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NamesDave

(58 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:41 PM Mar 2017

10yo 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 Alabama’s Briarwood Christian School who were taking a tour of the White House.

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 Pepe’s prominence waned after the election, he is still regularly invoked by provocative right wing pundits. The Gateway Pundit‘s 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.”


It’s 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.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/is-that-cute-kid-trump-met-at-the-white-house-today-making-the-pepe-symbol/

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
Have you ever seen the film "Jesus Camp"? loyalsister Mar 2017 #1
Future brown shirt? Initech Mar 2017 #2
Next Attorney General lame54 Mar 2017 #8
in Milo's regiment Swagman Mar 2017 #9
I don't think it's fair to lay something like that on a 10 year-old who Tanuki Mar 2017 #3
. NamesDave Mar 2017 #5
Sorry, it's too pervasive on the internet it some circles. White males get no slack from me. KittyWampus Mar 2017 #12
It is kind of disgusting to see a child do it. Doreen Mar 2017 #4
Trump pops from behind the screen like a Birthday Party clown leftstreet Mar 2017 #6
Trump is acting like such a DICK in this video. He is such an ass. anneboleyn Mar 2017 #7
I don't think much acting was required. smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #21
Another question - who were the tourists? malaise Mar 2017 #10
Birmingham Alabamas Briarwood Christian School... Raine1967 Mar 2017 #13
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm malaise Mar 2017 #15
ooOOoo Raine1967 Mar 2017 #17
don't know how you keep your sense of humor. this sh*t's on my last nerve KittyWampus Mar 2017 #18
You have to laugh malaise Mar 2017 #19
the article says that Trump also uses this thug-gesture. If anyone knows of a photo KittyWampus Mar 2017 #11
Another DUER posted this Trump nose flag link a few days ago. Tanuki Mar 2017 #14
that was highly amusing photoshops! But disturbing he uses a gang-sign KittyWampus Mar 2017 #16
learned at home? dembotoz Mar 2017 #20
Calling a 10 year old a racist off of just this is sketchy at best mythology Mar 2017 #22
he's NamesDave Mar 2017 #23

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
1. Have you ever seen the film "Jesus Camp"?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:45 PM
Mar 2017

Indoctrination process is alive and well in the US and has been for a long time.

Tanuki

(16,469 posts)
3. I don't think it's fair to lay something like that on a 10 year-old who
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:57 PM
Mar 2017

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.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
12. Sorry, it's too pervasive on the internet it some circles. White males get no slack from me.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 06:38 PM
Mar 2017

malaise

(296,799 posts)
19. You have to laugh
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:11 PM
Mar 2017

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
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 06:36 PM
Mar 2017

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.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 06:49 PM
Mar 2017

He makes the gesture or some semblance of it regularly.

http://m.imgur.com/gallery/ryLMX

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