Posted on 07/15/2015 5:49:34 AM PDT by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Donald Trump is in the spotlight again after his presidential campaign put the blame on an intern for a social media mistake.
Trump’s Twitter account posted a picture of Nazi soldiers. The image features an American flag, a portrait of Trump, money, the White House, and soldiers all combined in one photo.
Twitter users pointed out the soldiers in the bottom-right of the photo are not American. They were German World War II soldiers wearing Nazi uniforms.
The photo was flagged and the Trump campaign quickly deleted the tweet shortly after.
A Trump spokesman said the intern tweeted the picture before staffers could review it.
“A young intern created and posted the image and did not see the very faded figures within the flag of the stock photo,” the spokesperson told The Guardian. “The intern apologized and immediately deleted the tweet.”
According to The Guardian, in the same hour the Nazi image was tweeted, USA Today released a poll showing Trump is now the leading candidate for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.
It showed Trump is ahead of the Republican field with 17 percent of support. Florida governor Jeb Bush is right behind him at 14 percent.
As of now, it is unclear if the Nazi tweet mistake will affect voters.
Didn’t some dim display use Russian ships or aircraft?
I can see how someone not too keen on military uniforms could make this stupid mistake.
When that new helmet style came out a couple decades ago I thought it mimicked the Nazi one of WWII. Then the camo style of one of the German soldiers vaguely resembles our modern camo.
So you take some low information person searching the web and to them just about anything will do.
I hope this jerk gets canned big time.
“You’re fired”
“You’re fired”
Excellent points.
What could be more GAY homosexual than "tweeting" on "Twitter"?
I had to look close to tell, and the ONLY way I could tell they are German soldiers is the rifles they were carrying.
You know that the picture with the Confederate flag in the background was photoshopped, right?
I did not know that; I won’t use it again. It doesn’t change the meaning of a Confederate Battle Flag on their campaign buttons, but it’s better to be accurate.
Anyone can make a campaign button (and most are not actually made by the campaign itself), but if she wanted to be consistent about it, the least she could have done would be to distance herself from the buttons.
According to this article they were neither American nor actual WWII German soldiers (who may or may not have been Nazis anyway):
Mother Jones can now reveal that the image in question was taken at a World War II reenactment near Kent, England, some time within the last five years, according to its photographer, George Cairns.
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