White House Says Trump 'Strongly Condemns' Violent Video Attacking Media

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday said President Trump “strongly condemns” a gruesome fake video that depicts him shooting members of the news media and political rivals, which was shown at his Florida resort.

But, aides said, he had not seen it and planned to view it “shortly.”

“Re: the video played over the weekend: The @POTUS @realDonaldTrump has not yet seen the video, he will see it shortly, but based upon everything he has heard, he strongly condemns this video,” the White House spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said in a Twitter post on Monday morning.

Mr. Trump, who has been posting on Twitter about other topics early Monday — including wishing his former press secretary good luck on his appearance on Monday evening on “Dancing with the Stars” — has not mentioned or condemned the video himself.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/trump-video-media.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[2naSalit]

1. and he'll be retweeting it before noon.

[dalton99a]

2. Which means he already has seen it and he loves it

[Chemisse]

4. Of course.

Since when does he have the self-control to postpone looking at something that features The Great One.

[mountain grammy]

7. Exactly!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Yeah right. And I am the Virgin Mary......

I came to the realization in 2015 that NOT TO TRUST a word Trump says because it is all LIES.

[bonniebgood]

5. I don't see the MEDIA 7 journalist playing the video in loop. against any other group

they would be replaying/retweeting it in loop.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. His own mistake was depicted on the cover.

*uck him.

[Kingofalldems]

8. The video should be made public.

To show the world what monsters Trump and his supporters are.

[CaptainTruth]

11. It is. I've seen lots of links on Twitter. It's disgusting.

[ancianita]

15. I wouldn't in any way enable the building of a con subculture of deepfakes.

[Corgigal]

9. Bullshit.

None of his clowns do anything unless they get their kings permission.

We don’t believe you.

[packman]

12. The video is an altered scene from The Kingsmen movie

Interesting that right after the church massacre, the character doing all the killing is , in turn, killed after walking out of the church.

[True Blue American]

29. They must have missed that!

[world wide wally]

13. The video should have been a little bit realistic and shown him hiding in a closet or under a pew

I would have added running away, but it is unrealistic to show him "running" anywhere

[Mr.Bill]

16. Good point.

In reality, a healthy 12 year old child could tackle him and take the gun away.

[Hotler]

14. I bet tRump knew about it, and he doesn't care. nt

[sarge43]

24. He cares. (graphic warning)

He probably jerked off

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Don't read his lips

watch his actions and the vitriol spewing out of both sides of his innocent mouth

[Sugar Smack]

18. Sure. The whole thing will give trump a chuckle.

It's as predictable as the sunrise.

[NCjack]

19. Looks like he is firing up his base to act start his "civil" war. nt

[keithbvadu2]

20. Wink, Wink, goes the Donald.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. He'll watch it and then tweet something contradicting his own White House. . . . nt

[GemDigger]

22. The so called President needs to say thins. On TV, on all stations.

And NOT on a damn tweet. And not by someone who works for him. HE has to do it.

[NastyRiffraff]

23. I call bullshit

He probably got an early copy of the video and laughed his fat ass off watching it. He doesn't have a real, healthy sense of humor, but that video is exactly his idea of humor.

[Initech]

25. Trump seems like the kind of guy who gets his jollies torturing small animals.

I wouldn't be surprised if he saw this and laughed. It was great in Kingsman but when you alter it like that, it's horrifying.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Trump is too scared to say this publicly, himself.

He can't risk alienating any of his voters. Doing so would cause more than a few who would question his toughness and willingness to conduct a civil war.

They want a Putin running the country. No messy democracy that might get in the way of a fascist state and group think.

[JDC]

27. BULL SHIT. he loves it

[mainstreetonce]

28. So,is he suing?

For using his image?

[True Blue American]

31. Ha!

That will be the day! Trump is threatening to sue schiff and Pelosi!

[FoxNewsSucks]

30. Bullshit!

MF45 loved it. He probably pre-approved it.

It actually was put on YouTube a year ago. Only getting publicity now because it was aired at a tRump event on a tRump property.

MF45 met the creator in the Oval Office, along with other meme creators.

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1182395889127743488/IcNPfm4r?format=jpg&name=600x314

I'm surprised MF45 isn't saying the guy just came in to make some covfefe

[Vinca]

32. Now taking bets on how soon he retweets it.

[The Liberal Lion]

33. That's a load of shit

This motherfucker can retweet the most obscure conspiracy theories appearing ONLY in the most remote corners of the dark web, but he didn't see a video of himself that depicts him in (from the right wing POV) a heroic light that was all over the internet within hours of it playing at an even for him? Give me a fucking break! He saw it, he liked it. Hell he probably saw it before it even aired and green-lighted the whole thing. PUHLEEZE!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

34. I'd like to know who made this video.

and then tell the FBI to sit on them...……….

[demgrrrll]

35. There is something about this video that is similar to the video that was played when DU went down

on election night. The checkered sunglasses. Something about it reminds me of that night.

[yardwork]

36. The DU video looked like it was made by an Eastern European group.

There were glorified images of fascist leaders from Eastern Europe all through the video.