The New York Times reported today that a video mashup depicting Trump slaughtering a church packed with his “fake news” enemies, from Barack Obama to the BBC, was shown last week to supporters at one of his Miami resorts. This 1000-view video is surely it. It’s found by fixing the perspective on the oblique screengrab shown by the Times and then reverse image searching it. The Times didn’t include the video in its reportage, as far as I could tell, but it did mention that it was significantly derived from something posted on YouTube.
The video, which includes the logo for Mr. Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, comprises a series of internet memes. The most violent clip shows Mr. Trump’s head superimposed on the body of a man opening fire inside the “Church of Fake News” on parishioners who have the faces of his critics or the logos of media organizations superimposed on their bodies. … The disclosure that the video was played shows how Mr. Trump’s anti-media language has influenced his supporters and bled into their own propaganda. Mr. Trump has made attacks on the news media a mainstay of his presidency, and he tweeted a similar — but far less violent video — in 2017. In recent weeks as he has confronted impeachment proceedings, he has ramped up his attacks on the news media, repeatedly calling it the “enemy of the people.”
It’s evidently a scene from Kingsman: The Secret Service with Trump’s head (among others) crudely superimposed on characters from the film. The mashup is incredibly, cringingly dorky— but it’s also a video depicting the president on a killing spree in a church posted on the anniversary of one of America’s most infamous white supremacist church massacres.
Here’s the part where Trump fans fantasize about the president murdering my coworkers. pic.twitter.com/OhirGfAVqH
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 14, 2019
This is utterly shockinghttps://t.co/sIrARIq1ES
— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) October 14, 2019
2. "He strikes the late Arizona senator John McCain in the back of the neck. He hits the television personality Rosie O’Donnell in the face and then stabs her in the head. He strikes Rep Maxine Waters. He lights the head of Senator Bernie Sanders on fire"https://t.co/PdXLkcSYLO
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 14, 2019
very cool that MAGA cultists fantasize about doing a church mass murder against their political opponents https://t.co/pFGL16FwGU
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) October 14, 2019