Trump believes his followers are a bunch of racist morons
Twitter was once again forced to add a correction to one of Donald Trump’s lies. The social media site lets most of the president’s falsehoods pass — keeping up with them all is an admittedly inhuman task — but not this latest, in which Trump shared a fake video that was an such an ugly, racist provocation that Twitter slapped a warning label on it to alert viewers it had been “manipulated.”
The video Trump tweeted shows a white toddler chasing a Black toddler, along with a fake CNN caption reading “Terrified toddler runs from racist baby.” Then it switches to a video of the two kids hugging and playing with the caption, “What really happened.” The so-called argument of the video is that CNN is manipulating innocent footage of children playing to leverage false accusations of racism. Of course, CNN did no such thing. The CNN chyron was faked and the only “fake news” is that CNN would ever call a baby “racist.” CNN had done a story about the toddlers, in 2019, but it was an innocent, if cloying, fluff piece about their friendship.
This episode, which will likely be as quickly forgotten as so many before it, is another perfect distillation of how not just Trump, but his entire campaign team, is completely void of all human decency and empathy, so much so that they would knowingly exploit images of children, without their parents’ consent, to create overtly racist propaganda designed to trick people into rejecting actual news in favor of lies.
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