The exact same day that Facebook got rid of a set of Trump campaign advertisements for breaking the company’s rules against hate symbols, the president continued to push the envelope with his social networks existence. On Thursday night, Trump shared a crudely edited video of two children with a fake CNN chyron reading “Terrified todler [sic] ranges from racist baby.” Ironically, the video goes on to declare “America is not the issue, fake news is.”
The video, which had 7.9 million views at the time of writing, quickly made Twitter’s “manipulated media” warning label, indicating just under the tweet itself that the material is not what it appears. Clicking through the caution label results in a page fact-checking the tweet, including links to the original CNN share of the video of the 2 kids with the framing “These two toddlers are showing us what real-life besties look like.”
The modified video tags @carpedonktum in the lower right-hand corner, signaling that it was made by the notorious meme-making Trump fan whom uses that pseudonym. Carpe Donktum, a.k.a. Logan Cook, attended the White Home’s social media summit, a largely anecdotal exercise in airing unverified complaints of social networks’s anti-conservative bias in 2015.
Trump has shared viral pro-Trump videos originating with Cook prior to, consisting of a clip showing Joe Biden slipping up behind himself and giving his own shoulders a squeeze. Cook, who runs a site called Meme World, was suspended from Twitter for a short time period last year in the fallout from a video by a Meme World factor illustrating Trump killing his critics in the media.
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