Nazis make surprise appearance in Donald Trump campaign ad
Trump campaign blames an intern for the inclusion of men wearing Nazi uniforms
Seeing Nazi imageryon the Internetisalways a bad sign doubly so when it's part of a campaign photoinsupport of apresidential candidate.
On the morning of July 14,a photo including the American flag, the hashtag#MakeAmericaGreatAgain, and four men wearing Nazi uniforms was posted toDonald Trump's Twitter account andFacebookpage.
They may behard to spotat first glance, but the soldiers marching towards Trump's face in the photoare in fact wearing the uniform of the Waffen-SS, part of the armed wing of the Nazi party.
@realDonaldTrump @20committee are those troops in the bottom Wehrmacht?! #falseflag
—@MichaelNiemergMichael Niemberg was the first to spot the men in the image,followed by blogger John Schindler.
Schindler tweeted that he's "100% certain" these are Nazi uniforms because of the style of camouflage and the SS eagle.
Notice the late-war Waffen-SS "dot" camo tunic, with SS eagle on left arm as in the Trump pic https://t.co/b3pwWmdwHY pic.twitter.com/ulScwicbZU
—@20committeeSchindler, along with many other Twitter users, then proceeded to mock Trump's use of Nazi imagery to "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain."
If you can't see the biting hilarity of tweeting Waffen-SS dudes under the slogan #MakeAmericaGreatAgain ....I got nothin'
—@20committeeThis is obviously just poorly-executed optics, but in @realDonaldTrump's case it's symbolic of his whole offensive, idiotic POTUS campaign.
—@reedfrichi guess hiring decent copywriters & graphic designers isn't part of @realDonaldTrump's plan to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain pic.twitter.com/i1429CC3rg
—@bakerbkAnother Twitter user found the origin of the soldiers' picture: Astock phototitled "Marching soldiers" on iStock, whichshows modelswalking through a field.
PhotographerGeorge Cairns snapped the photo during aSecond World War reenactment in Kent, England.
"I have photos of American soldiers as well," Cairns said to Mother Jones."But for some reason, politicians seem to be downloading Nazis."
Cairns added that Tim Spear, a Democrat in North Carolina's legislature, accidentallyused his brother's photo of men wearingNazi uniformsin a campaignflier.
Trump's campaign isblaming the use of this imageonan intern.
"A young intern created and posted the image and did not see the very faded figures within the flag of the stock photo. The intern apologized and immediately deleted the tweet," a spokesperson relayed to the Daily Dot.
The controversialposts havesince been deleted from Twitter and Facebook, though the morbidly curious can still see the imageon both accounts using archive.org.
Despite recent controversy, including labelingillegal immigrants from Mexicoas rapists, a USA Today poll lists Trump as leading the Republican presidential race.
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