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Jun 24, 2025 Trump posted a video mocking the Iran bombing with dehumanizing lyrics about the country Tier 1 · Primary Information, Memory and Manipulation
A sitting president posted content mocking military strikes and dehumanizing an entire nation, normalizing casual violence in political discourse.
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- Trump posted video mocking Iran bombing — Trump's social media feed posted a video at 7:15 p.m. that recalled Senator John McCain's 2007 call to "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" set to the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann." Trump's version was longer and included visual imagery of planes dropping bombs, with lyrics such as "went to a mosque, gonna throw some rocks" and "gonna turn Iran into a parking lot."
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