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Donald Trump is known for his repeated “accidental” retweets of white supremacists, including one fellow with the lovely Twitter handle @WhiteGenocideTM.
Now he seems to be producing anti-Semitic propaganda in-house. Earlier today, The Donald tweeted — and that’s tweeted, not retweeted — the picture above featuring “Crooked Hillary” Clinton awash in cash next to a Star of David declaring her the “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!” [UPDATE: According to Mic, the pic appeared earlier on 8chan’s famously anti-Semitic /pol/ board]
After a bit of an outcry, Trump took the tweet down, then tweeted a second version of the Hillary pic with a circle replacing the star.
But if Trump was trying to send a little wink of acknowledgment and approval to his not-so-little army of neo-Nazi fanboys, well, that message was received loud and clear.
On the Daily Stormer, Andrew Anglin enthusiastically declared that:
Hero Trump has made history yet again by tweeting a meme of Hillary Clinton featuring her image with a Star of David over top hundred dollar bills. Inside the Jew star it reads “Most corrupt candidate ever!”
It is indeed true that she is the most corrupt candidate ever, and it is also indeed true that the overwhelming majority of her corruption money comes from Jew sources.
Anglin saw this as a “dog-whistle” message aimed at Trump’s neo-Nazi fanboys, intended to reassure them that he has their back, despite some recent remarks about Israel that didn’t exactly follow the neo-Nazi party line.
This is, yet again, dog-whistling by The Leader. It comes just after he made some offensive comments about Israel being our friend – he says this for the evangelicals, then he signals to us – his real supporters – that we need not worry, he is just shilling a bit to get into power at which point he will shut down the entire Jew agenda.
As Anglin sees it, Trump has to say positive things about Israel to appease evangelical Christians who have their own somewhat perverse reasons for supporting Israel. (And, no, the link in the last sentence didn’t come from the Daily Stormer post.)
Anglin reassures his readers that:
the evangelicals will listen to [Trump’s] pro-Israel statements, while we will listen to his signals. …
Besides the dog-whistling confirmation that these are just said to appease the evangacucks, Israel is currently the least immediately threatening aspect of the Jew agenda.
As Anglin sees it, it’s far more important that Trump is on the side of the Nazis when it comes to other more important elements of “the Jew agenda” like “[m]ass non-White immigration” and “[i]nsane social engineering programs.”
Trump’s more mainstream supporters can argue that these seeming winks aimed at his neo-Nazi fanbase are just a bit of carelessness on his part. I don’t think that even Trump is capable of this much “carelessness.”
H/T — A number of people alerted me to this story; the screenshot of his Tweet is from The Verge.
The circle didn’t really replace the star – a close look reveals two points are still visible.
I can’t believe the unintentional irony betrayed in this sentence.
Yes Anglin, he’s definitely only shilling to that group, the one he really loves is you, he would never shill to you, never.
I mean incredibly subtle nods being all it takes for you to kiss the ground he walks on? No way anyone with no compunctions about lying or who supports them would shill to such a desperate group.
He really really loves you and would never play you like that Anglin.
Trump and his fanboys are seriously beginning to scare me. And it’s not just fear for the lives of other people. Serbians and other Slavs were part of Nazi genocide programs. I really don’t want these crazy people target me or anybody else.
Between this and the alt-right’s reaction to Elie Wiesel’s death it’s been a banner day for anti-Semites.
You are judged by the company you keep. And since last time I checked the majority of voters in the US aren’t literal nazis, or ascribe to nazi ideology, I think the people know who not to pick.
I’m just confused as to why we still think Jews are the nefarious plotters. That shit is so 18th century. Can we get a hip new bigot trend already? Maybe everyone can be irrationally angry at the Bahá’í Faith for the next couple of hundred years instead.
I’m not gonna say a thing. I’m just gonna leave that there. If this is the typa thing you spam on the internets… I’m not gonna say a thing
Edit: keyboard arrrghhhh!
Please, Jews are probably the only minority he hasn’t said anything shitheaded about yet.
And Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton the most corrupt candidate ever while he’s losing a $50,000,000 fraud lawsuit sure is rich.
Trump is definitely a racist with some pretty pronounced fascistic tendencies. but, yeah, I don’t think he’s an anti-Semite, much less the raging anti-Semite his Nazi fans think he is.
Elie Wiesel died? Crap. 2016 is really murderous 🙁
It’s weird, I was thinking the other day about how I should reread Night. I read it when I was 13 or 14 so it’s been a long time.
I’m not sure I even want to know what the internet Nazis are saying about this.
To use antisemitism would spell his doom considering that we ally with jewish nations and people still remember nazi=bad.
@WWTH
Basically they like to believe that their version of hero worship of idols extends to Elie weasel and people sympathetic to his cause. What it boils down to them is some form of satisfaction after Scalia croaked the loathesome toad.
Why are we not talking about the refiling of the federal court case by the victim, alleging Trump knowingly repeatedly had sex with a 13 yr old? That happened last week and I’ve yet to see it really being talked about, it seems like the sort of thing David could do a good break down of.
Ooglyboggles:
“Jewish nations”?
Hillary Clinton’s money is evil.
Donald J. Trump’s money is wondrously magical!
Donald Trump is a bug zapper for bigots. They just can’t resist him, and it’s gruesome (but fascinating) for the rest of us to watch.
I like how the neo-Nazis think they’re the real deal, and any attempt to soften the message to appeal to the rest of the electorate is just “pandering”. Hate to break it to you boys, but numerically, you’re not going to be deciding this election. The decent adults who make up the other 70-80% of US voters are the ones who need to be persuaded. Guess what: we’re not as easily duped by substanceless hate rhetoric as you.
I’m glad Trump is using a megaphone instead of a dog whistle. He’s running the most blatantly corrupt, ham-handed and incompetent campaign in history, and in doing so he’s ripped the lid off the GOP’s “Southern strategy” and exposed them for what they really are: the party of hatred. This year, it’s going to be hard for the average voter to persuade themselves this is all about “law and order” (aka: scary dark criminals coming for our wimmenz) or “cutting taxes” (aka: hurting black people disproportionately) when you’ve got Trump all but using the N-word on national television.
Trump might not be overtly anti-Semitic, but he’s no friend of Jews. He kept a copy of “Mein Kampf” on his bedside table during the 1990s, according to Ivanka (and this is a guy who hasn’t read a single book since college), and has also made public comments throughout the years that he prefers Jews handling his money, wink nudge wink wink. Also, Trump Sr. had ties to the KKK.
@Buttercup, I’m not surprised far right ideology and anti-intellectualism are married together, what with Trump not reading a book except Mein Kampf since college and all. Even the far right people who do seem well-read, from what I’ve seen, only read a small collection of books that agrees with their ideology. (Their philosophers are Evola and Yockey, their social scientists are Rothbard and Murray etc.) They either completely reject everyone else or quote-mine or misquote other people.
Basically, they’re a massive circlejerk, but think everyone is brainwashed. Of course their dishonesty is shared among all political parties and ideologies to some extent or another, but with far right groups the dishonesty is the most blatant form I’ve ever seen. They’re so ludicrous they break Poe’s Law.
You know, I forgot about that Trump speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition that was full of jokes about Jews and money that apparently didn’t go over quite as well as he had hoped.
Evangacucks? Evangacucks??! That is it. We have finally reached peak cuckmanteau.
I still can’t get past how the Jewish people are so diabolically clever as to manipulate world events since forever and yet so blindingly stupid as to be fooled by such blatant dog whistles.
I have nothing to add to any of this except that I’m worried Romney will swoop in at the convention and be elected on a wave of relief + anti-Hillary sentiment.
I’m shocked, shocked! that the image was from /pol
On a more positive note, he (or his staff) really had to comb through those poll results to find something where the respondents were more negative about Clinton than Trump.
Is there a term for people whose use of certain words out them as members of a social group? Like, the use of ‘cuck’ as an insult outs someone as an alt-right/MRA type.
One wonders what Ivanka and her hubby think about this stuff? I suppose you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. 🙁
It might be hard to call your father a horrible bigot and racist and disown him, but you can choose whether to continue to publicly support your billionaire father when he runs a presidential campaign that is steeped in racism and misogyny to such an extent that he is revered by neo-Nazis.
She is every bit as complicit as the “Democrats/Hillary are worse” Republicans whose identity is wrapped up in being a supportive member of their political party, no matter the cost.