

“There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations,” Trump said. In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Trump doubled down. “And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.” “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down,” Trump said at a rally in Birmingham, Ala. There is no evidence that this actually happened. Last year, while discussing his first 100 days in office, Trump invoked 9/11 while boasting about the “tremendous” television ratings for his appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” saying they were the highest “since the World Trade Center came down.”Īs a candidate, Trump stirred outrage by saying he saw “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center. When Humanosphere asked Damiani what he hopes his audience will take away from his film, the producer said he hopes his audience will not take the message too seriously but enjoy the humor.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. The dark comedy showcases numerous jokes about stereotypical antics of the Mexican and Latino community – such as the quinceañera, the Quetzalcoatl, the lucha libre, the mariachi and the Chapulín Colorado – and, of course, Donald Trump’s “ big, beautiful ” multi-billion-dollar wall. “ I know people are ‘hurt’ about the election, but if Mexicans can make fun of it, anyone can,” says one Twitter user, while another sums up the bona fide sentiment of the film in brief: “ This is super real. Not surprisingly, the video has been positively received by thousands of Latinos sharing the video on social media. “At the same time it is a retrofuturistic robot, antique and with obsolete technology.” “It is the most ridiculous way we could come up with to spin out the political speech of Trump and give it tangibility,” he said.
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The short film has more than 4 million views.Īccording to Damiani, depicting Trump as a robot was intended to create “an immense allegorical chariot, a giant stupidity made of sheet metal” full of Asian connotations (a label on the the machine reads: “Made in China”). The townsfolk then reveal an unlikely hero. Several characters, including a cowardly diplomat and a mariachi singer, try in vain to bring down the robot.

They curse at the bill, and a violent fight erupts between the Hispanics and the monstrous robotic Trump, which starts firing missiles from its crotch and stomping them into the ground. The dark comedy depicts Mexican immigrants receiving an invoice from Trump, who tells them to pay for the new border wall at the U.S. The film is not meant to “save the world” from Trump, he explained, but to entertain. “That was the premise, tilt the scale to the other side and do justice.” “We realized that using we can bring wonder to those who need it most,” said the film’s producer Alejandro Damiani in an email to Humanosphere.

According to the company website, its motto is “Making the world a better place, one pixel at a time.” (Monitor Against Mexicans Over Nationwide),” was created by Uruguayan production company Aparato, which used computer generated images and visual effects to criticize Trump’s position on Mexican immigrants. A new short film has gone viral for its depiction of President-elect Donald Trump as a massive robot at a wall on the U.S-Mexico border.
