Trump Did Not Share a Racist Video: These Times Will Be Remembered as the Era of Hoaxes and Moral Panic

Update: This video by Damon Imani:

Le scandale du jour is President Trump sharing on TruthSocial (then deleting) a meme video by 𝕏erias of Democrats as zoo animals that opens with Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as apes (the video also depicts Joe Biden as an ape). Except that Trump didn’t share the video. A staffer using video capture produced and shared a clip from a documentary on the 2020 election that, as it was ending, recorded the autoplay preview (suggested by the algorithm) of the next video in the queue, which was a video by 𝕏erias. The image I share below is a fake. This post never appeared on Trump’s TruthSocial platform.

This post never appeared on Trump’s platform

The scandal is yet another hoax that elevates progressive offense-taking—for the most part, white progressives taking offense for a minority they see as children—to obscure the content of the actual video Trump shared. Progressives are throwing a monkey wrench (pun intended) into the SAVE Act (as well as to discredit Trump over immigration by making deportations appear racist). The SAVE Act, or Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, is a proposed US federal law that would change how people register to vote in federal elections. Specifically, it would amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to add strict documentation requirements for proving US citizenship before someone could register.

The very fact that this bill is moving its way through Congress and will certainly pass muster at the Supreme Court puts a lie to the claim by progressives that elections are purely a states’ rights matter (as if progressives grasp or could be depended upon to speak truthfully about the Constitution they seek to dismantle or make a dead letter). Article I, Section 4 Clause 1 of the US Constitution states: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations [emphasis added], except as to the Places of chusing Senators [who were then chosen by state legislatures].” Democrats, recalcitrant Confederates, want the public to doubt the power of the national government. The reality is that the federal government possesses awesome power—as it should.

Will Trump apologize for something he didn’t do? The media can’t stop asking him to. I hope not. That’d be like apologizing for a second of the next song in the radio queue on a friend’s mix tape as the current song fades out. Indeed, I’ll be damned annoyed if Trump apologizes. All this is noise to distract from what the video he actually shared was about: election fraud (see above). Smartly, the President is using every reporter’s question about the video he didn’t share to talk about the video he did share. Will the press pick up that thread? If they acknowledge it at all, then it’s to dismiss evidence that the 2020 election was stolen as a “conspiracy theory.” This fact they won’t dwell on at all: that the court that signed the warrant to seize ballots and related material from Fulton County in Georgia found probable cause to believe that Fulton County officials did, in fact, engage in fraud during the 2020 election.

So far, family and friends can’t stop clutching their pearls over Trump having allegedly offended the first black President and his elegant wife. Have you encountered this in your circles—this cult-like adulation of the Obamas? The current First Lady’s documentary, Melania, grossed roughly 7 million dollars in its US opening weekend, placing it third at the box office behind some bigger releases, a figure notable for a documentary. The Rotten Tomatoes audience score (PopcornMeter) stands around 99 percent positive—the largest gap between critics and audience ever recorded on the site. So offended by this was the Obama cult that they flocked en masse to Netflix to elevate Michelle Obama’s biopic Becoming.

Well, the Obamas’ shit stinks, too. Most hypocritically, progressives worship a man who honest observers tagged the “Deporter-in-Chief,” a President who formally deported millions of illegal aliens from the interior of the country, including US citizens (Obama’s error rate was 3.5 times higher than Trump’s), threw kids into cages (those images attributed to Trump were from the Obama era), and saw several dozen immigrants die in his detention facilities. The man also bombed numerous countries, overthrew the Libyan government, orchestrating the torture-murder of its leader, Muammar Gaddafi (Obama’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cackled about it), and even killed a US citizen, 16-year-old Abdulrahman Anwar al‑Awlaki, in a Predator drone strike in Yemen (foreshadowing the strike in a joke threatening the Jonas Brothers with Predator drones during the May 2010 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner). Just a few days ago, the former First Lady told people to boycott white stores. At least that’s what she does, she said on a talk show to loud applause.

It’s truly sad how dense people are. Truly sad, not just for them, but for all of us. These people vote. In threads across social media platforms, they’re desperately trying to make it appear as if Trump shared a racist meme video. I have intervened in posts on several platforms to tell people that he did not share the video they think he shared. “But the image of the Obamas depicted as chimps or gorillas appears in the video!” Yes, for a second at the end, but that’s the start of the video Trump did not share.

I know I don’t need to explain this to most of you, but I want to share the gist of what I have had to say to those who persist in insisting that Trump shared the video. They are essentially asking me to explain it to them like they’re five-year-olds. “So you admit he shared the video.” No. I won’t admit that because he didn’t. “But he deleted it, which proves he was wrong.” No, it doesn’t. When Trump learned that a second of a video he did not share could briefly be seen at the end of the video that he did share, and realized that political operatives were feigning offense to push yet another smear campaign, he deleted the video. He went out of his way not to offend fragile people who are offended by things he didn’t share or say. Trump knows better than anybody that he gets blamed for shit he doesn’t do. He isn’t admitting he’s wrong—and that’s why he won’t apologize (and why he shouldn’t). Deleting the video was an act of charity.

This is not difficult. So not difficult that I don’t believe any reasonably intelligent person really doesn’t get it. One second of the next video appears at the end of the video he shared, just like the beginning of a song in a crossfade on the radio can be heard while the song you have been listening to is fading out. If you’ve ever recorded the radio, which my generation did when creating mix-tapes, then the beginning of the next song you don’t want to listen to may briefly be heard at the end of the song you do want to listen to. If I share my mix-tape with you (and we used to swap mix-tapes back in the day), then I did not intend for you to also listen to the next song, even if you can hear its beginning at the end of the tape. You know that because I did not record that song. Crossfading is how radio programming works. Likewise, when you record a video from a video service, it may be the case that the next video in the queue can be seen at the end of the video that you wanted others to see.

NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo insists that the appearance of the second-long clip of Michelle and Barack was intentional. He wonders accusingly: Why this particular clip? Because the Obamas-as-apes open the 𝕏erias video, proving that it was the result of autoplay. Do people really think Trump sits up late at night inserting Obama-as-apes clips in video captures of documentaries about election fraud? Do people believe that Trump is the author of all of his posts on social media? I can tell you that he doesn’t, because we have video of how the posts are produced.

This is an exercise in pearl clutching so extreme that TDS sufferers are pretending as if the video Trump did not share was the video that he did share, which had nothing to do with 𝕏erias’s video. Either they’re too stupid to understand (and some are this stupid for sure), or they are misrepresenting what happened because they’re desperate to make Trump look like the racist that he isn’t. I have asked (rhetorically) whether this is really how a person wants to go through life, not by the force of fact and reason, but by the force of an ideological agenda. I ask this knowing some people want to live their lives this way. I’m inviting myself to add that this is a rather pathetic way to live. It makes a man look like a moron. And he looks all the more moronic when he can’t understand something so easily understandable.

There’s a name for the cognitive error being committed here, which I have written about several times on this platform. It’s called motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is not the mark of a serious, objective thinker. Rather, it sets up a person for participation in the most vulgar propaganda production—“Good people on both sides” and all the rest of it. Do facts matter? If they do, then one concedes the obvious. If they don’t matter, then may God have mercy on their souls (and bless their little hearts to boot).

The rank-and-file are sustained in their false beliefs by the progressive-captured corporate state media apparatus. National Public Radio appeals to a purported record that “Trump has a history of making racist remarks toward Black [sic] people and other people of color.” The examples the propaganda outlet cites: “For years, he [Trump] pushed the false narrative that Obama was not born in the U.S., and he has previously used derogatory language to describe African countries.”

How is suspecting Obama of not being a natural-born citizen racist? Because Obama is black? That doesn’t follow. Whites can be suspected of not being natural-born citizens, as well. How did Trump describe African countries? “Shit-holes.” How is that racist? What does it mean to say a place is a shit-hole? A shit-hole is chaotic and unsafe, dirty and run-down (decay, poor infrastructure, trash), low quality of life with few opportunities, and poorly managed or neglected. Are the African countries he’s referencing shit-holes or not? If Somalia is not a shit-hole, what is it? (Although, in that country’s defense, I learned this morning that Somalia is providing all its citizens with photo IDs so they can’t vote illegally. Looks like the SAVE Act became law there.)

This is why definitions matter. The left uses racism to describe any conservative or liberal who does not toe the progressive line. But racism must have a definitive meaning, or it will be used, as it was on Enoch Powell, as a term of abuse. Racism does not apply to criticisms of culture. It does not intrinsically apply to questions of immigration. Nor does it apply to religious faith. Moreover, racism is not merely the recognition that human beings belong to different races, understood as abstract constellations of phenotypic characteristics emergent from observation of factor analysis.

Rather, racism is the belief that the races can be hierarchically ranked according to traits such as behavioral tendencies, cognitive abilities, and moral aptitude. That constitutes the ideology of racism. Racism in practice, by contrast, is a system of institutions, laws, and policies organized around and enforcing that hierarchical worldview. There is nothing in Trump’s history that supports a claim that he is a racist, either ideologically or practically. The Republican Party is not racist. America is not a racist country. (See What’s Racist About Islamophobia?; Race, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Problem of Conceptual Conflation and Inflation; Muslims are Not a Race. So why are Academics and Journalists Treating Them as if They Were?)

Many on social media are noting that the 𝕏erias meme video depicts Democrats as all manner of zoo animals. Because it’s a takeoff on Disney’s The Lion King, progressives object that there are no chimps or gorillas in the animated classic. But there are chimps and gorillas in Africa, the continent where our species originates. A Washington Post article objected to the depiction of the Obamas as “primates.” Homo sapiens are primates. In fact, we are, alongside chimps, gorillas, and orangutans, the only extant species of great apes in the world. Joe Biden was also depicted as an ape in the 𝕏erias meme video. Is Trump not referred to as an orangutan because of his frequent use of bronzer (which is darkened in media-manipulated images) and his trademark hairstyle? That’s not racist? “But whites haven’t historically been portrayed as apes!” Really? Irish people were depicted in cartoons as ape‑like or simian in 19th‑ and early 20th‑century British and American media. And contrary to the claim by whiteness historians, the Irish were always considered white. There were never separate water fountains for those of English descent and those of Irish descent.

What lies behind the repeated charge of racism is projection. Since its inception, Democrats have been the party of racism—whether as representatives of slavocracy, Jim Crow segregation, or now DEI. Democrats are the party of administrative rule when in power and separatism when out of power. Democrats are the party of transnational corporate capitalism. Trump is Public Enemy No. 1 because he represents the original purpose of the Republican Party: advancing the American system, putting the country first, and insisting on equality before the law. Democrats must sustain the illusion that Republicans are the party of white supremacy to keep the public from remembering that Democrats are. This is why they’re so quick to take offense for the sake of the minorities they infantilize. Control over the major sense-making institutions—the culture industry (ready for Bad Bunny’s NFL half-time show tomorrow?), educational institutions, and the mass media—gives them immense power to sustain the illusion.

We’ve been here before. The last time we were here and failed to head the insurrectionists off at the pass led to three-quarters of a million dead Americans. The root cause of the Civil War was Democrats deciding that they had had enough of the Republic that threatened this way of life, namely, paternalistic control over an infantilized minority. Disloyalty and disorder are passed down through the generations via the Democrat DNA. Today, the Party exploits immigrants like it used slaves yesterday: for cheap labor and as bodies padding the census (look into what the three-fifths compromise was really about). Trump, like Lincoln before him, is a tyrant. Because Republicans gerrymander districts, Democrats must gerrymander the districts of the states they control to entrench electoral advantage. They’re prepared to burn the country to the ground to prevent mass deportations and undermine election integrity. As the French saying goes, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la mĂȘme chose.”

After arguing with a relative about the alleged Trump post on TruthSocial in a series of direct messages (where it was stated as fact that Trump cut out the Obamas heads and glued them onto cartoon apes), I was asked if I had any criticisms of Trump. Behind the question is the suggestion that I am incapable of criticizing the President. Yes, of course, I have criticisms—and of Republicans more broadly. Trump should’ve, from the beginning, invoked the Insurrection Act and dealt forcefully with those interfering with law enforcement operations. Republicans must put an end to the sanctuary cities and get behind mass deportations. And they must pass the SAVE Act—even if it means abandoning the filibuster (which Democrats will do as soon as they regain power, which is almost certain in light of Trump’s hesitancy in acting forcefully to honor his campaign promises). The neoconfederate rebellion against the Union must be suppressed, and our elections secured, if we are going to have a country. And the Islamization of America—and more broadly its Third Worldization—must be stopped.

Finally, I have some advice for the fragile: if opinions hurt your feelings, get over it. Don’t try to control or punish those who say things you don’t like. They don’t live for you. They’re not children. You’re not their father. Nor are you a child who needs protection from expressions and opinions you find offensive. You may feed off of offense-taking and virtue-signalling, but, in the end, those who seek the end of America will live in a shit-hole along with the rest of us.

One more thing. This is fake, too, but superb nonetheless.

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