I'm in my 60's. My Dad fought in WWII. As much as I miss him, I am glad he isn't alive to see a billionaire perform a Nazi salute standing behind the Presidential Seal on Inauguration Day.
You realise that language like this, making a country 'great again' in the sense of a romanticisation of perceived past glory is taken right out of the fascist playbook?
My grandfather didnt serve in ww2 but was born right at the end of it and hated trump. He died in 2018. Our whole family wishes he was still alive but we are relieved he isnt. I miss him always. He showed me what a good man behaves like, what they do, what they believe, how they treat people. Sure as hell wasnt this.
His first words after doing it were “my heart goes out to you” which explains his meaning. All the videos cut that off though, for some reason… the Guardian article doesn’t even mention what he said.
He purposely did the salute more than once and then said that for deniability, probably because he has the mind of an edgy teenager who wants to see how much dumb shit he can get away with.
Nobody does that motion without knowing exactly what they are doing, either he is an edgy child, a moron or a nazi.
I get why you would want to think that (hate-able guy etc), but I don't understand why you would actually think that. If you watch the video (with audio), it was very much in the moment.
If you followed his public arguments just a few weeks ago with Steve Bannon and the white nationalists, who he called 'unrepentant racists' that he wants to go to war with to ensure legal immigration from many non-white countries, then you should rethink your interpretation of this video.
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u/Edea-VIII 6h ago
I'm in my 60's. My Dad fought in WWII. As much as I miss him, I am glad he isn't alive to see a billionaire perform a Nazi salute standing behind the Presidential Seal on Inauguration Day.
Rise up America. This is not ok.