A moment to monkey with the code
Oh so that’s which movie it is. I’ve never seen it (and have no desire to).
A few hours after taunt-tweeting at Laurence O’Donnell, suggesting the MSNBC anchor cried when forced to admit that, yes, the President made a lot of money on The Apprentice (a dubious claim that has been debunked before), but a few hours before he retweeted a pic of new Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany done up like Supergirl, Trump shared a “deep fake” video in which his own head was superimposed on Pullman’s as he gave the St. Crispin’s Day-esque speech from the Roland Emmerich’s 1996 film Independence Day.
In which The Enemy was From Space, so not really all that applicable, but whatevs.
The White House itself did not create this video. It appears to be the work of the “@mad_liberals” Twitter account, one of Trump’s recently applauded “keyboard warriors.” However, the fact that the video is embedded within Trump’s tweet, and not a simple retweet or quote tweet, means that somebody (not likely Trump) took a moment to monkey with the code before blasting it to 80 million followers.
Because it’s totally appropriate for a president to let us all know that he fantasizes himself as a younger handsomer slimmer movie star confronting An Enemy From Space. There’s nothing at all pathetic and risible about it.
Oh, Independence Day was a rotten movie. But at least that speech is totally anti-Trumpian. Let’s put our differences aside and defeat our common enemy.
With Trump, of course, it’s “Let’s embrace and inflame our differences and call it a day.”
Not only was it a shitty movie, the little monologue is melodramatic cheez whiz. Trump’s bulbous head on it does nothing, there’s no humor, no inspiration, and no reality. Then later Kaylee has a Supergirl costume on, amidst sprinklings of “obamagate” in all caps. It’s all fiction, except for the fact that this is the stupidest, most embarrasing president in history. His groupie offspring too, and their spouses, an embarrassing, corrupt bunch of idiots. They need to be gone. Really, there are 90,000 odd American citizens dead, and he’s posting his press secretary in a Supergirl outfit? These people are the worst.