🚨 Trump Just Released a Snuff Film — and Americans Cheered - How the Genocide in Gaza Obliterated What We Are Willing to Accept

In 27 seconds of night-vision, a U.S. missile obliterated 11 men at sea. No trial. No evidence. No law. This is what 700 days of live-streamed genocide has done to the world.

🚨 Family, when presidents release execution videos and call them victories, we are living in a world where truth and law no longer matter. It’s dangerous. My work exists to name these acts for what they are — genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity — even when others stay silent. The leading news outlets in America are treating what I am about to tell you like it’s normal. Trust me - it’s not.

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Trump’s Snuff Film

What I’m about to describe is not a military operation. It’s not justice. It’s not even a war crime hidden in the shadows. Donald Trump just released a snuff film — produced by the U.S. military, posted online by Trump and members of his administration, and celebrated by conservatives across the country. It’s the type of film, that if leaked to media 10 years ago, would have taken over the entire world. Now, it’s a blip in the news. I could barely find it on most news websites.

In the 27-second video that I posted above, shot in grainy night-vision, you see a speedboat racing through the dark sea. According to Trump eleven men were aboard, clearly unaware that monsters were circling above them. And then, in an instant, the boat explodes. It disappears into fire and water. The men vanish. I am assume they are all dead.

Instantly, it reminded me of Gaza.

Easy death. Done from remote control drones in the sky.

Trump called them Venezuelan drug dealers. Maybe they were. Maybe they weren’t. I don’t even know if they were all men. Or adults. I am not even sure I see eleven people. I have no idea if drugs were on that boat or what kind or what the danger or value of it was. We’ll never know. The evidence is gone. The men are gone. Whatever might have proved or disproved his story is ash at the bottom of the sea. And that’s the point. We have systems of justice so that people are able to properly defend themselves to the full extent of the law. That didn’t happen.

What matters is this: they were executed without trial, without charges, without even an attempt at arrest. The President of the United States ordered their killing in international waters and then packaged the footage like a highlight reel for his followers. And they loved it.

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Violence as Entertainment

This wasn’t a leak. It wasn’t investigative journalism. Trump himself published it. That’s what makes this moment different. The state didn’t just commit an atrocity; it turned it into content.

We need to call it what it is: propaganda by way of spectacle. Executions presented as entertainment. A president using death to get likes and clicks. This video is the same genre as the gruesome videos once circulated by ISIS — except this time it comes with the full stamp of the United States government.

And conservatives are cheering. Not just tolerating it, but applauding. Social media feeds lit up with comments praising the strike, mocking the men as terrorists and celebrating the fireball that obliterated those men as if it were a wonderful fireworks show. The lesson is clear: atrocity, when dressed in the American flag, isn’t just acceptable. It’s pleasurable.

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The Collapse of Shock

Here’s the part that haunts me most. After watching 700 days of genocide in Gaza — watching babies decapitated, families incinerated, hospitals bombed — I realize nothing shocks me anymore. That’s what Gaza has done to the world. It’s numbed us.

Most of my life a video like this would have been unthinkable. A president publicly posting footage of a missile strike that vaporized 11 men at sea, who were purported to be drug dealers, would have drawn outrage across the political spectrum. Today, it barely registers. And that’s not an accident. It’s a symptom of what happens when genocide is normalized, when American weapons are used daily to incinerate Palestinian children.

Atrocity ceases to shock.
Death ceases to horrify.
Executions become just another clip on social media before you swipe on to the next thing.

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What This Moment Reveals

Trump’s snuff film lays bare two truths at once. First, that the United States no longer even pretends to care about international law or due process. Second, that Gaza has altered the moral fabric of the world.

Once you can watch a hospital bombed with babies inside and then watch the perpetrator of that crime — Benjamin Netanyahu — get a standing ovation in the U.S. Congress, nothing else really matters. The lines have already been crossed. The standards already erased.

If the U.S. can bankroll and defend a genocide for 700 days without consequence, then of course a president feels emboldened to bomb a speedboat in international waters and release the video for applause.

This isn’t just about Venezuela. It isn’t just about eleven men. It’s about the death of restraint. The death of shame. And the rise of atrocity as entertainment.

International Law & the Gaza Precedent

Let’s strip this down to its core: what Trump ordered and bragged about is illegal under international law. Not controversial. Not debatable. Illegal. I want to detail for you all the ways what he just did is illegal, but I want to do so, fully expressing to you that I know this man doesn’t care even a tiny bit about international law. He knows it doesn’t apply to him. I was waiting for a moment like this - to see what the world would do after allowing 700 days of live-streamed genocide without intervention. What else will the world now find acceptable? Now we know. Life and death have never been cheaper than they are right now.

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The Right to Life

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) — which the United States ratified — is explicit: no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of their life. Executing men at sea without charges, without trial, without even an attempt at arrest is the very definition of “arbitrary deprivation of life.” This was an extrajudicial execution, nothing less.

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The UN Charter

The United Nations Charter, Article 2, prohibits the use of force except in self-defense or with Security Council authorization. Were those eleven men attacking the United States? No. Were they firing weapons at U.S. ships? No. Was there any imminent threat? None has been shown.

A speedboat in international waters does not justify a missile strike. Full stop. Not only that, but Marco Rubio said they weren’t even bound for the United States, but Trinidad. That fact makes the slaughter of the people on this boat that much worse. The United States had no right to do such a thing.

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The Geneva Conventions

Even if this were treated as an “armed conflict,” which it wasn’t, the Geneva Conventions forbid summary executions. Combatants who are not actively engaged, or civilians, cannot simply be bombed without process. Trump didn’t just break the law of peace; he shredded the laws of war.

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The Law of the Sea

Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), ships in international waters are under the jurisdiction of their flag state. The U.S. has no unilateral right to bomb foreign vessels unless directly threatened. America did not have jurisdiction over that boat.

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The Inter-American System

In the Americas, there’s another layer: the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man, which also prohibits summary executions. For the U.S. to execute people in the Caribbean without due process is a direct violation of the very human rights framework it claims to champion.

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Gaza as Precedent

And here, family, is where Gaza looms largest. For 700 days we have watched Israel commit open, documented war crimes: bombing hospitals, killing aid workers, starving children, using food as a weapon. And what has the United States done? Funded it. Armed it. Defended it at the UN. Punished the International Criminal Court when it dared to investigate.

What does that teach the world? That international law is not real. That it exists only for the weak. That the United States and Israel are above it.

So when Trump orders a strike at sea, killing eleven men without trial, and then posts the video online for applause, he is not breaking precedent. He is following it. He is imitating the very impunity America has protected for Israel.

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The Collapse of Restraint

This is the danger. Once a nation concludes it can kill without evidence, without process, without consequence, there is no restraint left. And once atrocity is normalized in Gaza — broadcast daily, defended hourly — it becomes easier to reproduce elsewhere.

Gaza didn’t just reveal Israel’s crimes. It revealed the collapse of the global order itself.

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America Above the Law

Family, understand this: it is not just that Trump broke the law. It is that America has made clear that for itself, there is no law. International law, human rights law, maritime law, humanitarian law — none of it applies when the U.S. decides otherwise.

That’s the lesson of Gaza. That’s the precedent now carried forward to the Caribbean Sea.

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What Gaza Has Changed Forever

Family, I need to say this as clearly as I can: This genocide didn’t just kill Palestinians. This genocide has absolutely murdered the very idea of international law. I am not sure it even exists anymore - not in any meaningful way at least.

For nearly two years, we’ve watched genocide unfold live on our phones. We’ve seen children starved by siege, newborns suffocated in collapsed hospitals, entire families wiped out by U.S.-made bombs. And what happened? The world did not intervene. The International Criminal Court indicted Israel’s leaders, and the United States punished the Court instead of the criminals. Western leaders gave Israel standing ovations as it slaughtered civilians.

The result? A new world where atrocity is not hidden but flaunted. Where genocide is not denied but livestreamed. Where law is not applied but mocked.

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The Shift in What Shocks Us

When Trump posted that snuff film, many people shrugged. Others cheered. Few were horrified. That’s because Gaza has lowered the bar of conscience to the ground.

If the world can watch Israel decapitate babies and still welcome Netanyahu to Congress, then what’s a blown-up boat at sea? If the United States can justify starving two million people in Gaza, then why not vaporize eleven men in the Caribbean?

The shocking becomes routine. The routine becomes entertainment.

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Atrocity as Content

This is what terrifies me most. The strike itself was illegal, yes. But Trump’s decision to release the video was a cultural event. It turned execution into entertainment. It blurred the line between warfare and reality TV.

And conservatives ate it up. They didn’t just accept it. They laughed, they clapped, they reposted it. They treated the killing of eleven men like a viral meme.

That is what Gaza has taught them: that death is content, that genocide is policy, that atrocity is a brand to be marketed.

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No More Illusions

For decades, America wrapped its violence in the language of democracy and justice. Every war crime came with a press release about “freedom.” Every atrocity was justified as “defense.” But Gaza stripped the mask away.

Now the U.S. and its leaders don’t bother with pretense. They bomb a hospital and call it a hospital. They bomb a boat and call it a boat. They kill and then brag.

The illusion of restraint is gone.

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The Global Consequence

And this has consequences far beyond Venezuela, far beyond Gaza. If America can kill anyone, anywhere, without evidence, and then post the video online for applause — what does that mean for the future? What does that mean for dissidents, for journalists, for entire nations who resist American power?

It means the rules are dead. It means law is dead. It means we are entering an era where power alone decides what is legal.

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The Call

Family, we cannot accept this. We cannot let Gaza and this strike become the new normal. Because if we do, there will be no end to it. If atrocity becomes entertainment, if genocide becomes precedent, then the entire world becomes Gaza.

We must refuse silence. We must name these crimes for what they are. We must fight to keep our humanity alive in a world that wants to bury it under rubble and ash.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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