There’s a lot of factors that go into earning – or at least gaining – international respect, and The Daily Beast has an excellent article on how Russia is doing just that – by clawing their way up the backs of the Americans:
A bizarre and, frankly, deeply disturbing ad from the [Russian] state-controlled RT network shows a deep-faked President Donald Trump joining the channel as an anchor. Although the wig is dodgy, the video superimposes Trump’s face onto a chubby body and plays real clips of him denigrating CNN and lavishing praise on “amazing” Russia.
The advert starts with Trump rolling up outside RT HQ in a limo and waddling to a dressing room which has the sign “Donald Trump: RT Special Host” on the door. Proudly holding up a signed RT contract which has “$1,000,000,000” scrawled across it in marker pen, the deep-faked Trump says: “It was a very nice offer from President Putin.”
The message of the advert is to not-so-subtly suggest that Putin is Trump’s personal hero and that the U.S. president is in the pocket of the Kremlin. In one scene apparently meant to show a network executive pitching shows to the deep-faked Trump, he’s handed a poster for a series called “Putin’s Apprentice” showing him standing with the Russian president. He exclaims: “I love that idea! I think I can do that!”
And the heads of other states will see that Trump won’t react to that, and they’ll read American weakness. This isn’t just a piece of odd humor, it’s just another step in dismantling American dominance and replacing it with Russian hegemony.
I would love to see reporters ask Trump for his reaction to this humiliating piece – and if he’s considered reacting to it kinetically.
Yeah, that means putting a missile into a Russian target.
“Mr. Trump, are you just going to continue to project American weakness, or will you defend American interests by, say, downing a Russian fighter?”
He might have a heart attack.
