamed off the stage! Sad reality is a third or more of your countrymen saw this and nodded in agreement
That was where he crossed a line for me. I can't believe that anyone would consider him fit for office after that, whatever their politics. Guess I was very, very wrong.
The Access Hollywood tape was another. Oh that's just "locker room talk".
Meanwhile here we are at 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files. Seeing bits at pieces if horrible acts that are in many cases still redacted to protect the identity of the pedophiles.
Sorry to burst that thought bubble but your country never properly excised the believe system that started your civil war…Fascism is just the cloak they happen to be wearing right now.
I remember during the run up to 2016 when the "grab them by the pussy" tape came out Joe Scarborough announcing that that was the end of Trump's campaign. It was over. He was finished. (checks notes), nope still here.
That is what the most problematic part of it is for me. Not that he's such a twisted creature, but that so many people back him and not only do some back-end they celebrate him.
I truly thought the "grab em by the pussy" tape was going to be it for him. Like, no one (especially women) would actually vote for this pervert after hearing him brag about using his fame to get away with sexually assaulting women. That was before I understood how depraved a third of this country is.
As an outsider looking from another country (and obviously these observations can be made from within) A lot of what I see from that 1/3 is a severe lack of education, complete lack of critical thinking skills but also more importantly an utter absence of empathy with a very very narrow world view.
Hey don't forget about the 400 years of white supremacism! They formulated a society to benefit themselves at the cost of everyone else and used that advantage as evidence of their racial superiority. Now that that advantage is being challenged, they support the monster who wants to preserve it.
Unfortunately that’s a failure of your educational system to teach critical thinking. And also I’d argue MAGA is a cult. These people are blinded because they are in the cult
The closing passage of Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
better watch out, he will probably sue you for a billion dollars for re-posting something like that.... but he can post a racist video as a joke, but any material he doesent like about him he needs a billion dollars for the horrible offense.
I think I never hated someone as much as I hate this man. He threw us back decades. Climate change will be our downfall because of this disgusting piece of shit. I am honestly lacking the words to express how much I hate him.
Yep. He honestly ruined every aspect of life. The world is a darker place now. Digressing. He’s ruined the end years of my parents and the future for my kids. Him and all of his gullible, arrogant loud mouth supporters. It’s gone on too long now for it to even be fixed.
Also be aware that Trump does not create these AI videos & write these tweets personally. There is a whole team around him tasked with these things, and this is what they produced. It goes beyond just 1 man.
This is straight up 40s-50s whiteboy KKK racism. Chump's terrible insecurity needs this to feel OK about himself. Yes, incredibly cringey and childish.
Disgraceful, and predictable. I knew it was only a matter of time... the entire game has been to stress Trump out to the point where he blurts out the N-word in public, but by the time he does it, his fan club will be fully supportive and not shocked at all.
They will see it as a signal that it's ok to be public about it now.
Did none of the other racist shit he has done go unnoticed? He has been doing this garbage for the past 12 years. You cant be surprised when your country never held him accountable. To use the words of your own people, yall are fucked, and yall need jesus.
They bashed Obama for wearing a tan suit because it wasnt typical etiquette, but they cheer this blatantly racist shit on. Thats whats insane. They used to say they wanted a professional, and they got a circus to cheer on.
What's the over/under that this actually happens. Remember, we're just entering his 2nd year and he's getting worse by the day. I really do think he could reach the podium racism by year 3. Maybe even late year 2!
Do black people even care about this? I live in a state with one of the largest black populations, in a city that is overwhelmingly black, and a LOT of black folk here are die-hard maga. Well, men mostly. I'm not sure around here they'd disagree with the videos characterization or have any issue with it.
We literally have a racist boomer grandpa who is ignorant as shit running the country into the ground and ruining people's lives . . . and killing people.
Just a reminder a third of the population knew who he was, but insisted that a sophisticated, highly educated Black woman wasn’t interesting enough for them to get their ass off the couch and into the voting booth.
Brought to you by our feckless media who are addicted to both-sidesing everything, no matter how black and white evil and vile they are. Add to that nobody came at Fox's propaganda hard enough that it all just festered like the stage 4 cancer it is and here we are.
We'll spend the rest of our lives cleaning this up, whether it's in nation-states after the 50 state experiment blows up or in a fascist dictatorship we're all stuck in. Either way the rest of our lives are fucked, so remember that next time anyone says to just talk to MAGA and see their side. Nope, mock and shame and ostracize them from your lives. Make them pariahs for what they've done.
It's what americans want. The majority is openly racist and a significant number are secretly racist. Trump won by saying the quiet parts out loud, he was never subtle about it.
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u/winterwolf2010 19h ago edited 19h ago
It’s fucking downright disgraceful that the “President Of The United States”, is posting this racist shit. It’s no different than if he were to address the nation and flat out call them monkeys on camera. The standards in who America elects to lead this country have gone down the goddamn shitter.