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Donald Trump Jr.'s video of himself in a gun-filled room slamming teachers unions for fighting to keep children out of classrooms did not go over well with some Twitter users, who accused the former president's son of advocating for violence against teachers.
Donald Trump Jr.’s latest Instagram post is getting plenty of reaction from social media users, but perhaps not the kind he had in mind. The disgraced former president’s eldest son tried to make the claim for his father’s over-arching greatness when compared with the man who defeated him ignominiously in a landslide election last November despite the spurious claims of a stolen election. Don Jr gets a new role as one of dad's 'chief political advisors': Ex-President's eldest son becomes integral part of his potential 2024 White House run. Wrote on Twitter that 'Free.
'The degenerate son of the former president stood in front of a wall of guns while declaring teachers 'out of control,' seemingly oblivious to the many educators across this country killed by gun violence,' the Democratic Coalition tweeted.
The degenerate son of the former president stood in front of a wall of guns while declaring teachers 'out of control,' seemingly oblivious to the many educators across this country killed by gun violence.#StopTrumpsTerrorhttps://t.co/QfLGwfoy44
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) February 22, 2021The group was responding to Trump's video in which he blasted teachers unions for holding back the return of in-person instruction from a gun-filled room.
'You've seen the way in the last couple of months — the way they've basically held up progress, prevented schools from opening,' Trump said on Twitter while linking to the video. 'The teachers union and those representing them have definitely failed our children in terms of education and everything else.'
The teachers unions are out of control & are destroying our kid’s futures!
A teachers Union leader was once quoted as saying almost verbatim “We’ll start worrying about the students when the students start paying union dues.”
Watch & RT My Thoughts!https://t.co/iWpEfrdRdr
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 20, 2021Some users thought that Trump's tweet should get him banned from Twitter.
'Dear @TwitterSafety: This guy posing with guns while trashing teachers' unions worries me,' education columnist Patti Bacchus tweeted. 'Posts like this can incite actual violence. @Twitter @TwitterComms.'
Dear @TwitterSafety: This guy posing with guns while trashing teachers' unions worries me. Posts like this can incite actual violence. @Twitter@TwitterCommshttps://t.co/5LmjwaQDJk
— Patti Bacchus (@pattibacchus) February 22, 2021'And I thought his dad was scary,' said former congressional candidate Elizabeth Hernandez.
And I thought his dad was scary....https://t.co/E84g7a02EH
— Elizabeth Hernandez for Congress (@LizForTX8) February 22, 2021Teachers unions from major cities across the country have resisted calls to return to the classroom, citing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in schools.
Meanwhile, President Biden has said he is aiming for a return to in-person instruction by the end of April, saying during a recent CNN town hall that the majority of students should be in the classroom five days per week by his 100th day in office.
Trump also accused Democrats and unions of ignoring scientific evidence that shows that school-age children are less likely to develop serious illnesses caused by COVID-19.
“Whatever happened to follow the science?” Trump asked in the video. “It seems that the Biden administration only follows the science when it actually suits them.”
Trump, long known as a gun rights advocate, was one of his father’s most trusted advisers when it came to gun-related issues. That reality became clear when the former president was being pressured to introduce expanded background check legislation, a move he didn’t make in part to his son’s lobbying effort against it.
Tags:News, Donald Trump Jr., Coronavirus, guns, Teachers Unions, Joe Biden
Original Author:Michael Lee
Original Location:Twitter erupts after Don Trump Jr. posts video in gun-filled room while bashing teachers unions
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louderwithcrowder.com ^ | MARCH 20, 2021 | BRODIGAN
Posted on 03/20/2021 12:16:55 PM PDT by ransomnote
On Friday, we had fun at Joe Biden's expense. We've been having a lot of fun at Biden's expense lately. Friday was extra special watching the president forget how to walk upstairs. Critics point to his age and obvious diminishing mental faculties for him forgetting it goes left, then right. The White House blamed the wind. The media said, 'sure, why not.' It was one of those moments where you regret not having the former president on Twitter. He would have totally been like, 'HAVE A GOOD TRIP, SLEEPY JOE! SEE YOU NEXT FALL! MAGA!'
The good news is that Big Tech hasn't deplatformed Donald Trump Jr. yet. He came in clutch with this hysterical video.
It wasn't the wind folks. pic.twitter.com/jYc01dBZCe
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 19, 2021
This is what we in the digital community call a 'meme.' Or, if it's not technically a meme, it's at least meme-adjacent. You splice two unrelated clips together to present them in an OBVIOUS and funny way. At no point was Don Jr. looking to mislead you into thinking his dad ACTUALLY knocked Joe Biden over with a golf ball. Physics-wise, it just doesn't make sense. Trump Sr. is in Florida. Joe Biden was in Atlanta. The sheer strength it would take for Trump to hit the golf ball to have it travel to the next state would be off the charts. Yes, even if it was as windy as the White House claimed it was.
But in case it wasn't obvious that, no, the former president DIDN'T bean the current president in the head, here's The Hill to let you know Don Jr. shared an EDITED video.
Trump Jr. shares edited video showing father knocking Biden down with golf ball https://t.co/G9i3vCCxo8pic.twitter.com/ULQG4TjT6l
— The Hill (@thehill) March 19, 2021
The 9-second clip begins with former President Trump on a golf course hitting a ball before cutting to footage of Biden from Friday when he stumbled twice on the stairs while boarding Air Force One for a trip to Georgia, with the edited video showing a golf ball hitting his head each time.
At best, a writer for The Hill is a bitter leftist without a sense of humor. At worse, they think that YOU are too stupid to realize that, no, President Trump's golf swing isn't so mighty and powerful it can pick someone off 500 miles away with sniper-like precision. Also, in case it comes up, Donald Trump didn't actually clothesline CNN. He was clotheslining Vince McMahon at WrestleMania 23. Someone just put the CNN logo over Vince's head. Oh, wait. THAT DID COME UP!
Memes are funny on their own. They are made funnier when the media overreacts to them. Donald Trump Jr. got a twofer with this one.
[edit by ransomnote: At the article link, the video below is embedded without commercials. I couldn't link to the video without commercials so the image below is linked to it on Youtube where it begins with a commerical that has to play for a short time before you can skip it.]
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Good grief. What does that say about the average US citizen who believe their crap? And these are the ones who are supposed to be able to read!
The ones who believe the crap by the commie media are the ones that vote Democrat..every time..the rest of us have brains
If the wind knocks down the President of the United States, then the President of the United States is too weak to be President of the United States.
Maybe a break wind event?
Joe could be knocked over with a feather. Kamala probably dropped a banana peel.
Any normal person would have walked carefully the rest of the way up the stairs after that first stumble. A moron tries to go right back to a jog, falls again, tries to go back to a jog and falls again.
Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr
Wait you’re telling me this is edited???
I’m sorry, I had no idea I was spreading this kind of gross disinformation.
9:11 AM · Mar 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
/sarc
Could be a moron.
But, probably an actor. A good one.
Wasn’t it already posted about 600 times?
Yeah hard to believe Biden shuffles on level ground but logs up stairs.
Remember when Hillary got tossed into the van like a side of beef and two hours later came walking out of her daughter’s house wearing sunglasses and suddenly having a fuller face?
They probably all have doubles.
That’s just too funny 🤣
Now my side hurts,
Thanks 👍
Donald Trump Jr On Twitter
Even President Trump! LOL. However, in POTUS's case, the diff is very obvious. Double is 40-50 pounds heavier, based at Mar -a-lago.
Umm. The wind, hey?
“Blow the Man Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08A-jXPVx68
Don Jr Tweets
That looks real to me.
WOW, the butthurt in the Hill comment section is delicious.
..What does that say about the average US citizen who believe their crap...
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These are the same people who bought the covid lie. Now they are saying: either get vaccinated or get covid and die. I wonder what happened to get covid and 99+%
live? What happened to the survival rate?
I went through Hell last year. Both my parents died, one at the beginning of covid, in hospice but “no visitors”. The other slowly starved to death. 2 months before my dad died I had access to him, but didn’t figure out he was starving until too late.
The dumb ass fear of covid caused immense suffering for millions of people. Including me and I’m not ready to forgive.
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