“Isn’t pro wrestling fake?”
The US President has tweeted a short video clip of him wrestling a person with the CNN logo for a head.
The clip is an altered version of Donald Trump’s appearance at a WWE wrestling event in 2007, in which he “attacked” franchise owner Vince McMahon in a scripted appearance.
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After the president’s tweets, Reddit users expressed disbelief at the president’s use of the clip.
It was also retweeted by the official presidential Twitter account, @POTUS, operated by the White House.
Mr Trump has repeatedly clashed with the CNN news network, which he calls “fake news”.
CNN’s top White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who has been critical of the White House’s attitude to the press, simply tweeted: “Isn’t pro wrestling fake?”
Isn’t Trump fake? He’s about as authentic a president as he is a pro wrestler.
Rajini Vaidyanathan says Trump’s insults of women journalists inspire others to join in.
During the election Donald Trump often taunted female reporters who covered him, which in turn encouraged a small section of his supporters to follow suit.
The most high-profile example of this was NBC’s Katy Tur, who was dubbed “Little Katy” and “third rate” by Mr Trump, who said her tweets were lies.
It led to her having secret service protection, for fear of attacks.
It wasn’t just Katy Tur. Other reporters, myself included, have been at the receiving end of online abuse, when covering Mr Trump. Some of his supporters have sent me racist and sexist messages, calling me everything from a “whore” and a “bitch”, to a “terrorist” and a “tea girl”.
And while men are targeted too, women bear the brunt of it when it comes to remarks about appearance, and judgements about intellect.
This has been a trend which pre-dates President Trump’s time in office, but Soraya Chemaly, the director at the Women Media Center’s Speech Project, argues the president’s language legitimises this behaviour.
“It falls into a pattern of him displaying a disgust for women and their bodies. This kind of examination of women is pretty standard in our culture – public commentary on women and the way they look fuels major sectors of the economy, so there’s really nothing that will stop the president,” she says.
We have always been at war with Women.
Wait……what? Pro wrestling is fake? But it always looked so real*. So it’s just play-fighting on steroids? I’m numb. Numb, I tells ya.
*I still chuckle whenever I think about the bravest wrestler I’ve ever seen. I was idly watching tv one evening 15 or more years ago (I’d trapped a nerve at the bottom of my spine and couldn’t get around very well and
….damn this smartarse phone. Anyway…
..I’d had too many painkillers to attempt reading a book), pro wrestling was on and the MC was introducing the wrestlers to the ring. The event took place in a huge sports stadium in Alabama (if memory serves; one of the southern states, anyway) with probably 60-70 000 spectators. The wrestler in question, whose name I forget, took the microphone and yelled how happy he was to be in Alabama (crowd hollered and cheered) at the world’s largest ever family reunion. (crowd’s mood suddenly flips, beer bottles, coins and seats start flying into the ring)
He didn’t get to wrestle; security had to hussle him out sharpish as the first of the spectators got into the ring to attack him, with many more still making their way down from the stands.
Ha! (to both your phone woes and the story). Clearly some people can’t take the sort of stereotyping jokes they happily dish out to others.
The US economy per Soraya Chemaly (2017):
The US economy per It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963):