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Posted on 06/17/2026 9:41:22 AM PDT by Salman
A 21-year-old University of Illinois Chicago senior says he is the person who set fire to a cross in Grant Park last week, though he insists he had no idea that burning crosses are a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan.
Merlin Lu told NBC 5 in an interview Monday that his target was not a racial group, but rather supporters of President Donald Trump, whom he described as “MAGA Christian nationalist supporters.” His chosen method of protest: placing a red baseball cap atop a cross, the central symbol of Christianity, and setting it ablaze.
“I don’t want to wait until the term ends. I don’t want to wait until he may or may not get impeached. I want him gone right now,” Lu said of Trump in a video he sent to NBC5 before agreeing to sit down for the interview.
Lu told reporter Chuck Goudie that he carried wood from his apartment to the park, built the cross there, set a plain red baseball cap on top to represent MAGA, then wrapped the structure in lighter fluid-soaked toilet paper and set it ablaze. He said the message was also aimed at what he called the “ruling class,” where, in his words, “money controls everything.”
When Goudie asked whether Lu had become a college senior without learning that a burning cross is one of the most divisive symbols in America, Lu seemed to believe the symbolism was religious, not racial.
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In any case -- That'll show us, right? 
At least no one can say this immigrant has not assimilated into American culture.
Unfortunately it's leftist hate-America-first university culture.
Ok. Maybe we are making too much out of it always being someone mentally ill. Maybe some of blame belongs to outright military age male professional seditionists. I can believe the SMIDs would latch onto something like that.
And that message is: I'M RETARDED!
The TDS-suffering liar knew just was doing.
Probably earned social credits with ChiCom party, too.
Sounds like his legal theory is terminal stupidity. However his Asian ethnicity may work against him.
Probably doesn’t know what a naughtZee tattoo is either. Or a hammer an cycle. Or what the little red book is. Or that the dems are the root of the kkk. Sooooooo much ignorance out there.
Yeller Supremacy.
Mr. Lu needs to work on a southern SPLC accent.
FU LU.
Living in the realm, this little local story has produced no shortage of giggles for me.
As a friend and I were laughing over cocktails the other night: You couldn’t construct a better caricature of a leftist idiot. People would say it’s too unrealistic.
But... there he is. He’s real. And once we stopped laughing? Well, crap. He’ll probably be the next mayor of Chicago.
You have to love the complete media 180 - hate crime! Hate speech! Shows MAGA bigotry!
Oh… it was an anti-maga statement? Well then we need to learn more about this message and what the man’s intended meaning was.
Oh yeah - “If you all weren’t such bigots I wouldn’t have to do that! You MADE me do that!” Right, kid...
Tolerant fellow.
The left needs to decide what Trump supporters are: (1) treasonous supporters of Putin and Russia; or (2) Christian nationalists. We can’t be both.
From his video you can see he is clearly autistic, and perhaps bi-polar, like most of Antifa and the pro-Pali crowd.
Whatever message I was supposed to get must have gone straight into my Spam folder.
Way to go, kid. This’ll do wonders when you’re looking for a job after you graduate from that very expensive university.
Mewin Roo is comedian but round eyes too stupid to understand joke.
The author never mentioned Merlin’s major.
Communications?
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