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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:36 PM May 2020

Trump tweets clip of 'Independence Day' with himself, allies edited in

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Saturday posted a heavily doctored clip from the 1996 movie "Independence Day" featuring himself as Bill Pullman's character delivering a motivational speech to GOP allies, who were also photoshopped into the video.

Charlie Kirk from Turning Point USA, Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity from Fox News, and several other Republican allies can be seen gawking at Trump's "speech," which is actually Pullman's monologue from the film.

The video was created by Twitter meme account Mad Liberals, an account dedicated to creating memes for Trump and other GOP figures.

-snip-

The video edit hit a relevant note, as the creator likened Trump's motivation to reopen the country to the following line in Pullman's speech: "And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday but as the day the world declared in one voice, 'We will not go quietly into the night!'"

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/498154-trump-tweets-clip-of-independence-day-with-himself-allies-edited-in



Trump, his allies, and his supporters are ALL delusional.



Trump's tweet, with the doctored clip:








The original clip from the film, where actor Bill Pullman is much closer to a real president than Trump could ever be:


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Trump tweets clip of 'Independence Day' with himself, allies edited in (Original Post) highplainsdem May 2020 OP
Looks like JibJab to me n/t FeelingBlue May 2020 #1
Nice to see that he's jacking himself off on social media while another 1,200 to 1,500... LudwigPastorius May 2020 #2
What a piss poor excuse for Scarsdale May 2020 #3
Trump didn't make the video. he just retweeted it. Girard442 May 2020 #8
must have a dick to take a pic. abakan May 2020 #11
He's like a deranged Walter Mitty. Solly Mack May 2020 #4
This! WestLosAngelesGal May 2020 #18
He's the schmuck who buys a trophy in a pawnshop. . . DinahMoeHum May 2020 #5
Don't forget tRump got a medal Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #20
A fake speach by a fake voice on a fake film... Lock him up. May 2020 #6
Difference between Whitmore and Trump is Whitmore was a hero and Trump is a zero. nt cstanleytech May 2020 #7
Hmmm...who owns the rights to Independence Day? I expect a lawsuit in 1,2,3... abqtommy May 2020 #9
That's just embarrassing abakan May 2020 #10
#theworstwing TheNewNumberTwo May 2020 #12
I thought it WAS The Onion BigmanPigman May 2020 #13
#dumptheturdNov3 TheNewNumberTwo May 2020 #30
That is the face I make whenever I hear his voice BigmanPigman May 2020 #31
The hardest thing to believe is that waist line. BlueIdaho May 2020 #14
Well, that's just weird. herding cats May 2020 #15
Weird is right. And pathetic. And creepy. Auggie May 2020 #23
A rebuttal is needed: no_hypocrisy May 2020 #16
Clicked the link for more ... virus blocker detected PHISHING attempt MichaelSoE May 2020 #17
You clicked on the link for the article at The Hill? Must've been an ad there causing that warning. highplainsdem May 2020 #21
He's a child. truthisfreedom May 2020 #19
Sometimes he acts like a 5 year-old and sometimes he's a sinkingfeeling May 2020 #22
OH! he has erred... Chainfire May 2020 #24
How much homegirl May 2020 #25
Can't Bill Pullman sue?????????? TNNurse May 2020 #26
Too funny. Reduced to stealing a liberal movie character. Hortensis May 2020 #27
Fake President Kid Berwyn May 2020 #28
If Dump were president in the movie, I would root for the aliens. roamer65 May 2020 #29
Can you imagine the reaction that would get from the right of Obama or Clinton retweeted a cringey Sapient Donkey May 2020 #32

LudwigPastorius

(9,155 posts)
2. Nice to see that he's jacking himself off on social media while another 1,200 to 1,500...
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

American citizens needlessly died today.


He is human garbage.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
3. What a piss poor excuse for
Sat May 16, 2020, 10:55 PM
May 2020

a president. He is a disgrace. Is making this pile of crap what he was doing instead of making sure medical workers has enough PPE's? So, HE was the cream of the gop crop that they chose to be their leader? What a disaster, he thinks he is a reality TV "star".

Girard442

(6,075 posts)
8. Trump didn't make the video. he just retweeted it.
Sat May 16, 2020, 11:45 PM
May 2020

Trump isn't even smart enough to tweet a dick pic.

DinahMoeHum

(21,794 posts)
5. He's the schmuck who buys a trophy in a pawnshop. . .
Sat May 16, 2020, 11:14 PM
May 2020

. . .polishes it up, then preens around and plays make-believe that HE won that trophy, that HE's a champion.
But when he takes a closer look at the brass, the reflection staring back at him is that
of a L-O-S-E-R.





#newrostrong

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,007 posts)
20. Don't forget tRump got a medal
Sun May 17, 2020, 06:57 AM
May 2020

... for Neatness in his military academy he was sent to for discipline (it didn't work).

... and some doofus gave him a Purple Heart at a rally in 2016. He kept it.

Lock him up.

(6,933 posts)
6. A fake speach by a fake voice on a fake film...
Sat May 16, 2020, 11:19 PM
May 2020

... by a fake pResident, all the while thousands die because he doesn't care to do the job and Putin is smilling.

abakan

(1,819 posts)
10. That's just embarrassing
Sun May 17, 2020, 12:10 AM
May 2020

and pathetic. What a sick sad little boy he is, who can't help screaming look at me, look at me, any time someone else might be getting some attention.

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)
13. I thought it WAS The Onion
Sun May 17, 2020, 12:39 AM
May 2020

when I saw it on DU at 2 PM. Then I read all the replies after my reply and realized I was not alone. That is the world's worst made video EVER! A cat dancing around on a keyboard could put something together that would be 1 million % more professional in appearance.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13446124

BigmanPigman

(51,609 posts)
31. That is the face I make whenever I hear his voice
Sun May 17, 2020, 06:59 PM
May 2020

as I run for my remote control's well used "mute bitton".

herding cats

(19,565 posts)
15. Well, that's just weird.
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:19 AM
May 2020

It definitely doesn't make me feel any safer, actually the exact opposite.

A megalomaniac self petting was my first thought.

no_hypocrisy

(46,122 posts)
16. A rebuttal is needed:
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:19 AM
May 2020

Bill Pullman reprising his role as President, but with a message about saving the country from Trump.

MichaelSoE

(1,576 posts)
17. Clicked the link for more ... virus blocker detected PHISHING attempt
Sun May 17, 2020, 05:33 AM
May 2020

Phishing attempt detected
2 minutes ago

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We blocked this phishing page for your protection:
https://display1.wowyowapi.com/

Chainfire

(17,549 posts)
24. OH! he has erred...
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:04 AM
May 2020

By the end of the day there should be dozens of parodies with this clip and different audio. He has opened the door to massive ridicule.

What an idiot he is.

homegirl

(1,429 posts)
25. How much
Sun May 17, 2020, 10:10 AM
May 2020

can the producers of the film Independence Day sue Trump and the GOP for? Every film has that statement at the end of the credits about "All Rights Reserved under penalty of law!

Trump posted it!!!

TNNurse

(6,927 posts)
26. Can't Bill Pullman sue??????????
Sun May 17, 2020, 11:04 AM
May 2020

Last edited Sun May 17, 2020, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)

I had a long discussion with someone on FB about this. He apparently works with media law. He said it was parody and therefore no cause to sue. I assured him that the definition of parody was comic and this certainly was not intended to be funny. He assured me it was protected use. I pretty much said the law should be inline with the actual definition.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
27. Too funny. Reduced to stealing a liberal movie character.
Sun May 17, 2020, 11:42 AM
May 2020


Reminds me yet again that today's Republicans don't have even one semi-great leader they can point to as their own. Sure, they claim Lincoln for lack of anything else, but he and the new Republican Party were the very antithesis of today's Republicans, and underneath most must know it. They invoke Lincoln's name but reject him. And now Bill Pullman's movie character.

Btw, down here in the deep south most conservatives do not know that the ruling classes didn't allow Lincoln's name on the ballots of almost all states, with most of their great-grandparents' loyally cheering that denial of their own rights. Cons of those days didn't like Lincoln at all, and southern cons were rabid on the subject.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
32. Can you imagine the reaction that would get from the right of Obama or Clinton retweeted a cringey
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:54 AM
May 2020

video like that with them in it instead? Of course they would never do such a thing, but if they did....

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