2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDonald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Clinton Meme Was Created by White Supremacists
"Donald Trump tweeted a meme Saturday that used dog-whistle anti-Semitism to announce that his political rival, "Crooked Hillary," had "made history." The meme Trump tweeted prominently featured the Star of David a holy symbol of the Jewish religion that Nazis attempted to pervert by forcing Jews over the age of 6 to sew it onto their clothing during Hitler's reign.
Emblazoned onto the Star of David in Trump's meme are the words "Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!"
The star lies atop a giant pile of money.
Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump's Twitter wasn't the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Donald Trump's rhetoric as early as June 22, over a week before Trump's team tweeted it.
Though the thread where the meme was featured no longer exists, you can find it by searching the URL in Archive.is, a "time capsule of the internet" that saves unalterable text and graphic of webpages. Doing so allows you to see the thread on /pol/ as it originally existed.
Of note is the file name of the photo, HillHistory.jpg, potentially a nod to the Neo-Nazi code for "HH," or "Heil Hitler," which the alt-right is fond of hiding in plain sight. "
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.mic.com/articles/amp/147711/donald-trump-s-star-of-david-hillary-clinton-meme-was-created-by-white-supremacists
Trump might be out before the convention if this keeps up. It's almost like self sabotage.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)It's not one tweet, or the family history, or his denial of knowing David Duke...its the sum total of all of those things that should give most normal persons on this planet pause to consider the motivations of this asshole and his self serving agenda
JudyM
(29,536 posts)Which only reveals it more for what it represents.