Donald Trump's New Campaign Slogan Is From Horror Movie "The Purge"
With the release of “The First Purge,” the latest installment in the 5-year-old dystopian franchise about government-sponsored killing sprees, you might be wondering, “Huh, is President Donald Trump still planning on using that ‘Keep America Great’ slogan that was ripped straight from the horror movies?”
Well, readers, he is.
We waded into the complicated, literally horrifying waters to find out that, yes, Trump’s team has indeed filed applications to trademark the phrase. And no, the “Purge” creators are not surprised. Oh, and there’s a lone copyright applicant who could potentially stand in POTUS’s way.
To understand this saga, you need to go back to January 2017, when The Washington Post reported that Trump had revealed his new campaign slogan for 2020.
“‘Keep America Great,’ exclamation point,” he told the paper, seemingly off the cuff.
According to the Post, Trump called a lawyer in during the interview to trademark and register two different “Keep America Great” slogans ― one with an exclamation point and one without ― on the spot. “Got it,” the lawyer replied, and business seemed to be handled.
The only problem? Apparently unbeknownst to Trump, his lawyer and The Washington Post, the slogan had already appeared in a poignantly titled 2016 horror movie: “The Purge: Election Year.”
By using “Keep America Great” in its promotional materials, “Purge: Election Year” ― which, like its franchise predecessors, centers on the one night a year when people can legally murder the hell out of each other as an act of radical catharsis ― seemingly mocked Trump’s “Make America Great Again” phrase, effectively likening Trump’s America to its cinematic nightmare.
Two years later, Trump’s re-election campaign is actually trying to use “Keep America Great” itself, even though the horror movie connection went comically viral soon after the Washington Post interview.
At the time, we threw out some alternative slogans the president could use if KAG didn’t work out, including “Who will survive and what will be left of them?” from 1974’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” or “Be Afraid. Be very afraid.” from 1986’s “The Fly.” As of now, Trump hasn’t responded.
But as recently as last month, Trump told supporters in Wisconsin that he wanted to put “Keep America Great” on green hats.
In fact, by all indications, Trump’s team did file Intent to Use forms for the horror flick’s phrase a year ago with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Donald J. Trump for President Inc., the president’s official presidential campaign committee, submitted applications for “Keep America Great,” with and without exclamation points, on Jan. 18, 2017 ― two days before Trump was even inaugurated with those “record-breaking” crowds.
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and this seems like an idea the right-wingers in our country would dearly love - a chance to take their beloved guns out for one night a year when they could kill anyone they wanted, with no repercussions.
The movies downplay most of the racial animus that would certainly arise in real life. In real life it would be open season on POC and liberals in general. Oh, how the right-wing gun crazies would prepare for and execute their god-given "right" to kill others (a "right" given to them by "The New Founding Fathers" in the movie) and then go to church and pray to their god for the privilege to live in such a great country. 
I usually don't go in for violent crap like these movies, but the concept intrigued me, and then thinking about how the right-wing monsters in this country would truly love something like that in real life, gave me pause. They're very provocative movies.
