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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,956 posts)
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 12:59 PM Sep 2020

Trump shares manipulated video of Biden, replacing 'Despacito' with N.W.A's anti-police anthem

On his first visit to Florida as a presidential nominee on Tuesday, Joe Biden whipped out his cellphone to play “Despacito,” as a tribute to its singer, Luis Fonsi, who introduced the former vice president at the event. The moment exploded on social media, inspiring jokes, memes and a surprise resurgence of the 2017 single onto Twitter’s trending topics.

Early on Wednesday morning, President Trump joined the fray — but in the video he tweeted, it wasn’t “Despacito” playing from Biden’s phone. It was N.W.A’s notorious 1988 single “F--- tha Police.”

“What is this all about?” Trump asked over the manipulated video.

Trump and his conservative allies have ramped up a campaign of online disinformation in recent weeks, as The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker reported, with the president in particular tweeting out numerous false claims and misleadingly labeled videos. Earlier on Tuesday, Trump shared a tweet baselessly accusing Biden of being a pedophile.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-shares-manipulated-video-of-biden-replacing-despacito-with-nwas-anti-police-anthem/ar-BB195MQp?li=BBnb7Kz

Oh please. The asshole who admits to walking in on the Miss Teen pagent dressing room?

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Trump shares manipulated video of Biden, replacing 'Despacito' with N.W.A's anti-police anthem (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I'd expect this from a late night talk show but not from the POTUS. Initech Sep 2020 #1
Did they at least give Biden a Jerri Curl? If not, what a waste. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Sep 2020 #2
We need to fight fire with fire TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #3

Initech

(100,068 posts)
1. I'd expect this from a late night talk show but not from the POTUS.
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 01:04 PM
Sep 2020

And seriously, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel have more class than that.

TheRealNorth

(9,478 posts)
3. We need to fight fire with fire
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 01:17 PM
Sep 2020

I am thinking about overlaying a picture of Officer Chauvin in the process of murdering George Floyd with audio of Trump talking about how cops need to rough the people they are arresting up, or more recently in the case of Michael Forest Reinoehl, endorse extra-judicial killings.

Tie the police brutality to the words that Trump uses.

** Addded: I guess Trump's word for the day is letting the police have their "mojo".

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