Revisting Trump’s Mass Murder Video

Today the President of the United States posted an AI generated video depicting Trump violently assaulting comedian Stephan Colbert. This inspired me to give another look at an article I wrote seven years ago entitled “The Seditious Trump Mass Murder Video.” That article was about this video:

The video, adapted from the movie Kingsman: Secret Service, depicts a heroic Donald Trump entering a church filled with his enemies and graphically killing all of them. In the article seven years ago I provided a partial listing of those graphically killed by Trump and how they were murdered. It’s worth reproducing that now.

Individuals

Former President Barack Obama (shoved headfirst into church alter)

Peter Fonda (gunshot to the face)

MSNBC Anchor Rachel Maddow (gunshot to the head)

Representative Adam Schiff (gunshot to the head)

Former Senator John McCain (struck in back of head with gun [Note: McCain died in August 2018 from brain cancer])

Rosie O’Donnell (smashed in throat with Bible then stabbed in head with knife)

Representative Maxine Waters (repeatedly punched and thrown threw church window)

Senator Bernie Sanders (head set on fire)

MSNBC Reporter Mika Brzezinski (falls in front of Trump who shoots her in the head)

Senator Mitt Romney (gunshot to the head)

Harvey Weinstein (impaled on pole)

Former President Bill Clinton (impaled on Weinstein’s poll)

Former Senator Jeff Flake (shot in chest)

Hillary Clinton (stabbed in throat with lower receiver unit of gun)

Organizations

Bloomberg (gunshot)

Politico (gunshot to head)

“Fake News” (various ways several times)

NPR (shot in the back)

PBS (flipped onto back)

Obama Campaign (gunshot to the head)

The New Yorker (gunshot to the chest)

Black Lives Matter (gunshot to the head)

Vice News (gunshot to the face)

Slate (gunshot to the torso)

The Huffington Post (stabbed in the neck)

Buzz Feed (hit in crotch with Bible then throat slit with knife)

MSNBC (stabbed in head with knife taken from Rosie O’Donnell’s throat)

The Hill (shot with gun)

BBC News (punched out, neck broken)

The Guardian (gunshot to head)

CNBC (shot in back)

TPM (stabbed in chest)

CBS (shot in torso)

The Young Turks or TYT (stabbed in stomach)

CNN (impaled on stick through the throat)

I invite you to double check my work. This list is not complete. Various times Trump shoots or stabs things that cannot be identified. Others are killed by other people in the crowd.

While Trump did not personally post this video many of his followers did. A video debuted at the pro-Trump “American Priority” conference in October 2019 at Trump’s Miami resort this weekend depicts President Trump smugly, and gleefully, brutally murdering scores of media and political opponents. Speakers at that conference included Donald Trump Junior, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Ron DeSantis. You might also want to read the largely supportive comments for the video from MAGAs.

While Trump didn’t personally post that mass murder video, he did post a video of himself as King bombing “No Kings” protesters with fecal material.

The point of this is to compare these three videos (the Colbert video, the mass murder video, and the jet bombing video) to this:

The three videos mentioned did not result in criminal charges. The post of seashells by the seashore did. Comey is charged under 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) which reads:

“Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

How can the seashells by the seashore constitute felony threats but Trump’s video of his violently assaulting Stephen Colbert, his video using military jets to bomb Americans with shit, or a video graphically depicting Trump murdering dozens of people and organizations, not? In these four examples (including Comey’s seashells by the seashore), which seems most like a “true threat” (as required by law) and least like a true threat?

Trump takes aim at Peter Fonda in mass murder video