Michael Moore in TrumpLand Speech Remixes

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Michael Moore in TrumpLand Speech Remixes refers to edited versions of a monologue delivered by filmmaker Michael Moore in his documentary Michael Moore in TrumpLand, in which he describes how electing Donald Trump as president would be "the biggest fuck you ever recorded in human history."

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On October 18th, 2016, the documentary film Michael Moore in TrumpLand was released in theaters, in which Moore the 2016 United States presidential election during his one-man show at the Murphy Theatre in Wilmington Ohio. On October 24th, YouTuber orlared uploaded audio of Moore discussing Trump in the film, in which he speculates why mid-Western Americans would vote for Donald Trump. At the end of the speech, Moore says that electing Trump would be "the biggest fuck you ever recorded in human history. And it will feel, good" (shown below). The clip ends before Moore claims they will come to regret the decision, comparing it to the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom.

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That same day, the video reached the front page of the /r/The_Donald^[5] subreddit. Meanwhile, YouTuber itsBarbz uploaded a video featuring the Moore monologue with patriotic music playing in the background as if it were a pro-Trump advertisement (shown below, left). On October 25th, a similar remix was uploaded by YouTuber Marcus Atwood (shown below, right).

Meanwhile, Milo Yiannopoulos posted the audio clip with the caption "Michael Moore makes the argument for voting Trump" on his official Facebook page,^[2] where it received upwards of 10 million views, 157,000 shares and 9,900 comments. On October 26th, Snopes^[3] published an article titled "Moore to the Picture," which labeled claims that Michael Moore had endorsed Trump for president as "false." That same day, the Studio Krank YouTube channel uploaded slow motion footage of Trump supporters with the Moore speech playing in the background (shown below).

On October 27th, Donald Trump tweeted a link to YouTuber orlared's video (shown below).^[1] Within four days, the tweet received more than 25,000 likes and 12,000 retweets.

That day, Moore posted the full version of the ending to the speech, where he adds additional commentary about Trump's election.

"Trump's election is going to be the biggest 'fuck you' ever recorded in human history. And it will feel good, for a day. Maybe a week. Possibly a month. And then. Like the Brits, who wanted to send a message, so they voted to leave Europe only to find out that if you vote to leave Europe you, actually have to leave Europe. And now they regret it. All the Ohioans, Pennsylvanians, Michiganders and Wisconsinites of Middle England, right, they all voted to leave and now they regret it."

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