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On 11 March 2016, the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was jarred when a scheduled rally in Chicago was disrupted by protesters, resulting in Trump's opting to cancel the event at the last minute: In the immediate wake of those events, a number of Facebook users shared the image reproduced above, which overlaid a quote from Trump about protesters over an iconic news photograph of a student fatally shot by National Guard troops during a 4 May 1970 anti-war protest at Kent State University: The quote reproduced with the image reflected words spoken by Donald Trump, but it was something of a paraphrase plucked from a longer statement, and it referenced an utterance made by Trump well before the chaotic Chicago rally. After a disruption at a Las Vegas political rally that took place on 22 February 2016, Trump told his gathered supporters that: Trump then briefly lauded police before describing the protester as throwing punches ... nasty as hell, and telling a cheering crowd: (Contemporaneous reporting suggested that the individual removed from the 22 February 2016 rally was not throwing punches.) The image seen here truncated Trump's remarks, replacing to guys like that in a place like this with to protesters. A 23 February 2016 Esquire article pointed out that the euphemisms in Trump's commentary weren't entirely apparent to non-attendees: On 12 March 2016, Vox compiled variations of remarks made by Trump at various rallies on multiple dates across the United States and selected eight instances during which Trump made similar comments. Four of those examples were as follows: The image entered wide circulation following Trump's canceled Chicago rally and subsequent interest in the GOP candidate's lamentations that protesters couldn't be violently ejected from his rallies. The photograph upon which Trump's words were superimposed was well-known, as described in a 6 May 1990 New York Times article marking the twentieth anniversary of the prize-winning image: Context for the image and the events it depicts are available via the Kent State University Libraries' Special Collections and Archives. In brief, as described at History.com, the Kent State shooting incident unfolded when: It's mostly accurate to say that Trump made the remarks attributed to him in this image (along with numerous similar statements at multiple other rallies), but the use of the iconic Kent State photograph to accompany those remarks was someone's editorial choice (in the sense that Trump didn't literally advocate shooting political protesters nor did he directly reference the Kent State shootings in the course of what many news outlets described as increasingly violent rhetoric). The juxtaposition of Trump's words with the historically significant Kent State image was illustrative in nature, although Trump has repeatedly stated a desire to see individuals protesting at his campaign events treated roughly (i.e., without political correctness).
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