{"id":1910526,"date":"2023-04-06T04:28:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-beetle-director-deletes-tweet-wishing-assassination-on-president-donald-trump-claims-puerto-rico-is-a-slave-colony\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T04:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T08:32:06","slug":"blue-beetle-director-deletes-tweet-wishing-assassination-on-president-donald-trump-claims-puerto-rico-is-a-slave-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-beetle-director-deletes-tweet-wishing-assassination-on-president-donald-trump-claims-puerto-rico-is-a-slave-colony\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBlue Beetle\u201d Director Deletes Tweet Wishing Assassination on President Donald Trump, Claims Puerto Rico Is a \u201cSlave Colony\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblue-beetle-director-deletes-tweet-wishing-assassination-on-president-donald-trump-claims-puerto-rico-is-a-slave-colony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div id=\"cb-outer-container\" role=\"main\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Article\">\n<article id=\"post-203561\" role=\"article\">\n<header id=\"cb-standard-featured\">\n<\/header>\n<section itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-content-ads-inserted=\"true\">\n<p>The director of \u2018Blue Beetle\u2019, \u00c1ngel Manuel Soto recently deleted a tweet where he expressed his hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated, akin to what happened with President Abraham Lincoln.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203441\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203441\">Xolo Maridue\u00f1a as Blue Beetle in Blue Beetle (2023), DC Studios<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On August 7th, 2018, Soto took to Twitter writing, \u201cThe only thing I hope Trump has similar to Lincoln\u2019s presidency is the way it ended.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203562\" data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203562\">Lofti Pixels Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tweet was still available on Twitter as of last night, until Lofti Pixels shared the tweet to his account causing Soto to end up deleting the tweet. Cottees tweeted that the tweet was deleted around 3:49 AM on April 4, 2023.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203563\" data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203563\">Cottees Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The deletion of the tweet took place after Soto was criticized for including George Lopez\u2019s \u201cBatman is a fascist\u201d line at the end of the \u2018Blue Beetle\u2019 trailer. To this, YouTuber Ryan Kinel said, \u201cAt the end, the Batman is fascist. This is pandering to these stupid f***ing 20 year-old free profile picture she\/them who do not know what their f***ing gender is, who do not buy comics, who do not have money to go to movies. That\u2019s who that f***ing s**t is pandering to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Batman is a fascist.\u2019 F*** off with that. That\u2019s so stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TaU2TWuQYAk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\" id=\"fitvid0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soto replied with three laughing emojis and a Skeletor gif that reads, \u201cWell, my job\u2019s done,\u201d to CBMovieFan&#8217;s tweet that George Lopez says, \u201cBatman is a Fascist\u201d and it made him very angry.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203565\" data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203565\">\u00c1ngel Manuel Soto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soto would also use a similar gif in response to another user pointing out that certain people were upset with the \u201cBatman is a fascist\u201d line in the trailer. Instead of Skeletor, Soto used a President Barack Obama gif dropping a microphone. He captioned it, \u201cMy job here is done.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203567\" data-slot-rendered-content=\"true\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203567\">\u00c1ngel Manuel Soto Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Soto, apart from hoping for the assassination of Donald Trump, also claimed that Puerto Rico is a \u201cslave colony.\u201d \u201cPuerto Rico is a slave colony of the USA. Your passport was imposed on us, so there is nowhere else to go after your country sh**s on my land and blames us for the stink. F*** you,\u201d he tweeted back in August 2018.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203566\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203566\">\u00c1ngel Manuel Soto Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ironically, during a Q&#038;A session at a trailer launch, Soto had requested members of the media and potential moviegoers to support the film by saying, \u201cIf you\u2019ll help us and this movie becomes a massive f***ing hit, we\u2019re going to see a lot of those [characters]. That\u2019s what needs to happen. If we want to see more variety and really celebrate differences, celebrate culture, celebrate other worlds because it\u2019s fun. The lores are so spectacular. The only way is by supporting movies. Supporting a movie like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_203442\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-203442\">Xolo Maridue\u00f1a as Blue Beetle in Blue Beetle (2023), DC Studios<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What are your thoughts on Soto\u2019s actions?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<li id=\"custom_html-10\"><\/li>\n<li id=\"custom_html-3\"><\/li>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Beetle director \u00c1ngel Manuel Soto recently deleted a tweet where he he hoped that President Donald Trump would be assassinated like President Abraham Lincoln. Xolo Maridue\u00f1a as Blue Beetle in Blue Beetle (2023), DC Studios In a tweet from August 7th, 2018, Soto wrote, \u201cThe only thing I hope Trump has similar to Lincoln\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1910527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6286,11621,4138,4856,23658,5552,6350,4657,3669,6800,5282,9371,3634,5293,16743],"class_list":["post-1910526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-assassination","tag-beetle","tag-blue","tag-claims","tag-colony","tag-deletes","tag-director","tag-donald","tag-president","tag-puerto","tag-rico","tag-slave","tag-trump","tag-tweet","tag-wishing"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}