Trump Campaign T-shirts Condemned for Displaying 'Nazi-Inspired' Symbol (Nutty Leftists and RINOs Alert)

Social media users have condemned merchandise promoting President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, saying it is reminiscent of Nazi imagery.

Available for both men and women, a 100-percent cotton T-shirt retailing for $30 carries the words "America First" above an image of an eagle looking to its left with spread out wings and its talons holding a circular version of the American flag.

Available on Trump's re-election campaign website, the product description says that it is "proudly made in the USA" and appeals to would-be buyers to show their support for re-electing the incumbent president, with the message: "Let everyone know who you are voting for in 2020.

"We finally have a president that puts America first. America is strong again, safe again, great again," it adds.

The group Bend the Arc: Jewish Action tweeted: "Trump & Pence are proudly displaying a Nazi-inspired shirt on their official campaign website. They are promoting genocidal imagery yet again—just days after President Trump retweeted a video of a supporter chanting 'white power.'"

PACE tweeted an image of the Trump logo with the Nazi imagery next to each other and wrote to his 24,000 followers: "Trump's new logo looks almost looks familiar. Where else have I seen that eagle style standing on a circle?" Among the almost 8,000 people who shared his tweet was the former director of the CIA, General Michael Hayden whose response was: "Holy sh*t."

The group of Republicans opposing Trump, The Lincoln Project, was equally succinct with its opinion of the T-Shirt, tweeting: "Come. On." Tom Nichols from the Lincoln project tweeted: "This is not some standard American eagle, this is a Trump graphics guy thinking he's being clever and trolling the world by saying "mayyyybe it's close."

I believe the Philadelphia Eagles football team were named in honor of the NRA blue eagle. There was a lot of pressure for businesses to join the ‘voluntary’ NRA which controlled wages, hours, and prices. If you joined, you got to put the blue eagle in your shop window. People were encouraged to only patronize businesses that displayed the blue eagle.

The NRA was struck down by SCOTUS over a case involving the shipment of ducks. Too many ducks on a truck were a NRA violation. This wasn’t to ensure the ducks’ comfort during shipment, but rather the requirement to have two duck truck drivers employed.

FDR was a fascist from before fascism was a thing. In 1912 he looked ahead to a future where "They passed beyond the liberty of the individual to do as he pleased with his own property and found it necessary to check this liberty for the benefit of the freedom of the whole people".

But wait, you say. He was young, that's not how he felt as President! Let's look at his first inaugural address then:

"If we are to go forward, we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline. We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline, because it makes possible a leadership which aims at a larger good. I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army … I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe."

Oh. He wanted an army of drones that obeyed unquestioningly the orders of their dear leader, who happened to be him. For the greater good, of course. So yeah, he still longed for the same world in 1932 that he had in 1912: one where people are servants of the state, denied rights of property and prosperity and liberty all for the good of the collective.

But wait one more time, you say. Surely that might indicate he's a communist but not a fascist! Au contraire! There is scant difference between the two. The key differences are that Fascists allow private ownership of business but only via crony capitalism where those business owners do as they are told by the state. You know, just like so-called Communist China (it's actually fascist). Like Hitler and Mussolini, both of whom FDR spoke glowingly of in the early '30s, FDR never pushed to ban public industry but he did move to regulate it like never before and if the SCOTUS hadn't struck down a lot of what he'd done it would have ended up a lot closer to what was going on in Italy and Germany than it did.

But the bottom line is that FDR loved fascism, he praised it and said he took inspiration from it. Until it became unfashionable, that is.

That eagle’s not even remotely like a Nazi eagle. It’s not even in the style of a European eagle- Europeans tend to put a bit of a crest on theirs that trails off the back of the head. Early American eagles had it too due to the colonist’s strong attachment to European design.

Evidently the Soros weenies have forgotten their own George being a member of the Arrow Cross ... and never looked at the US Marine’s own eagle-on-globe design.

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