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Donald Trump Jr. one-ups his dad with new Instagram that shows the president shooting down ‘CNN’ – AOL

Less than a week after President Donald Trump posted a video on Twitter edited to show the president body slamming the CNN logo, Donald Trump Jr. is continuing the anti-media meme war.

On Saturday, Donald Trump Jr. posted a video on Instagram that shows footage from "Top Gun" edited to appear as if Donald Trump is shooting a missile at a jet covered with the CNN logo. The CNN jet explodes after being hit by a missile from the Trump jet (the president's face is superimposed over that of Tom Cruise's "Maverick" character).

According to the Daily Caller, a far right news site, the video was originally posted on Twitter by the website's chief video editor, Richard McGinnis.

Trump Jr. reposted the video from Old Row Sports, a website owned by Barstool Sports.

President Trump has been extensively criticized for threatening the media by posting the video that appeared to portray him assaulting "CNN."

"It is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters," CNN said in a statement released Sunday after Trump's tweet went out.

However, supporters argued that Trump was merely attempting to communicate his views to the country, as he believes the media has treated him unfairly.

"There's a lot of cable news shows that reach directly into hundreds of thousands of viewers, and they're really not always very fair to the president," homeland security adviser, Thomas Bossert, told ABC's "This Week." "So I'm pretty proud of the president for developing a Twitter and a social-media platform where he can talk directly to the American people."

Trump's body slam video is still up on Twitter, despite arguments that it and other tweets from the president could violate the social network's abuse and harassment policy. Instagram, on the other hand, is known for more actively enforcing its anti-harassment policy, so Trump Jr.'s meme may not be up for long.

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Iowa Woman Pleads Guilty To Voting Twice For Donald Trump – HuffPost

An Iowa woman pleaded guilty to election misconduct this week after being accused of illegally voting twice for Donald Trumplast year, according to The Associated Press.

The woman, 56-year-old Terri Lynn Rote,reportedly cast a ballot during early voting in Polk County and attempted to cast a second one at a satellite voting location, where she was arrested. Rote told police she voted twice because she believed Trumps claims that the 2016 election would be rigged and thought her first ballot would be changed to a vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton, according to CBS News.

Rotes plea comes as Trump has focused national attention on voter fraud. He has claimed 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally last year in the 2016 election, but has offered no evidence to support that claim. Multiple investigations, including one by the Justice Department under President George W. Bush, have found that while a handful of people such as Rote do vote illegally, it is not a widespread phenomenon.

Rotes attorney told the court in January that she believed her client had cognitive limitations and a mental health disorder. Sentencing is set for Aug. 15, and Rotes attorneys are recommending two years probation with community service.Election fraud can be punished in the state by up to five years in prison, according to the AP. Prosecutors agreed to drop a perjury charge against Rote because she pleaded guilty to a felony charge, the AP reported.

Punishments for illegal voting vary from state to state. In February, for example, a Texas mom and noncitizen was sentenced to eight years in prison for voting in U.S. elections and faces likely deportation. She said she didnt know she was ineligible.

In April, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), secured his first plea from a noncitizen who admitted to voting. The man was put on unsupervised probation for up to three years and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.

In North Carolina, by contrast, a prosecutor declined to even bring chargesagainst a woman who admitted she voted for Trump on behalf of her deceased mother in 2016.

Iowa enacted a voter ID law earlier this year, despite concerns it would make it more difficult to vote. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate (R) pushed the bill, even though he said the states elections were already fair and clean.

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Donald Trump and the decline of the West: Ten thousand years of civilization and we end up with this guy? – Salon

In trying to reckon with Donald Trumps bizarre speech in Poland on Thursday, which was among the most troubling events of his troubling presidency, I couldnt help thinking about Mahatma Gandhis supposed quip when asked by a British reporter what he thought of Western civilization: He thought it sounded like a good idea. As with so many famous quotations, the story is almost certainly apocryphal: It did not appear anywhere until almost 20 years after Gandhis death. But it endures for a reason, because it reflects the profound ambivalence and self-regard that lie at the very heart of the Western intellectual tradition.

President Trump professes no such ambivalence. He apparently thinks Western civilization is a good idea too, although its by no means clear what he thinks he means by that term and he is constitutionally incapable of irony or double meaning. Various commentators, including Salons Amanda Marcotte, have already pointed out that the propagandistic mishmash Trump delivered in Warsaw was aimed as usual at his most virulent supporters, and channeled a current of racism and white nationalism so overt it can hardly be called subtext.

In this context, Western civilization presumably means the culture of white people in Europe and North America, as if that could be described as one coherent and continuous phenomenon, and as if any of those terms could be clearly defined. On one hand, Trump is deploying a false and dangerous form of mythology for narrow-minded, present-tense political purposes. (Breaking news, I know!)

Of course he doesnt understand anything about the long and complicated legacy of what is conventionally called Western civilization, and if he did he would be against it. Trumps self-appointed status as defender of the West is primarily about excluding or vilifying Muslims and other immigrant groups, and secondarily about marginalizing those Westerners who believe that pluralism and cultural diversity are in fact central values of our civilization (at least in its better moments).

On the other hand, there is a deeper level of historical irony at work here, one that Trump cannot possibly perceive. Its possible that Steve Bannon, the supposed Svengali in his supposed doghouse, has some awareness of this irony, filtered through his discount-store, conspiracy-theory understanding of history. One could indeed perceive Donald Trump as the symbolic end point of Western civilization, or at least as the fulfillment of its most diminished and malicious tendencies. After Plato, Shakespeare and Descartes after all the Dead White Males who did terrible things or magnificent things but were undeniably Important we wind up here, with an orange reality-TV troll as the democratically elected leader of the most powerful nation in history.

Its tempting to say that Donald Trump rose to his current position by way of a massive historical accident, despite the fact that he knows nothing and understands nothing. But I think thats almost entirely upside down, and is another way of insisting that the current situation in the United States isnt as bad as it looks, and can be remedied with a few replacement parts. Trump was elected president precisely because he is an arrogant ignoramus who spews out politically incorrect bigotry unsupported by any evidence. Furthermore, he has an unparalleled understanding of our cultures most central elements: the marketing and branding of fame, the power of mass media, and the extent to which image and rhetoric can reshape or even replace reality.

I am reminded again of historian Joachim Fests famous discussion of whether it was acceptable to describe Adolf Hitler as a great figure in world history, despite all the obvious reasons one might not want to. Fest argued, in effect, that those in postwar Germany who sought to minimize Hitlers importance were also trying to deny the extent to which Hitler had outwitted, manipulated and dominated them.

Hitlers peculiar greatness is essentially linked to the quality of excess. It was a tremendous eruption of energy that shattered all existing standards. Granted, gigantic scale is not necessarily equivalent to historic greatness; there is power in triviality also. But he was not only gigantic and not only trivial. The eruption he unleashed was stamped throughout almost every one of its stages, down to its final collapse, by his guiding will.

He also had an amazing instinct for what forces could be mobilized at all and did not allow prevailing trends to deceive him. The period of his entry into politics was wholly dominated by the liberal bourgeois system. But he grasped the latent oppositions to it and by bold and wayward combinations seized upon these factors and incorporated them into his program. His conduct seemed foolish to political minds, and for years the arrogant Zeitgeist did not take him seriously. The mockery he earned was justified by his appearance, his rhetorical flights, and the theatrical atmosphere he deliberately created. Yet in a manner difficult to describe he always stood above his banal and dull-witted aspects.

As I have previously observed, if you update the terminology here and there, Fests description appears to describe our current president with uncanny accuracy. (Although the final collapse of the Trump phenomenon remains in the unknown future, and further away than many wish-casting Democrats hope.)

Trump has never sounded more like Hitler than he did the other day in Warsaw, where the historical irony fell from the sky like a fluke summer snowstorm. Poland was of course the first nation invaded by Hitlers troops in the opening chapter of World War II, and the home of the worst of Hitlers death camps devoted to exterminating the Jewish people. Trump was supposedly there to celebrate the Poles resistance to Hitler, and the only fair thing to say about that is that some did and some definitely didnt. Every moment of that peculiar spectacle had at least a double meaning, none of them salutary.

To be clear, drawing the rhetorical and ideological parallels is not to say that Trump is Hitler, or that he is like Hitler in the most important ways. At worst, Trump is a third-generation photocopy with the background washed out, or a bad actor playing a character he has glimpsed on TV but does not understand.

Hitler presented himself as the defender of Western civilization too, although the alien invaders who were said to be destroying it from within were of course not Muslims but members of another religious and cultural minority. As Frankfurt School cultural critics like Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer argued, Hitler could be understood to embody certain insidious tendencies that ran just below the surface of European civilization and were especially strong in Germany, which viewed itself (with some justification) as home to the finest poets, philosophers and musicians of the modern age.

In their landmark work Dialectic of Enlightenment, Horkheimer and Adorno suggested that the mythology of the Dark Ages had never been conquered by the supposed Enlightenment, only repressed, and that it had reappearedin spectacular fashion, circa 1932, in the personage of the little Austrian corporal with the ridiculous mustache. Our situation in America circa 2017 is not quite like that: We have no dialectic and no enlightenment, only myth.

Hitler and the Nazis claimed to be huge fans and defenders of Western high art and high culture, in a middlebrow, anti-modernist vein, as exemplified by their embrace of composer Richard Wagner. (Who was a vicious anti-Semite and a generally terrible person, but also died six years before Hitler was born and cannot be held responsible for the latters crimes.) No such branding maneuver is necessary today.

It is inconceivable that Donald Trump has ever willingly sat through a Wagner opera or any other taxing work of old-school high culture. For that matter, if he ingests anything from the cultural sphere at all except endless amounts of cable news and hilarious right-wing internet memes, we dont hear about it. Even Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush felt obliged to express enthusiasm for various bland and deracinated forms of art, literature and music. (You know: The Gershwin songbook at the Kennedy Center; concerts by some old guys in Hawaiian shirts with a halfway plausible claim to be the Beach Boys.) Trump, perhaps to his credit, doesnt even fake it.

So what exactly the president means when he praises the strength and resilience of Western civilization is deliberately left unclear. Since he self-evidently doesnt give a crap about any of that traditions cultural, philosophical and artistic accomplishments and would no doubt deem most of them to be fake news and/or pretentious bullshit we are left with other possibilities. Its all about consumer capitalism and white rage, pretty much. The president of the United States sending angry tweets from his gold-plated toilet seat, with an empty tub of Hagen-Dazs beside him. Theres Western civilization for you.

Trump offers nothing remotely close to the elaborate pseudo-scientific racism of the Nazis, under which the so-called Aryans would rule the world but various lesser grades of white folks with northern European backgrounds would also get a sweet deal. Maybe some of his alt-right nerd followers still obsess about that stuff but who needs it? Trumpian racism is simply rooted in a dumbass, anti-historical vision of the past, a vaguely articulated fiction that until some relatively recent point (probably the 1960s) our countries were a certain way i.e., overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly Christian, culturally homogeneous and dominated by men and had been that way forever.

It probably does no good to observe that while the fantasy of a lost golden age recurs throughout history, this dad-shorts, #MAGA iteration is beyond any serious doubt the dumbest version ever constructed. It is quintessentially American, in the sense that it is too naive and weak-minded to acknowledge its innate cruelty. The Nazis, who if they had nothing else had a theory of history, would have found it hilarious and childish.

To start with, there is no country in Europe or the Americas or anywhere else in the world that has not been shaped and reshaped by waves of migration and immigration, or by conflict, conquest, turmoil and change. The island nation where my grandparents were born provides a valuable case in point. Although Ireland is often presented, in the most simplistic variety of nationalism, as the home of an ancient, homogeneous and ethnically unitary civilization, that is more myth than history. (If the myth often seems like harmless tribal romance, it has also had darker consequences.) In reality, the people of modern Ireland largely resulted from centuries of violent collision between Celtic, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon and Norman cultures, and the full story is considerably more complicated than that.

Traces of Iberian and North African DNA can be found to this day among people on the southwestern coast of Ireland. (Folk wisdom has long held that such influences accounted for the black Irish combination of dark hair and olive skin.) As for Celtic culture, the source of so many bad American tattoos, it isnt as ancient as all that and did not originate in Ireland. The Celts first appear in the archaeological record around 3,000 years ago in central Europe, roughly in present-day Austria or Slovakia. Of course they had come from someplace else before that, and when they were driven west into France, Spain and the British Isles they conquered or displaced the people who lived in those places, about whom not much is known. Recent genetic research suggests there may in fact have been multiple waves of pre-Celtic people, some with roots in the southern Mediterranean and the Middle East, others who came from the steppes of Russia or Ukraine.

So if I describe myself as a white person of largely Irish ancestry, its a statement of fact with an extremely limited horizon of information. It does not connect me to some essential, pure and unchanging culture but to a little green island that has seen lots of turbulent history. Go back more than a few generations, and like everyone alive today I could have ancestors almost anywhere: Sardinia? Lebanon? Some village of mud huts on the Danube? If linguistics is any guide, everyone of European ancestry ultimately has roots on the Indian subcontinent and, of course, you and I and everyone else on this planet evidently share an African foremother.

As Gandhi apparently did not say (but probably believed), Western civilization is something of a mixed bag. But if the term can be said to describe anything, it describes a process of constant change, of conflict, ferment, fusion, cross-pollination and evolution. It has never prospered by erecting barriers between itself and the rest of the world. Indeed, the fundamental nature of Western civilization it is curious, acquisitive, voracious, questioning means it can never really do that.

Donald Trump may pay lip service to Western civilization as a pallid, steady-state realm of Great Men writing Great Books he has not read and making Important Speeches he does not understand. But thats no more than a thin veneer pasted on top of the version his followers really want, a racial fantasyland of full employment for white men and zero immigration. Neither of those things has ever existed in the past or will ever exist in the future. They have nothing to do with civilization, except insofar as they misinterpret it as a fortress rather than a process. They have nothing to do with history, except as an attempt to stop it from happening. That wont work, of course. But this moment is likely to shape our history and our civilization, and not in a good way.

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The First Lady of Poland Smoothly Avoided Shaking Donald Trump’s Hand [Updated] – Vanity Fair

Donald Trump has only been in office for six months, but he already has a streak of awkward handshakesor in this case, snubswith world leaders. As the president and First Lady were greeting the Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, in Poland on Thursday, Kornhauser-Duda appeared to pass over the president and instead shook Melania Trumps hand.

The video, which quickly went viral, shows the president turning toward Kornhauser-Duda for a handshake as she swiftly walks by him. Trump looks bewildered at this apparent rejection. (She did, later, shake the presidents hand after all.)

But this interaction is only the latest fumble in Trumps social interactions. In February, Trumps meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resulted in what looked like an [uncomfortable power struggle] as Trump held on to the Abes hands for nearly 19 seconds. The president has a reputation for this kind of handshake, which CNN deemed the grab and yank in a compilation video featuring political leaders from Vice President Mike Pence to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

There was also that time in January when Trump held on to British Prime Minister Theresa Mays hand as they walked the White House colonnade. It is hard to forget, too, the presidents refusing to shake German Chancellor Angela Merkels hand in March, despite her actually asking him to do so for a photo op. It looks like they finally got that handshake in at the G20 Summit on Thursday, though Merkel appears to be slightly startled.

And do we even need to get into the Melania hand graze seen round the world? O.K. fine, we have. . This article has been updated to reflect that President Trump and Kornhauser-Duda did eventually shake hands.

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Donald Trump vs. CNN: How the President Is Trolling the Media Into Oblivion – Newsweek

The president of the United States of America is a shitposter.

Its not an elegant turn of phrase. But it is, I think, the correct terminology to capture a political moment so monstrously stupid that even Jerry Springer finds it embarrassing. To shitpost, according to the scholarly journal Urban Dictionary, is to make utterly worthless and inane posts on an internet message board, particularly those involving memes or low-quality visuals.

And the presidents latest act of shitpostingtweeting out a video edited to show Trump wrestling, and beating up, the CNN logohas flung the 24-hour news network into a week-long controversy involving death threats, claims of blackmail and a Reddit user who calls himself HanAssholeSolo. Its very hard to imagine having to explain that sentence to a person from 2007. But frankly, its also pretty hard to explain that sentence to a normal person from 2017 who doesnt spend every waking moment following incremental developments in Trumps blustery war with the media. (Which, probably, is healthy.)

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Now, a week after Trumps tweet, CNN is accused of blackmailing the Reddit user behind the wrestling clip, and the networks journalists (and even some of their families) are being subjected to threats and harassing phone calls from pro-Trump trolls and Redditors. Curiously, the line from the CNN story that was interpreted as blackmail (a stretch) wasnt written even by the reporter. According to Gizmodo, it was added by a CNN executive as a legal safeguard, but the threatening tone proved disastrous. But as the #CNNBlackMail hashtag spread through the alt-right this week, things got ugly. These far-right trolls are really threatening people and coming after people, an anonymous CNN employee told The Daily Beast. Somebodys gonna do something stupid at some point.

For observers of Gamergate, these tactics are familiaronly now the digital mob is taking inspiration from the highest reaches of government. Trump frequently approaches social media like a message board troll, so its darkly fitting that far-right trolls are adopting the basest instincts of internet forumculture to wage war against the presidents perceived enemy: CNN.

Trump cant win a war against CNN in the courts. But he can continue to troll the network (and other media outlets) into chaos and disarray. Consider Trumps 2006 battle with the journalist Tim OBrien, who had published a book alleging that Trumps net worth was far lower than claimed. Trump sued the author for libel, and after a lengthy legal process, the case was eventually dismissed. But Trump was pleased: I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, he later told The Washington Post, and they spent a whole lot more. I did it to make his life miserable, which Im happy about.

Its not farfetched to think that Trump feels similarly pleased with himself for bringing chaos to CNN. (Jeffrey A. Zucker, the president of the network, has described Trumps behavior as bullying.) By casting journalists as villains in his administration, the president makes questions of objectivity even trickier to navigate. As the writer/comedian Sarah Cooper tweeted, Journalists aren't supposed to be the story, so by making them the story, Trump automatically makes them look biased in defending themselves.

If youre still confused about the state of the presidents war with CNN, heres an explainer.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 9. The writer is not allowed to see Trump's tweets anymore. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Q: Why is the president so mad at CNN? Trump has been regularly fuming about CNN, which reports critically on him (and which he calls Fake News), since the campaign days. But this particular wave of hostility seems to have been prompted by a retracted CNN story regarding a Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials. Three journalists resigned after CNN pulled the story. The president spent days gloating about this, though its worth noting that when he lies, nobody resigns or issues a retraction.

Q: What about that video? Did Trump really wrestle a guy from CNN? No. The video is an old clip of Trumps appearance at WrestleMania. The CNN logo was superimposed over anotherguys head.

Q: Where did the doctored video come from? Reddit, of course. CNNs Andrew Kaczynski did some digging and determined that the video originated with a Reddit user named HanAssholeSolo, whos left behind a sizable trail of racist and anti-Semitic posts (including a graphic showing CNN employees with Jewish stars next to their names). Mr. Asshole Solo apologized and deleted his other posts.

Q: "HanAssholeSolo? What kind of name is Its a Reddit username. If you havent spent much time on Reddit, feel free to keep it that way.

Q: I heard that CNN is blackmailing the pro-Trump Reddit guy. Is that true? Not exactlythough the outlet definitely botched how the story was handled. CNN tracked down the source of the video, but declined to publish his real name. Its reasonable for news outlets to take an interest in this Reddit user, since hes been involved in a big, newsworthy event; there was a clear public interest in how the violent video traveled from pro-Trump forums to the presidents Twitter feed. But the issue of anonymity is somewhat thorny, since the guy is a private citizen and, by most accounts, didnt give permission for Trump to use his video. He is not a public figure, and if doxed, he could be subject to threats or harassment.

Whats weird is that CNN granted HanAssholeSolo a sort of conditional anonymity. This passage from the story was widely interpreted as a threat to dox the Reddit user if he resumes his ugly behavior:

CNN is not publishing "HanA**holeSolo's" name because he is a private citizen who has issued an extensive statement of apology, showed his remorse by saying he has taken down all his offending posts, and because he said he is not going to repeat this ugly behavior on social media again. In addition, he said his statement could serve as an example to others not to do the same. CNN reserves the right to publish his identity should any of that change.

This is odd language to include in a news story. It makes it seem as though the promise of anonymity is transactional, in exchange for a promise not to misbehave. But it wasnt intended as blackmail. It was just sloppy wording. As Kaczynski noted on Twitter, the line was meant to express that CNN hadnt made any agreement with the man regarding anonymity. (If that paragraph was poorly phrased, it might be because it wasnt constructedby a writer; it was written by a network executive as a defensive measure to explain their sourcing decision, Gizmodo later found.)

I dont think CNN intended this as blackmail, Poynters ethicist concluded, but its easy to see how the unfortunate wording in the story could be easily misinterpreted. Its also easy to see that aggressive pro-Trump trolls might act in bad faith and attack CNNs reporters regardless of the anonymity issue. When Trump characterizes the media as the enemy of the American people, his most vociferous followers might regard it as a patriotic deed to harass journalists.

Q: Wait, I thought the wrestling video was made by a 15-year-old kid? No. This false detail spread quickly in early social media posts, stirring up anti-CNN fervor among Trump supporters inclined to believe that the network was threatening a minor. (Donald Trump Jr., for instance, tweeted: So I guess they weren't effective threatening the admin so they go after & bully a 15 y/o?) But it isnt true. Andrew Kaczynski, the CNN reporter who spoke to the Reddit user, has confirmed that he is an adult.

Trump did once retweet a 16-year-old boy bashing CNN, but that was a separate incident.

Whats going on at CNN now? Lots of unease, reportedly. Kaczynskis family is receiving dozens of harassing phone calls. So are reporters and executives at the network.

Why doesnt Trump just tell his followers not to target journalists with death threats or anti-Semitic memes? Well . That would require Trump to acknowledge that some of his followers make death threats and post anti-Semitic memes. Plus, Trumps tweet was interpreted as encouraging attacks on journalists. The larger issue isnt that the president dislikes CNN (which has mishandled plenty in recent weeks). Its that the president dislikes the fundamental notion of journalism holding power to account.

Are we going to be OK? At press time, we really dont know.

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