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President Donald Trump has, time and again, assaulted the press and said unsavory things about reporters. For starters, he has called them “terrible,” “fake,” and “nasty,” at press briefings.
But on May 4, the Trump campaign took it a step further. They released a campaign ad showing Trump as Yoda, decapitating cable news networks.
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The video, captioned “May The 4th Be With You!” was released on “Star Wars Day,” is a scene from “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.”
It fixes Trump’s face on Yoda and shows him decapitating clone troopers labeled with the logos of CNN and MSNBC. The troopers are sent forth by Emperor Palpatine (that has his 2020 presumptive Democratic opponent Joe Biden’s face on him.)
Twitter couldn’t resist the opportunity to not just call out the errors in the ad, but to condemn its timing as the U.S. continues to battles coronavirus, and more than 69,000 Americans have died from it.
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One Twitter user noted how this is inciting violence, taking a dig at Trump’s favorite pastime: verbally assaulting journalists. Not to mention how his campaign decided to seriously infringe on copyrights…
Nothin' to see here. Just glorification of murder and incitin' violence against reporters. Not to mention serious copyright infringement of @Disney intellectual property.https://t.co/L1GgUpDqUW
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) May 4, 2020
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Another Twitterati couldn’t help but call out the poor timing of this ad’s release.
The GOP National Spokesperson @lizRNC retweeting a creepy Trump campaign video, edited to show Trump as a Star Wars character killing CNN and MSNBC, as we have over 68,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus. pic.twitter.com/XcsO3DFVHF
— Richard W. (@IceManNYR) May 4, 2020
Some faithful Star Wars fans even pointed out how the campaign probably didn’t watch the movie because in reality, “Palpatine kicks Yoda’s a**.” Kind of like when they put Trump’s head on Thanos…
Not the best SW movie for Trump team to make Yoda Trump and Biden Palpatine…
At the end of EP III, Palpatine kicks Yoda's ass and he runs away like a punk #MayTheFourth https://t.co/weYh6aXph5
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) May 4, 2020
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Others inferred what the ad was really saying — that Biden will beat Trump.
So then Fox News would be the separatist alliance, which is also bad? Clearly the trump campaign has never actually seen Star Wars. Also, palpatine kicks yodas ass at the end of revenge of the sith, therefore you’re saying Biden will beat Trump. Learn the lore. https://t.co/o7diUyk1Fj
— Seth/Who? (@SethTKollar) May 4, 2020
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Many hawk-eyed fans nitpicked the campaign ad for differences (and similarities) between POTUS and the legendary Jedi master.
Maga porn seems to be envisioning the overweight orange guy who wears shoe lifts and needs to bump up daily on Adderall as some weapon-yielding super something. The only thing Trump and Yoda have in common is their awkward speech patterning.
— MoreSkyPlease (@Moreskyplease) May 4, 2020
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The similarity being the size of hands. (Amongst most other things, Trump’s hand size has made headlines.)
Trump and Yoda do have the same size hands.
— KangMcNugget (@NoHashKang) May 5, 2020
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One Twitter user even took a dig at his hair.
BUT YODA’S HAIR: I’m surprised TRUMP’s campaign would tweet a video that superimposes his head on that of an almost completely bald character with only thin wisps of undyed white hair. pic.twitter.com/sllPMJY6Rl
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 4, 2020
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And all this to say:
This should be obvious but:
Yoda would never, ever support Trump.
— Adam Lance Garcia (@AdamLanceGarcia) May 4, 2020
