Emily Jane Fox @emilyjanefox Remember in August when the president took a stand against “gruesome and grisly” video games because “it is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence”?
BrooklynDad_Defiant Savage! @mmpadellan Every single Conservative who came out and called for Kathy Griffin to resign for her tasteless video needs to do the same for the gruesome, Kingsman-based #TrumpVideo.
How Trump Supporters Express Their Id Through Memes
"The Sick Video Played at a Pro-Trump Conference Is a Glimpse of the Dark Energy in American Politics"
An edited movie clip featuring Donald Trump killing representations of the press and his political enemies recently shocked social media. But violent memes are nothing new in the MAGA community.
Kathryn Watson November 1, 2019
“Triumphant Trump”
Over the weekend of October 10 through 12, a group of about a thousand Donald Trump supporters convened in Miami for the American Priority Festival and Conference. The purpose was ostensibly to “support free speech” and “highlight American culture.” This would be accomplished, at least in part, through speeches by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Dinesh D’Souza, and Donald Trump Jr. It turned out to also involve watching garish depictions of the president stabbing, shooting, pistol-whipping, and choking his political enemies.
Sometime during the span of the conference (which, naturally, was held at a Trump property, the Miami Doral Hotel), a screen in a side room played a selection of video clips on a loop. One of these videos depicted President Trump in an edited version of a scene from the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service. In it, secret agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) travels to Kentucky to investigate a hate group that is being used as an unwitting test subject by a villainous tech billionaire. Using a subliminal signal, the villain “triggers” the entire church to go into a murderous frenzy. Harry, being armed and much more competent than the parishioners, kills them all to the tune of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” In the edited version which played at American Priority, Trump’s face is superimposed over Firth’s, and his victims are his various avowed nemeses, from a bobblehead labeled “Vice News” to a flattened photographic portrait of Mitt Romney. Notably, most of the enemies are news organizations or members of the press.
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Spokesperson Stephanie Grisham said that Trump condemned the video “based on what he had heard” about its content. But this condemnation seemed incongruous with an administration that has done nothing but encourage a contemptuous view of the press. That’s part of why the White House Correspondents’ Association took umbrage at the video. Data analysis conducted by the Committee to Protect Journalists demonstrates that Trump’s Twitter referendums on the press have escalated during his time in office, beginning with his accusations of “fake news” and now ringing with more sinister overtones as he directly refers to the press as “the enemy of the people.” As news outlets report on Trump in ways his base doesn’t like, he weaponizes their backlash, fueling their confirmation bias at the expense of the credibility and personal safety of journalists. A single tweet from the president belittling the press can birth tens of thousands of memes in its wake.
“God-Emperor Trump, Purger of Heretics and Exterminator of Xenos”
The MAGA meme community seizes particularly on the image of Trump as a medieval crusader, which implies him as a divinely appointed magistrate ridding sacred lands of strangers, liars, and apostates. It makes perfect sense to cast a narcissistic xenophobic leader in this type of role. Except Trump the Crusader is targeting the press as his heretical entity, pointing them out as a source of harmful misinformation that must be destroyed (even as he himself proves to be a frequent source of harmful misinformation). He becomes their stand-in, acting upon this group’s desire for revenge against their perceived foes. ...
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