Thai influencer has angered Republicans and US law enforcement officers by posting an image of a Thai solider kicking President Donald Trump in a political meme posted on his Facebook page Saturday.
A meme depicting a Thai solider kicking Donald Trump following the President’s statement Friday night on the Thai-Cambodia ceasefire (Source: From Facebook / DailyGoat.com)
The post also angered thousands of Cambodians since the image takes place in front of images of the Angkor Wat, a Cambodian holy site, following renewed strikes by the Thai military on Cambodia earlier this morning.
Friday, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he had spoken with both leaders of Cambodia and Thailand, who had assured him that a ceasefire signed between the two countries in October was still in place. These phone calls followed five days of renewed conflict marked by F-16 airstrikes on Cambodia by Thailand, killing dozens.
Saturday morning however, renewed airstrikes from Thai F-16s struck Meteuk Bridge in Pursat Province in Cambodia’s south. These air strikes were followed in the afternoon by shelling of a pagoda in the north later in the afternoon.
Contradicting President Trump’s statement the previous evening, Prime Minister Anutin maintained in a statement that Thailand would continue with airstrikes until it felt safe.
Referring to President Trump’s intervention, Anutin said: “If Cambodia wants a ceasefire, it must ask Thailand directly, not run to other countries’ leaders to negotiate … we should not have outsiders telling us about this. Suddenly someone comes and says there should be a ceasefire at ten tonight. Simply put, that is impossible.”
The meme of the soldier kicking Trump in the head is seen by many in the Republican administration of adding violent fuel to Anutin’s incendiary statement on Saturday evening. Thailand and the US have been allies for nearly two centuries.
“Why would the Thais want to piss off one of their most powerful allies in the world? It’s bizarre,” said one intelligence analyst in a phone call in an interview on background.
The influencer who posted the provocative meme is called Manassatian Luprasert who has 63,000 Facebook followers. By Saturday evening, the post was going viral with 19,000 shares and 122,000 likes.
The meme was accompanied by a comment from Luprasert making fun of President Trump’s statement that the Thai military vehicle blown up in a landmine accident was an “accident”.
“This post was an accident. I did not intend to post it,” wrote Luprasert in Thai.
Others argue the post could constitute incitement of violence to a sitting US President, an offense under U.S. law.
John Anthony is an American law enforcement official and politician who served as a police officer and the sheriff of Kendall County, Illinois prior to becoming a member of House of Representatives. He is the host of Black & Right, a popular US political talkshow in the Northwest. Anthony was critical of the meme and said it may spark further investigation.
“This is something that should be looked carefully at by law enforcement and especially by the secret service in my opinion,” said Anthony. “Especially following the horrifying attempt on the President’s life during the election campaign and the recent assasination of Charlie Kirk, I don’t think we can afford to take anything of this kind lightly at all now.”
Another US Navy source who works at the Pentagon said in an interview on background that in his view the post constituted political violence and should be looked at closely.
This is the second controversy to blow up around the Thai-Cambodian conflict by a Thai influencer this year. In September, Gun Jompalang was the subject of domestic and international criticism for playing sounds over 120 decibels, higher than the legal limit, into a residential area in northern Cambodia.
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raphic images too disturbing for social media have surfaced in the past 48 hours, showing Cambodian civilians with severed necks, Thai soldiers stripping badges from dead Cambodian troops and posing with corpses, and fresh victims of Thai F-16 airstrikes.
Cambodian authorities accuse Thailand of shelling populated villages 28 km inside its border earlier this week, striking Prey Chan and Chouk Cheay, the latter of which has now been taken over.
On 7-10 December, Thai fighter jets carrying bombs entered Cambodian airspace in a major escalation of the recent border conflict.
By Wednesday, Thai ground forces had advanced inland, capturing the key town of Boeung Trakoun and neighbouring Sompov Lun district.
The violence has displaced 37,000 families—around 128,000 people, over half women and children—who are now sheltering in emergency centres across six northern provinces.
Bangkok has not commented on the allegations of airstrikes, territorial incursions, or the circulating atrocity images apart from Prime Minister Anutin’s recent statements that peacetime is over. International calls for an immediate ceasefire remain unanswered as both sides reinforce troops along the disputed border.
These pictures show real cost of the present conflict up close from sources in the middle of the Cambodian border war. The images are so shocking in many cases they are too disturbing for social media and mainstream media refuses to publish them.
I am publishing them here in this column today for two reasons: first, in any conflict, there must be rules of engagement between two sides; limits about what can and can’t be allowed to happen.
Second, for all the noises from would-be peacekeepers around the world, such as the UN and other Southeast Asian nations,. we will never get to the point where we have peace unless we isolate and call out individual war crimes in real time. Many of these crimes pictured contravene the Geneva Conventions, which is the guiding law in all combat.
My aim is to ensure that no more of this is allowed to continue anymore.
Children Running For Their Lives
Cambodian children ran from a school in a border town to take shelter from Thai F-16 airstrikes.
Bus Bomb
A Cambodian bus far from the border was hit by bombs, killing civilians
Cut Throat
Thai forces allegedly left a Cambodian military officer for dead after cutting his neck. He was later rescued by brave Cambodian army heros who never left a soldier behind.
Similar disturbing neck-cutting incidents have been identified elsewhere along the border.
F-16 Casualties
Thailand posses F-16 fighter jets, giving it an air advantage that Cambodia lacks. As a result of intensive bombing this week, civilian casualties caught in the crossfire of these and drone blasts are mounting up.
Geneva Convention Violations
Video footage appears to show Thai military personnel removing a patch from the uniform of a deceased Cambodian officer who was a firewall from Thai bombing over schools and neighborhoods. This is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention caught on tape.
If peacekeeping institutions worldwide such as the UN are broken beyond repair to prevent further catastrophes of this kind in Cambodia, Americans who voted for President Trump will soon start to ask – what are we paying for?
