Trump Shares Bonkers Video Showing Him As President Forever
Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Twitter Friday when he shared this video that showed him running for president for all of eternity:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2019
The 30-second clip reportedly created by a pro-Trump meme maker was based on a Time magazine cover and accompanying video from 2018 that made the case for why “Trumpism will outlast Trump.”
It ended with Trump standing behind a lectern bearing the sign “Trump 4Eva.”
Time tweeted its original version to the president in response:
The animation you shared is a manipulated version of the Oct. 22, 2018, cover of TIME. Here's the real one pic.twitter.com/P0WF2nSeNH
— TIME (@TIME) June 21, 2019
Trump’s decision to post the clip amid escalating U.S. tensions with Iran and a new rape allegation against him, which the president has denied, did not go over well with many other tweeters:
This, ladies and gentlemen, is fascism. https://t.co/M8xl4OYssi
— Talib Kweli Greene (@TalibKweli) June 21, 2019
Trump enjoys trolling on Twitter, exhibit A: https://t.co/llB6hx9oTa
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) June 21, 2019
So this is what staring into the vortex of hell looks like https://t.co/T7QgT7sN2l
— Tyler Conway (@jtylerconway) June 21, 2019
Tell me again we're crazy for worrying that he won't leave office, even when he loses next year. https://t.co/MkGOPqHCAe
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) June 21, 2019
I guess the "joke" here is that Trump is president for life.
And, just like his last fake Time Magazine cover, it's a fantasy.
Voters will make him a one-term president. https://t.co/ioewaCj0gk— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) June 21, 2019
I'm not one to get riled up over Trump tweets, but this one is pretty damn scary. This man doesn't believe in a democratic form of government, and now he's putting feelers out there.
He has to be defeated. https://t.co/nPyXQqxdOY— Emma Vigeland (@EmmaVigeland) June 21, 2019
This starts with "Trump 2024, Trump 2028..." and just gets weirder from there https://t.co/85j9hTYcg9
— Steven Lemongello (@SteveLemongello) June 21, 2019
What I want to know is WHO conceptualized this insanity?! https://t.co/wKcUxxE9Y6
— Anya Parampil (@anyaparampil) June 21, 2019
Seems the Iran meetings have either taken a pause or ended for the afternoon. https://t.co/ZTsrfh36BN
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 21, 2019
What is happening https://t.co/W4wWaj9rze
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) June 21, 2019
This is quite the troll. https://t.co/QEOweL3lyQ
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) June 21, 2019
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story referred to the video Trump posted as “doctored.” It is a different video from Time’s, but made to look similar.
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