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Description: On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet containing video in which he pummels a person with a CNN logo as its head. The tweet was accompanied by these hashtags "#FraudNewsCNN #FNN." It's in keeping with Trump's broad theme of the media as "fake" and his more narrowly focused message of late that CNN is the worst of the bunch. In a statement, CNN called it a "sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters." "Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so," CNN's statement continued. "Instead of preparing for his overseas trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, ‎dealing with North Korea and working on his health care bill, he is instead involved in juvenile behavior far below the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing his." The video Trump used for the tweet came from an appearance Trump made in 2007 on the pro wresting juggernaut World Wrestling Entertainment. In the original footage, Trump clotheslines WWE CEO Vince McMahon, who is taunting "Stone Then there is the fact that pro wrestling has long -- and successfully -- played to peoples' stereotypes for eyeballs and audience intensity. When I was growing up in the 1980s, a character named the "Iron Sheik" was the biggest "heel" (a bad guy) in the wrestling world. His character was created following the Iranian hostage crisis of the early 1980s. He would enter the ring carrying an Iranian flag and bow to it before the matches. Nikolai Volkoff, who would sing the Russian national anthem in the middle of the ring, was another of the top heels of that era. McMahon grasped early on that playing on peoples' fears and anger was a ratings goldmine. Booing is a powerful thing. Uniting behind a common enemy has real resonance. That McMahon created cartoon villains -- broad-brush sketches of what made people afraid or upset -- was besides the point. That it worked was the whole point.