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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums10yo making Nazi Salute at WH tour?
President Donald Trump on Tuesday took time away from berating his staff and making wiretapping claims to drop in on a group of visiting students from Birmingham Alabamas Briarwood Christian School who were taking a tour of the White House.http://www.mediaite.com/online/is-that-cute-kid-trump-met-at-the-white-house-today-making-the-pepe-symbol/
Things stayed pretty on script as Trump invited a 10-year-old to pose with him for the cameras. The touching moment was captured in a brief video posted to CSPAN, which ultimately made its way to their Twitter account.
Largely unnoticed, however, was a curious hand gesture made by the 10-year-old toward the end of the footage. In a simpler time, the gesture could have been written off as an ok symbol but not today. The hand movement bears a striking similarity to one that has often been made by the ultimate Trump meme warrior, Pepe the Frog.
The animated frog reached near mythical status during the 2016 campaign, earning a special condemnation from Hillary Clinton and hate symbol status from the Anti-Defamation League.
While Pepes prominence waned after the election, he is still regularly invoked by provocative right wing pundits. The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft and Lucian Wintrich, for example, recently flashed the gesture from the White House briefing room, prompting Media Matters to once again remind everyone that it was a hand signal associated with the racist Pepe meme.
Its also worth noting that the gesture is widely used by President Trump himself and that the young man may have just been trying to emulate the President of the United States.
This is unbelievable did they get these kids straight out of Hitler's Youth Camp?
Who is teaching this kid this horrible things I want to give the benefit of the doubt but in drumpf world this seems OK. This kid needs to be taken from his deplorable parents and sent on the correct route thru life.
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10yo making Nazi Salute at WH tour? (Original Post)
NamesDave
Mar 2017
OP
Sorry, it's too pervasive on the internet it some circles. White males get no slack from me.
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#12
the article says that Trump also uses this thug-gesture. If anyone knows of a photo
KittyWampus
Mar 2017
#11
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)1. Have you ever seen the film "Jesus Camp"?
Indoctrination process is alive and well in the US and has been for a long time.
Initech
(108,928 posts)2. Future brown shirt?
lame54
(39,873 posts)8. Next Attorney General
Swagman
(1,934 posts)9. in Milo's regiment
Tanuki
(16,469 posts)3. I don't think it's fair to lay something like that on a 10 year-old who
might very well have been making an innocent "OK" sign. You could be correct, but if not, you are really damaging a child for no reason at all.
I'd believe you if he wantsnt visiting hitler in tje first place
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)12. Sorry, it's too pervasive on the internet it some circles. White males get no slack from me.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)4. It is kind of disgusting to see a child do it.
leftstreet
(41,039 posts)6. Trump pops from behind the screen like a Birthday Party clown
ugh
anneboleyn
(5,626 posts)7. Trump is acting like such a DICK in this video. He is such an ass.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)21. I don't think much acting was required.
God, I hate him with such a passion!
malaise
(296,799 posts)10. Another question - who were the tourists?
Ordinary folks or militia/RW goons?
Raine1967
(11,678 posts)13. Birmingham Alabamas Briarwood Christian School...
That's all we know.
malaise
(296,799 posts)15. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lil Sessions
That didn't cross my mind, malaise!
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)18. don't know how you keep your sense of humor. this sh*t's on my last nerve
malaise
(296,799 posts)19. You have to laugh
or they'll kill you with shit.
I'd love the background - come in Dixiegrrrl
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)11. the article says that Trump also uses this thug-gesture. If anyone knows of a photo
please please please post a link. Thanks in advance.
Tanuki
(16,469 posts)14. Another DUER posted this Trump nose flag link a few days ago.
He makes the gesture or some semblance of it regularly.
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ryLMX
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)16. that was highly amusing photoshops! But disturbing he uses a gang-sign
so often.
dembotoz
(16,922 posts)20. learned at home?
mythology
(9,527 posts)22. Calling a 10 year old a racist off of just this is sketchy at best
literally a little hitler. he knows full well the hate that symbol means