You Will Anyway: This video is absolute crap

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

This video is absolute crap

Why can't Republicans make better videos?

Also...

After Trump posted the video on Twitter, people quickly began pointing out that the music is from Hans Zimmer's score for the Batman movie, specifically the track "Why Do We Fall."

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 re-election campaign. In less than three hours it had already amassed over 1 million views, but it might not be up much longer.

Buzzfeed

"Appeared to be" is right. It's just a whole bunch of 2-second video clips that seem related only in that many of them show Trump. The others are often puzzling.

The roughly two-minute video juxtaposes brief shots of prominent Democrats — from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to comedians Rosie O'Donnell and Amy Schumer — against images of Trump from his first two years in office, including his meetings with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and Brazil's far right president Jair Bolsonaro.

Dramatic text exclaims "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they call you racist." There is no spoken dialogue — instead, a driving, dramatic score plays underneath everything, crescendoing just as Trump raises his fist into the air.

Amazingly poorly constructed and bereft of clarity. Why does it start out with images of Obama? Why does it show Hillary? Faces people may not even recognize? The text itself is odd. I think the images are from his first campaign, but I could be wrong.

The video appears to be lifted from a YouTube video posted to a r/The_Donald/ reddit thread. The video by MateyProductions cites Zimmer's score, but it's unclear if permission to use it was obtained.

If Warner Brothers is suing, I'd say it's damned clear that it wasn't.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

Indeed.

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