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Internet Meme of President Trump Condemned by White House
16 Oct, 2019 / 11:41 am / Anas Barbarawi

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U.S President Donald Trump is always in the news for his hatred speeches and outbursts against the media since his inception to the august office. President Trump blamed the news media for the division and hatred that was happening in the country. He also took chances to blame the media for the problems in U.S and also criticized the country’s top media outlets like CNN, The Washington Post and NBC TV accusing them as propagandists of fake news. This tug of war between the President and media was going on for some time and now the latest addition to the scene is an internet meme . In the internet meme  taken from a scene in the 2014 spy comedy "Kingsman: The Secret Service" , the president's head is superimposed on a man opening fire on people whose faces have been replaced with the logos of media outlets including CNN, The Washington Post and NBC TV.

This edited parody video was shown at an event held by a pro-Trump group, American Priority, at Trump National Doral Miami golf resort over the weekend. At a conference of Trump supporters, they played a video of President Trump murdering journalists in a church. The prominent victims of President’s attack are  Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former President Barack Obama, Senator Bernie Sanders, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and other prominent Trump critics like MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, actor Rosie O'Donnell, and financier George Soros.

CNN wrote on Twitter: "This is not the first time that supporters of the President have promoted violence against the media in a video they apparently find entertaining, but it is by far and away the worst." The network called on the White House to denounce the clip, saying "anything less equates to a tacit endorsement of violence." The White House Correspondents' Association also called on Trump to denounce the meme.

After a report about the video from the New York Times sparked extreme outrage from the people edited to look like they were being killed, the White House strongly condemned the video . White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in a tweet that even though the President hasn’t seen the video he condemned it on the basis of what he heard. Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke  noted that Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc was jailed last year for mailing crude bombs to CNN and prominent Democrats.

"This video isn't funny. It will get people killed," O'Rourke said. Media organizations have come under regular verbal attack from Trump and his supporters.

At rallies, the US president repeatedly encourages the crowd to boo and heckle journalists covering the event, calling them "fake news" and "enemy of the people." Trump has previously tweeted a roughly edited video clip of him attacking a wrestler whose head had been superimposed with a CNN logo