Carpe Donktum

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About

Carpe Donktum is a video content creator best known for producing edited clips in support of United States President Donald Trump.

Online History

On October 27th, 2006, the Carpe Donktum YouTube channel was created. In May 2008, the @CarpeDonktum^[3] Twitter feed was launched. On October 22nd, 2017, Donktum created a Patreon^[2] titled "Carpe Donktum is creating Meme Videos and Images."

Highlights

Joe Biden Video

On April 3rd, 2019, Donktum tweeted an edit of Joe Biden's "Social Norms Are Changing" video, in which Biden is shown creeping up behind himself to sniff his neck (shown below). The following day, the video was reposted by Donald Trump.

Twitter Suspension

On January 12th, 2019, Donktum uploaded an edited clip from a western film video titled "The Twitter Fight at No Wall Corral" to YouTube, in which Trump is shown confronting CNN reporter Jim Acosta at a saloon (shown below).

On May 8th, 2019, Brian Krassenstein tweeted^[5] a link to Donktum's Twitter upload of the video, calling for viewers to report it to Twitter (shown below). Soon after, Donktum was locked out of his Twitter account.

That day, Ali Alexander from the pro-Trump media outlet Culttture tweeted that screenshots of the suspension notice, informing Donktum the tweet linking to the video would need to be removed or he would be banned. Also on May 8th, The Daily Dot^[6] published an article about the controversy titled "Trump’s favorite mememaker gets Twitter suspension after mass-reporting."

Now, CarpeDonktum</a> has been locked out of his account for 12 hours *if he deletes his tweet* that encourages <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">realDonaldTrump to “build that wall.” If he doesn’t, he’s banned forever. He links this video meme.Krassenstein encouraged mass reporting. https://t.co/7CQR5FfgpF pic.twitter.com/0qduD183lt
— Ali Alexander (@ali) May 8, 2019

Twitter Suspension

On October 14th, 2019, @CarpeDonktum was temporarily suspended from Twitter following the circulation of an edited scene from the 2015 action film Kingsman: The Secret Service in which Donald Trump is shown attacking various journalists and critics.