Supporters shown video nasty

A graphically violent parody video, shown at a meeting of President Donald Trump’s supporters at his Miami resort, depicted a likeness of the President shooting and stabbing his opponents and members of the news media in a church, the New

York Times reports.

In the video, Trump’s critics and media members are portrayed as parishioners fleeing his gruesome rampage. The fake Trump strikes the late Senator John McCain in the neck, hits and stabs TV personality Rosie O’Donnell in the face, lights Senator Bernie Sanders’ head on fire and shoots or otherwise assaults people whose faces are replaced with news organisation logos. It also features, among others, presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton.

The video was shown last week at an American Priority conference at Trump’s Doral Miami resort, the newspaper said. Trump was not there. Event organiser Alex Phillips told the Times the video was played as part of a “meme exhibit” and was not associated with or endorsed by the conference “in any official capacity”. “American Priority rejects all political violence,” he said, adding that the organisation was looking into the matter.

The setting for the massacre is the “Church of Fake News”. The original clip appeared to be taken from the 2015 movie Kingsman: The Secret

Service, featuring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine.

In the video, Trump’s face is superimposed on a killer’s body.