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  • 2017-05-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Did President Trump Give the Finger to the Italian Prime Minister? (en)
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  • Days after President Trump joined other world leaders to discuss international issues at the 43rd G7 summit in Taormina, Italy on 26 and 27 May 2017, an animated GIF image surfaced purporting to show Trump extending his middle finger in an obscene gesture targeted at Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni: The GIF was extracted from a video showing Gentiloni making opening remarks on the second day of the summit: Keying off news reports that Trump sowed discord at the summit by criticizing NATO partners and refusing to affirm U.S. support of the Paris Agreement on climate change, partisan web sites such as Palmer Report, Left Scoop, and Occupy Democrats posted screeds insinuating that Trump purposely insulted Gentiloni — though they were quick to acknowledge that the gesture might not have meant anything at all. For example, Bill Palmer opined: It's important to note that the video was truncated to exaggerate the impression that Trump gestured at Gentiloni. A longer clip showing the two apparently speaking cordially before Gentiloni's remarks contradicts that impression: We don't claim to be able to read Donald Trump's mind, but based on the evidence at hand we find little back up the claim that he aimed a middle-finger insult at the Prime Minister of Italy. Sometimes when you have an itch, you just have to scratch it. (en)
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