Donald Trump's "Star of David" Hillary Meme Created by White Supremacists

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Via Mic

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!" 

Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump's Twitter account 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 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. 

It is currently unclear as to whether Trump's team found this image from @FishBoneHead1's Twitter account, from /pol/ or from another digital repository for racist, xenophobic and violent imagery. When Trump's team sources memes, images and other forms of media from Twitter, the team has a longstanding pattern of attributing the account from which they found it. Among the many benefits of this practice of attribution is that it creates a desirable distance between thepresidential candidate and the images he tweets. This distance can — and has — proven beneficial when the account tweets something inflammatory and racist.

 

[PartySick 172,486]

Mexicans
Muslims
Women
Gay people
Handicapped people
Veterans (especially P.O.W.'s)
and now, Jewish people

Donald Trump, everybody

[JustAnotherDay 8,402]

Why am I not surprised... The worst part is this isn't the first time he has taken a graphic from a white-supremacist 

[Didymus 34,380]

Nvm omg I'm an idiot ànd my brain completely misinterpreted the pic

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

1 hour ago, Didymus said:

Nvm omg I'm an idiot ànd my brain completely misinterpreted the pic

[brendablethyn 536]

Ugh I'm so sick of this from Hillary and the left media. Can we talk about the real issues at some point?

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

22 minutes ago, brendablethyn said:

Ugh I'm so sick of this from Hillary and the left media. Can we talk about the real issues at some point?

You're kidding right?

 

[brendablethyn 536]

1 minute ago, LebaneseDude said:

You're kidding right?

No

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

Just now, brendablethyn said:

No

There's no way in hell you could be accusing Hillary and the "left" media of being the ones not to focus on the issues as opposed to the ones who slap a scandal card on everything Hillary does and constantly deflect from Trump's blatant failures to label Hillary as "corrupt".

Trump is a walking scandal yet the focus is on Hillary?

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

@brendablethyn

Oh and these ARE issues. Xenophobia is a major problem facing the USA and you are dismissing it.

[brendablethyn 536]

1 minute ago, LebaneseDude said:

There's no way in hell you could be accusing Hillary and the "left" media of being the ones not to focus on the issues as opposed to the ones who slap a scandal card on everything Hillary does and constantly deflect from Trump's blatant failures to label Hillary as "corrupt".

Trump is a walking scandal yet the focus is on Hillary?

Um look at the front page of the Huffington Post there's like 15 different articles on it before anything else and calling him names like a liar, even though he's said it was not intended as being anti-semetic but a sheriffs badge. Talk about an over reaction. 

[Tokyo Rose 1,475]

5 minutes ago, brendablethyn said:

even though he's said it was not intended as being anti-semetic but a sheriffs badge. Talk about an over reaction. 

Geometry is racist apparently 

[Goosey 3,017]

3 hours ago, brendablethyn said:

Um look at the front page of the Huffington Post there's like 15 different articles on it before anything else and calling him names like a liar, even though he's said it was not intended as being anti-semetic but a sheriffs badge. Talk about an over reaction. 

Oh my God!

Sheriffs are anti-semitic!

 

 

[Goosey 3,017]

 

[Melech 9,900]

12 hours ago, Tokyo Rose said:

Geometry is racist apparently 

Omg stop it lmao. It was anti Semitic. Just accept it. I know you hate Jews, but please stop.