the conference. this was part of an exhibit showing off memes, digital videos that promote president trump. in fact, this video has been on youtube for more than a year but the fact that it s being shown as a trump conference at a pro-trump conference is distu disturbing. it shows the extent to which this kind of hateful beliefs have been normalized. here is part of what the new york times story says about what is shown in the video. the video depicts a scene inside the church of fake news where parishioners arrive as mr. trump arrives walks down the aisle many parishioners faces have been replaced but news organizations trump stops in the middle of the church, pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and begins a graphic rampage as the parishioners try to flee, the president fires at them. he shoots black lives matter in the head and also shoots vice news. now this video goes on and on for a couple minutes. it s a parody of the kingsman 2014, shows this fake version of president tr
firmed it was shown at a protrump political conference. in case you have not seen it, it depicts a killing spree inside of a church, but the video has been manipulated and features a fake donald trump. to quote the new york times, mr. trump stops in the middle of the truch, pulls a gun out of his suit jacket pocket and begins a rampage. the president fires at people attempting to leave. he shoots black lives matter in the head. yes, he kills members of the press in this video, and yes, how could i not take it personally, that there is so much more to this, in this video, the fake president also attacks barack obama, mitt romney, shoots hillary clinton in the neck and pistol whips the
weekend, this became another one of those days where there was condemnation of the president from democrats and observers, condemnation of the president from members of his own political party. it was an interesting thing that happened late this afternoon, early this evening when some white house officials tried to distance themselves from the president s remarks as well, at least one senior official anonymously telling nbc news that members of the president s team, stunned by the president s words today. this one senior white house official telling reporters, telling nbc news that the president went rogue, that there was no expectation among the white house staff that the president was going to make remarks on this subject at all. and as much as some white house official might want us to believe that, it s clear that that account was not true. the associated press caught this high resolution shot of the president folding up notes clearly about the white supremacist rally and sticking
great high resolution shot of the president folding up notes clearly about the white supremacist rally and sticking them into his suit jacket pocket before he started taking questions on this today. the president was not there to talk about infrastructure today. he was obviously intending as well to talk about this matter today. he had prepared to talk about this matter today. this was a lot of things today. it was not apparently a mistake. and at some point it s going to have to stop being treated as a surprise. this was not the president accidentally blundering into something that inadvertently sounded like sympathy for people with unpopular political views, right? i mean this is on purpose. this is what it is meant to be. the president building up and trying to center up in american politics a longstanding force in white american politics and culture that we have been trained to think of as a fringe thing. but it does have a very long history, and it does have real force. the presid
official telling reporters, telling nbc news that the president went rogue, that there was no expectation among the white house staff that the president was going to make remarks on this subject at all. and as much as some white house official might want us to believe that, it s clear that that account is not true. the associated press caught this great high resolution shot of the president folding up notes clearly about the white supremacist rally and sticking them into his suit jacket pocket before he started taking questions on this today. the president was not there to talk about infrastructure today. he was obviously intending as well to talk about this matter today. he had prepared to talk about this matter today. this was a lot of things today. it was not apparently a mistake. and at some point it s going to have to stop being treated as a surprise. this was not the president accidentally blundering into something that inadvertently sounded like sympathy for people with unpopula