Trump "They're Remaking Indiana Jones Without Harrison Ford. You Can't Do That!"

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Trump "They're Remaking Indiana Jones Without Harrison Ford. You Can't Do That!" refers to a viral video of Donald Trump complaining about a supposed Indiana Jones remake that does not star Harrison Ford and the Ghostbusters reboot with an all-female lead cast, saying, "They're remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford. You can't do that! And now they're making Ghostbusters with only women. What's going on!?" The video was uploaded to Trump's Facebook page in January 2015 and went viral over the following years, inspiring memes (largely on X / Twitter) as a phrasal template in which the subjects of the speech are changed, often to complain about an upcoming remake of a given property.

Origin

On January 28th, 2015, the Facebook^[1] page for Donald J. Trump posted a 10-second long video tagged "#TrumpVlog" in which Trump complained to the camera that "they" are supposedly making an Indiana Jones remake without Harrison Ford as the star, then complains that they're making a Ghostbusters film with "only women," referring to the controversial 2016 Ghostbusters movie that features an all-female leading cast. The video gained over 1.5 million views and 14,000 reactions in nine years (reupload shown below).

They're remaking Indiana Jones without Harrison Ford. You can't do that! And now they're making Ghostbusters with only women. What's going on!?

Spread

The video gained viral spread and became the subject of memes over the following years, particularly in the 2020s.

On May 24th, 2020, X^[2] user @TerminusVinter posted, "They are remaking Snake Eater without Hideo Kojima. You can't do that!" garnering over 15,000 likes in four years (shown below, left). On June 8th, 2023, X^[3] user @scarfher0 posted a version of the meme about Persona 3, garnering over 20,000 likes in a year (shown below, right).

On May 26th, 2024, X^[4] user @RawDiamondDog posted another version of the meme about Metal Gear Solid, garnering over 1,500 likes in a month (shown below, left). On June 18th, X^[5] user @fyridk posted a version of the meme about The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, garnering over 25,000 likes in two days (shown below, right).

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