Trump Criticized For GIF Showing Him Knocking Over Hillary Clinton With Golf Ball

President Donald Trump over the weekend retweeted a series of tweets sent to him by his Twitter followers, all in praise of the 45th president of the United States, containing amateur images or memes and one GIF that was doctored to show Trump hitting Hillary Clinton in the back of a head with a golf ball, causing her to fall down. The president has in the past shared such images that show him committing violence against the news network CNN, a move that many people interpreted as the president promoting violence against journalists.

The GIF the president shared of him apparently knocking down Clinton — the first woman to be a presidential nominee for a major political party, a former United States senator and a former secretary of State — prompted outrage as the image clearly shows an act of violence being committed against a woman and one that, with a retweet, the president seemed to condone.

Though Trump's advisers often say the president's Twitter habits should not be taken seriously, his former press secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged back in June that the president's tweets are officials statements.

It's not clear how the president found the tweet. The violent images Trump shared in the past include him apparently knocking down a person whose head was replaced with a CNN logo and a cartoon train running over a person whose head was also the CNN logo. The latter was shared after the violent events in Charlottesville when a woman was killed and several injured after a car ran over protesters at a white supremacist rally.

The other tweets the president shared over the weekend included one of Trump's face with arrows in the background showing the stock market rising, a cartoon Trump pulling coal and companies and a map of the Electoral College that was completely red and had the caption "keep it up libs, This will be 2020." He also referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as "rocket man."

The president also shared a Bloomberg article that estimated how much he was worth to Twitter.

Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics who resigned after clashing with the Trump administration, said on Twitter that Trump is "unfit" because he shared the image. Others cautioned against normalizing such an image and practice by the president.

"NEVER ACCEPT NORMALIZATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, no matter how much our sick misogynist in chief revels in it," tweeted Lisa Bloom, the powerful women's rights attorney.

During the campaign, Trump faced accusations of sexual assault from multiple women and a tape of him bragging about sexual assault from a few years ago almost ended his campaign. Most recently, NBC reporter Katy Tur shared in her book "Unbelievable" that she once endured an unwanted kiss from Trump, whom she was covering on the campaign.

And the account where Trump found the image seems to have an anti-Semitic past.

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