Trump's latest social media video is a terrible masterpiece

Not exactly cutting edge special effects.
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Sasha Lekach
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It seems every week the White House social team tries out different video transitions ... and it always looks terrible.

Here's a brief look at this week's masterpiece, which is 3-plus minutes of photos and videos sliding from the top, bottom, and sides of the screen, accompanied by Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA." It ends with a Looney Tunes effect on a waving American flag.

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Watch the whole thing, if you dare.

These video skills are out of control, as people noticed on Twitter.

This hardly the first time a Trump video has gone overboard with the special effects and transitions -- in just the past week.

They went all in on squares to recap Trump's FEMA meeting last week.

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The page turns were relentless covering Trump's rally in West Virginia.

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Easy on the animations, social team.

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That's all, folks.

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Sasha Lekach

Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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