Twitter, Facebook remove 'racist baby' video posted by Trump

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC News

Facebook and Twitter both removed a video on Friday of a “racist baby” posted to President Trump’s social media accounts the previous day, in response to a copyright claim from one of the children’s parents.

Twitter labeled the video tweeted by President Donald Trump on Thursday night as “manipulated media” because it attributes to news media a nonexistent story on race.

A Facebook spokesperson told NBC News in a statement, "We received a copyright complaint from the rights holder of this video under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and have removed the post.”

A Twitter spokesperson provided a similar statement: “Per our copyright policy, we respond to valid copyright complaints sent to us by a copyright owner or their authorized representatives.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/twitter-labels-video-tweeted-trump-manipulated-media-n1231511?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

[Bengus81]

1. I just read that on CNN..WTF???

I've seen those two kids video many times,and Trump takes the vid and reverses it??

[orleans]

2. he didn't do it. but i guess he liked the way it looked when

some douchebag fucked the video up

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The douchebag was Logan Cook, whom Trump invited to the White House last year

He is one of Trump's favourite douchebags, and Trump has used his fake videos many times: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2518964

I expect the Trump campaign has paid Cook.

[Skittles]

4. an AMERICAN president, exploiting TODDLERS for his endless narcissistic need

Trump is SO FUCKING PATHETIC

[DVDGuy]

3. They really are quite incompetent, aren't they? n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. I think Democrats should make a new ad from it

While the story is still fresh. Showing the whole interaction.
Maybe with comments from the parents. Together with an anti-racism message about how nobody starts off as a racist. And as the ad runs through with the white child chasing the black child, the image could again go b&w, with ominous music, to remind people of what the R's did, with a message....some do grow up as racists and use innocent children as props to push their racist messages. Or something like that.

But I don't expect Democrats to ever be that bold in their ads.

[riversedge]

7. It is going to be a LONG--nasty summer with Trump and his racist rhetoric stinking up the USA