--- title: Person Behind Donald Trump's CNN GIF Video Apologizes description: The Reddit user who claimed credit for making Trump's CNN-punching video is apologizing for racist posts in the past. canonical: https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/ author: Madeline Farber article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-05T11:53:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:06.262Z article:section: Politics og:title: The Person Behind Trump's CNN-Punching GIF Is Now Apologizing og:description: "I love and accept people of all walks of life and have done so my entire life." og:url: https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfdbabe62ba36c1/6988d4680a4a2222f89ceeb5/trump-wrestle-cnn.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2880 og:image:height: 1620 og:image:alt: trump-wrestle-cnn og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Person Behind Trump's CNN-Punching GIF Is Now Apologizing twitter:description: "I love and accept people of all walks of life and have done so my entire life." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfdbabe62ba36c1/6988d4680a4a2222f89ceeb5/trump-wrestle-cnn.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Person Behind Trump's CNN-Punching GIF Is Now Apologizing > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jul 5, 2017 11:53 AM UTC  Twitter/Donald Trump Twitter/Donald Trump Twitter/Donald Trump by [Madeline Farber](https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/) ## Madeline Farber Jul 5, 2017 11:53 AM UTC The Reddit user who claimed credit for creating the animated GIF showing President [Donald Trump body slamming CNN’s logo](http://time.com/4843303/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-video/) is apologizing for [racist and anti-Semitic comments](http://time.com/4843738/donald-trump-twitter-cnn-reddit/) he reportedly made in the past. “I would like to apologize to the members of the Reddit community for getting this site and this sub embroiled in a controversy that should never have happened,” wrote the user, who goes by “HanA–holeSolo” on the site. “I am in no way this kind of person. I love and accept people of all walks of life and have done so my entire life.” The original post has been deleted, but not before screenshots of the message were posted online. > [](https://twitter.com/Walldo/status/882344790376894465) Trump posted a version of the CNN video on July 2\. “HanA–holeSolo,” the Reddit user, claimed credit for creating it soon thereafter. That led reporters to [analyze his or her history on the site](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/). In June, the user posted a graphic critical of Jewish staffers at CNN. On Sunday, the user wrote “F— ISLAM.” A comment about a photo of crowd of refugees read “there’s a MOAB (Mother of All Bomb’s) for that.” “Free speech is a right we all have, but it shouldn’t be used in the manner that it was in the posts that were put on this site,” the user wrote in his or her apology. “I do not advocated violence against the press and the meme I posted was in no way advocating that in any way, shape, or form.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/"},"headline":"The Person Behind Trump's CNN-Punching GIF Is Now Apologizing","datePublished":"2017-07-05T11:53:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:06.262Z","description":"\"I love and accept people of all walks of life and have done so my entire life.\"","url":"https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Newsfeed","Internet","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfdbabe62ba36c1/6988d4680a4a2222f89ceeb5/trump-wrestle-cnn.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Madeline Farber","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/madeline-farber/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7cfdbabe62ba36c1/6988d4680a4a2222f89ceeb5/trump-wrestle-cnn.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"trump-wrestle-cnn","caption":"Twitter/Donald Trump","creditText":"Twitter/Donald Trump","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4844908/reddit-user-trump-cnn-video-racist-post-apology/","name":"The Person Behind Trump's CNN-Punching GIF Is Now Apologizing"}}]}] ```