Y’all no doubt remember that video Scoop wrote about late last night that featured a clip of toddlers that went viral last year. The hilarious meme clip had a fake CNN headline that read “Terrified Toddler Runs From Racist Baby.” Scoop noted that it got slapped with a warning label by Twitter, and if you have a TV or computer you know the media, especially CNN, has been in paroxysms of histrionics all day about the joke clip.
Well Twitter has just REMOVED it entirely. CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked the literal dumbest and fakest question in the history of gotchas on Friday when he asked Kayleigh McEnany why Trump is “sharing fake videos on Twitter about two toddlers who are obviously showing a lot of love for one another— it seems as though he’s exploiting children”
Acosta kept talking but my brain collapsed into a black hole for a minute when Acosta said “exploiting children” so I missed the rest.
Under the guise of a copyright complaint (apparently filed – or solicited from – the family of the kid. you know, the family that let everyone else use it for a year), Twitter has now removed the video entirely.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020
Carpe Donktum, the Twitter user who made the clip, responded a few moments ago.
The most 2020 thing ever is…
Trump tweeting a meme about how CNN spins narratives on social media, which is immediately followed by CNN claiming the REAL story is that Racist Trump is exploiting children, which is then followed by Twitter flagging and removing the video. pic.twitter.com/amZT3qNP43
— Carpe Donktum🔹 (@CarpeDonktum) June 19, 2020
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In any case, if y’all missed it, here it is from YouTube. For now.
This post was updated to include the Law & Crime link above regarding the copyright holder.
Updating for this tweet too because ya just gotta retweet this one.
CNN's Jim @Acosta re-ups @CNNPR's claim that Trump sharing a @CarpeDonktum video was "exploiting children to make some sort of crass political point." Yes, the network that tried to ruin @N1ckSandmann….@PressSec @KayleighMcEnany was ready and she wasn't having it. pic.twitter.com/0Jpg84DQd6
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 19, 2020