ISIS propaganda video celebrating Brussels attacks uses Trump’s voice and photo
A pro-Islamic State media group has released a video that celebrates the Brussels terror attacks and features Donald Trump’s voice and picture.
The video, which runs just over nine minutes, opens with images of the bombings and quickly cuts to a photo of Trump next to footage of a fiery scene from the aftermath of the attacks.
“Brussels was one of the great cities — one of the most beautiful cities of the world 20 years ago — and safe,” the voice of Trump can be heard saying in audio lifted from a phone interview he gave this week. “And now it’s a horror show — an absolute horror show.”
The video, titled “The Exile of Islam and Brussels Attacks,” features scenes from both the attack on Zaventem airport and the Maelbeek metro station. It also shows imagery of Belgian ISIS fighter Abul Qa’Qa al-Baljiki, who participated in the Jan. 7, 2015, attack on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 11 people, according to MEMRI, a group that tracks jihadist propaganda and provided the video to Yahoo News on Thursday.
“They’re smart and shrewd, and they knew this would get a lot of attention,” said MEMRI executive director Steve Stalinsky.
The video, by the pro-ISIS group Al-Battar Media Foundation, cuts from images in Belgium to shots of destruction in Iraq and Syria, contending that the Brussels attacks were in retaliation for U.S. and Western bombing raids on ISIS territory.
“The Crusade jets — including the Belgian — are still bombing the Muslims in Iraq and Levant day and night, killing children, women, old, and destroying mosques and schools,” a narrator on the video says.
