If you had somehow made it this far into Trump’s presidency without believing he is a racist, bigoted wanker, maybe this will do the trick.

During what was, even by Trump’s standards, a 24-hour tweetathon, he found time to bang out some downright disgusting videos.

He may have been trawling the Twitter account of Jaydan Fransen, deputy leader of British far-right group (racist group) Britain First, although one video was first retweeted by right-wing journalist Anne Coulter.

Before we get stuck in, here’s the Guardian with a few observations:

One of the videos Trump highlighted…purported to show a group of Muslims pushing a boy off a roof. Another claimed to show a Muslim destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary, and a third claimed to show a Muslim immigrant hitting a Dutch boy on crutches.

The credibility of the last video was immediately undermined when the the Dutch embassy in the US said the perpetrator of the violent act in the video was born and raised in the Netherlands.

We’ll put that video of the boy on crutches first:

VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017

Followed immediately afterwards by the second:

VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary! pic.twitter.com/qhkrfQrtjV

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017

The video of the Virgin Mary statue being destroyed was shot in 2013 in Qunaya, Syria, and shows an extremist cleric, Abo Omar Ghabr. Muslims have condemned ISIS and other extremist groups who have destroyed religious symbols.

And they say racist meltdowns often happen in threes so here’s the last video:

VIDEO: Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death! pic.twitter.com/XxtlxNNSiP

— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 29, 2017

Oh, that video? This was filmed in Egypt during the 2013 overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi. One man was hanged after being found guilty of the crime.

Sorry, I’m just a little sick to my stomach that the president of the United States would share this shit.

Theresa May wasn’t impressed:

Theresa May’s spokesman said on Wednesday: “Britain First seeks to divide communities by their use of hateful narratives that peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people. British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values this country represents, decency, tolerance and respect.”

You think Donald was going to let that slide? Of course not:

We know that POTUS loves to have a go at widows and widowers (like Army Sgt. La David Johnson and his widow), so I guess it’s only a matter of time until Brendan Cox gets called out:

Thomas Mair, who murdered the Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox one week before the EU referendum in 2016, shouted “Britain first!” when he fired his gun. Cox’s widower, Brendan, said on Wednesday that Trump “should be ashamed of himself”.

Sorry, Brendan, I don’t think he’s ashamed of himself because he is incapable of empathy or shame.

Remember when Trump said he was going to act presidential and respectful on social media, shortly after his election win? The Atlantic, in an excellent piece written yesterday, with how that has played out:

Over the past 24 hours, President Trump has delivered a concentrated dose of misinformation, self-sabotage, hypocrisy, and bigotry that stands out even by the standards of his short and eventful political career.

The president blew up negotiations to fund the government with a tweet attacking Democratic congressional leaders. He retweeted inflammatory and misleading  anti-Islam videos from a bigoted far-right British politician. He joked about presenting a “Fake News Trophy” to media networks.

He called attention to Matt Lauer, the NBC host fired on Wednesday for sexual misconduct, despite Trump’s own past admissions of sexual assault. He baselessly implied that NBC host Joe Scarborough, a onetime informal adviser, might have been involved in the death of an intern years ago in Florida.

And several outlets reported that the president privately continues to claim preposterous things, including that it wasn’t him on the Access Hollywood tape and that Barack Obama really wasn’t born in the United States…

His bigotry toward Muslims has been on display for years. He has blown up budget negotiations before. He frequently passes along unverified and false information. His hypocrisy about sexual-harassment allegations is not new. He has a weakness for conspiracy theories.

Taken together, however, they offer yet another display of poor judgment and divisive leadership from the putative leader of the free world, and they again cast doubt on his fitness for his office. They are also further evidence that Trump’s hypocrisy, bigotry, and dishonesty are not an act. He means it all.

He really does, and the fact that so many Americans blindly follow him and sing his praises is so very, very revealing.

[sources:guardian&atlantic]