Fact Check: Yes, Trump posted link that included Nazi symbol for gay men in concentration camps

Show of hands anyone who truly expected differently from this miserable attempt at an administration or from the current occupant(s) of the oval office.

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I’m not a brain-rotted idiot, so, obviously, yes.
Please excuse me while I go bury my hand.

He should be arrested

Far too kind.
It would just be another photo op for merch and the White House Wall of Fame.
He was. Not for that. Didn't stick.
Somebody should propose something effective and realistic.
- Have at it.

It's gotta be uncomfortable being a journalist on Truth Social who only has an account there specifically so they can capture screenshots of Trump's latest dogwhistle post to publish in articles.

And doesn't Truth Social require users to upload photos of their drivers licenses in order to sign up? Or am I thinking of Parler?

I dunno if that photo id requirement is TS or Parler, but I do know that ironically enough Truth Social is a self non-federated Mastodon instance.
- TIL. Ew. Thanks, I hate it.
  I guess that's part of the definition of Open Source, though. "No discrimination against fields of endeavor."

My head canon has the 'Greatest Generation' rising up from their graves ghost-like to attack the White House like a scene out of Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' movie.

(Assuming the Nazi claim is true and Trump wasn't just being his normal clueless self.)

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Because the various Allied countries considered homosexuality a crime, those prisoners who had not finished serving their sentence under Paragraph 175 had to do so
The 1935 version of Paragraph 175 – one of the few Nazi-era laws that remained in force and unaltered in West Germany – was upheld by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1957 and remained in force until 1969, when homosexuality was partially decriminalized.
I suspect that this undead army would be happy with Trump's attack against the LGBTQ
- FYI, I was talking about Allied citizens who fought in World War II, not Nazis.
  I do understand that you were talking about Nazi citizens, in relation to your LGBTQ comment.
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Pink triangle was reclaimed though. So IMO pink triangle with a cancel sign over it shouldn't be seen as nazi-level homophobia, just regular homophobia for Trump. Admittedly, Trump's a nazi, so...

I’m sorry, so you’re saying that using the hard R is fine because black people reclaimed the word?
Or would that be different?
- That is certainly different. Trump's not black. In contrast, "queer," pink triangle, and other reclaimed homophobic slurs are encouraged for general use. Try another slur instead as a counterargument please.
  As an illustration of what I mean -- IMO it'd be much worse if he said "no fags" or something like that.

I think his actions speak far louder than symbols in articles he links.

Sometimes I wonder if this dude is an actual nazi or just a delusional wacko steeped in nazi ideology...

(jk they're the same thing)

I’m sure it’s not the first, and absolutely positive, that it isn’t the last time

You would think the GOP and right wing in the U.S. would have put the main culture war issue behind us after Barack Obama and the Roberts Supreme Court told them it's all good now... But here we are...

I don't want to defend trump, but does the article author he linked to, know what that is?

Thr article seems to just talk about saying trump wants to make the army "tougher" more "formidable" with ads not focusing on the diversity of the army, its many missons and soldiers but just in raw individual "masculine" strength.

Yes, a military formed on that sort of ethos can be persumed to work agianst anyone not vehemently masculine, physically and mentally,

It doesn't seem the author or trump knew the meaning of the symbol.

I don’t want to defend trump, but does the article author he linked to, know what that is?
It doesn’t seem the author or trump knew the meaning of the symbol.
You may be totally right, sincerely, but also, its funny how each and every time the 'Nazi accusation' comes up that it can be potentially hand-waved away/excused as a simple mistake/misunderstanding, almost like if someone is doing that on purpose so that they can still signal but have an 'out' for the signaling. The President of the United States of America should be the LAST person to make those kind of mistakes.
Also drives up conflict so that people are not looking at "what the other hand is doing".
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- Also, once you did one accidental Nazism, someone who's very opposed to Nazis would double-check every future statement to make sure they didn't do that again. You can't make that mistake twice and plead ignorance.
- Oh, trump is clearly a hiitler fanboy, and he shows this clearly on a daily basis, yes. This is one the rare occasion he might have not known what he was sharing. Of course if the article was about using the army to put gays in concentration camps, im sure he would still support it.
It used to matter. 10 years ago, this would have been a non-starter for a political career. Now it’s, “Well, maybe he doesn’t know better. 🥺”
Take the article with the image and post it at your work. If you wouldn’t, do you think someone who did should get fired? I do.
It’s not a “misunderstanding.” He should take responsibility if he didn’t know better, but he won’t.
The dignity of that office has fallen so far. While the “lines went up” elsewhere in society, they went far down here.
- I don't know anyone at my work who might recognize that symbol. It looks like an article saying trump want a an army like russia, a toxicly masculine dictator machine. This doesn't make me think less of trump, 8 years ago when he talked about bombing innocents, I knew he was scum and maybe he crazy. Agian I'm not defending his character, but the yahoo article reeks of ai slop and it just feels like its made to hate for hate sake.
  Yeah, society has fallen everyone is out to hate, no one cares to think and form structured opinion, just spouting hateful rhetoric, and yes I know one side is trying to kill innocents while the other is trying to kill the people vying for thier death.
Any other newspaper should know better. The Washington Times doesn't want to know better, because "I didn't know" is a very convenient excuse when you publish Nazi shit every day.
Bullshit.
- and really, people think trump is smart enough to use critical thinking and inference to read between the lines and make a conclusion that isn't spoon fed to him?
- did you read the ai slop yahoo article or the Washington post op?
  The original article read more to say trump was trying to make a dictator machine, like russia, NKz or china, not concentration camps,
  of course trump would still support and share it if it was.
  Im not saying he's agianst putting us in concentration camps, he already has stsrted, im saying this was not our red flag
Washington Times is a right wing rag started by the Unification church which is pretty much a cult, and tries to trick people into thinking it's as legitimate as the Washington Post(which we can also argue it's legitimacy, being owned by Bezos). It's been criticized often, and any public figures who has quoted it more than once should know that, and are likely just ignoring the facts.
Just using the Washington Times makes him responsible.
It doesn’t seem the author or trump knew the meaning of the symbol.
Dude doesn't know anything. He's a delusional wacko. But a delusional wacko who regularly promotes nazi propaganda is still a nazi.
He's a West Point Graduate. Writing an article about the culture of the Army with an anti LGBTQ symbol and specifically calling out LGBTQ ads under previous administrations.
So no obviously he's dumb as a box of rocks and just stumbled into all of this bigotry....