Kingsman is a terrible film with a poisonous message — of course Donald Trump is being doctored into it
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The video shows Trump, whose face is doctored onto the character played by Colin Firth in the original film, killing detractors including Hillary Clinton and the Black Lives Matter movement. The footage was presented in a side-room of a conference held at the ‘American Priority’ festival, which says on its site that it supports “the America First but not alone agenda.” It’s worth reading a primer on the fascist-friendly connotations of the “America First” slogan, which, in the hands of Hitler-supporting tycoon Randolph William Hearst in the 1930s, was used as a rallying cry to crush the left and as an antisemitic dogwhistle against “foreign financiers”. This is the context in which a scene depicting a massacre of dissidents was screened On social media, right and left -wing commentators were quick to draw a parallel with time when the comedian Kathy Griffin was shown on a photo with a mock-up of a decapitated Donald Trump — however, it should be pretty obvious that a comedian’s prerogative is to depict incendiary, over-the-top scenarios, while it is extremely inappropriate for an organisation close to the President of the United States to do the same thing. It’s a particularly repugnant scene because it allows the movie’s creators to have their cake and eat it — in other words, the film can claim that it supports freedom of expression while simultaneously enjoying the sport of a powerless Harry Hart taking out people whose ideas are abhorrent to most viewers.
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