Trump is angry that Twitter won't remove a crudely edited 'Moscow Mitch' meme poking fun at McConnel

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump raged against Twitter on Tuesday over a meme that labels Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as "Moscow Mitch," questioning why the platform wouldn't remove the image.

The meme depicts McConnell's face crudely edited onto the body of a Soviet soldier, and was shared by an account that had just over 100 followers.

"Why does Twitter leave phony pictures like this up, but take down Republican/Conservative pictures and statements that are true?" Trump tweeted.

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Trump has for months been nursing a grudge against Twitter, which recently applied warning labels to several of his tweets that violated its policies against promoting violence and spreading misinformation about voting. Trump reacted to those warning labels in May with an executive order listing grievances against social media companies and asking the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on them.

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[Beakybird]

1. The Mitch meme isn't trying to deceive people that McConnell put on a Russian military uniform.

It's also not being put out by Joe Biden's campaign as an official statement.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Beat me by 1 minute ;) nt

[rurallib]

2. what "Republican/Conservative pictures and statements are true"

there Bunky (Bunky - that's short for "Bunker Boy&quot

[mr_lebowski]

3. Because dipshit there's a difference between obviously edited photos and deceptively edited videos

There's also a difference between an actual candidates campaign doing it vs some schmo with 100 followers but I don't know if they consider that.

[mr_lebowski]

5. And for another thing ... obvious satire of public figures is confirmed legal/non-libelous by

the Supreme Court. Conservative crap that is ... that ... will also not be removed.

See: The People vs. Larry Flynt

[CaptYossarian]

11. I've been in a high school teacher's lounge that had a ginormous fake poster

of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton sitting on a stool, wearing a SS-style dominatrix outfit. It was the first thing you saw as you opened the door. Even the female teachers were silent about it.

The one thing this school district was notorious for was the number of teachers who didn't join the union.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Didn't he retweet some crude animations

where he shot and otherwise mutated his opponents? Yes, he did.

[BComplex]

7. He doesn't like anyone that has more power than he does.

"Trump has for months been nursing a grudge against Twitter, which recently applied warning labels to several of his tweets that violated its policies against promoting violence and spreading misinformation about voting. Trump reacted to those warning labels in May with an executive order listing grievances against social media companies and asking the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on them."

Fortunately or unfortunately, twitter does have more power than trump.

[Flaleftist]

8. So he retweets it from someone with 166 followers to his 85 million.

[crickets]

10. 👍 We've been owned, eh? nt

[C_U_L8R]

9. Whatever, Dolgoprudny Donald.

[Luz]

12. So the pics of trumps Rambo body are real??? 😂

[SheltieLover]

13. Struck a nerve?

[durablend]

14. You could always boycott Twitter to show them!

(oh right, you can't!)

[onethatcares]

15. anyone with a lick of sense

would know Moscow Mitch would never have attained that rank