Heartbreaking Video Highlights Trump’s ‘Hypocritical Stance on Protecting Syrian Children’

‘President Trump, the Victims of the Chemical Attacks Are the Same People You Are Rejecting’

The Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action) has released a video detailing what it calls Donald Trump’s “hypocritical stance on protecting Syrian Children.”

Warning: The video contains both graphic and disturbing images.

CAP Action, which is self-described as “an independent, nonpartisan policy institute and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans,” released the video yesterday in response to Donald Trump’s decision to use 59 Tomahawk missiles to destroy a Syrian military base, now operational, as well as his subsequent response from Mar-a-Lago.

“Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched,” the video begins, using video from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago statement on late Thursday night. In juxtaposition, the video switches from the Trump broadcast to graphic images depicting the plight of many Syrians, using the president’s words as narration.

Trump had said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children… even beautiful babies,” continuing that “no child of God should ever suffer such horror.”

The video uses Trump’s words following the airstrike atop heartbreaking, graphic imagery from the many attacks in Syria, shifting to the rhetoric presidential candidate Donald Trump used on his 2016 campaign trail. “A Trump administration will suspend the Syrian refugee program,” he advised in November.

“I’m putting the people on notice that are coming here from Syria,” he said in October 2015, “that if I win, they’re going back. They’re going back.”

Perhaps most notably, particularly as the heartbreaking Syrian images are displayed, the video highlights Trump’s comments on Syrian children in February 2016. At an event in New Hampshire, the candidate was asked if he could “look children aged five, eight, ten, in the face and tell them they [couldn’t] go to school” in the Salem town.

“Oh, I can look in their face and say ‘you can’t come,’” Trump responded.

“President Trump,” the video reads following the recorded statement, “the victims of the chemical attack are the same people you are rejecting.” It then offers the hashtag, #RefugeesWelcome.

The full video can be seen below, but NCRM again warns that graphic and disturbing images can be found within:

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