Donald Trump campaign tweets photo with Nazi soldiers – then leads polls

In the same hour an intern posted an American flag campaign graphic featuring Nazi re-enactors, a national poll placed Trump in first place among Republicans

Donald Trump, stacks of money, the White House, an American flag ... and, apparently, Nazi soldiers: is this the face of the new Republican frontrunner for president of the United States?

The real-estate mogul turned entertainer turned political rabble-rouser-in-chief tweeted a photo of himself on Tuesday – #MakeAmericaGreatAgain – which, upon closer inspection, revealed something shocking to his 3.2 million followers.



Though the soldiers Photoshopped behind a red stripe of the American flag would seem to be members of the country’s armed forces, the soldiers actually have the SS eagle insignia on their arms. At least one of the troops is wearing the dot camouflage print associated with Nazis.



The campaign appears to have used a stock image – available online – of re-enactors, not actual SS soldiers.



That didn’t stop the Trump campaign from deleting its tweet and blaming the incident on “a young intern”.

In the same hour as the apparent Nazi imagery surfaced, USA Today released a poll showing that Trump is now the leading candidate for the Republican party’s presidential nomination.



USA TODAY Washington

@USATWashington

Poll: Trump leads the GOP field but falters against Clinton http://usat.ly/1IYpxkI via @SusanPage and @e_raftery
8:05 PM - 14 Jul 2015

The nationwide survey has Trump out ahead of the Republican field – now 15 competitors and counting – with 17% of support. Florida governor Jeb Bush follows at 14%.

Trump jumped six percentage points in the USA Today/Suffolk University poll from June to July, a period during which he erroneously accused the Mexican government of deliberately sending drugs, rapists and criminals to the US and asserted – to legions of supporters – that “I’m, like, a really smart person”.

When stacked up against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, the same survey showed that he polled worse than six other Republican candidates. Earlier on Tuesday, as Clinton was making remarks on Capitol Hill about her deliberations over the landmark nuclear deal with Iran, Trump released a statement about her: “She is obviously very nervous when she has to revert to issues that have already been settled given the absolute accuracy of my statement” on Mexico.

It remains unclear how the Nazi slip-up will affect Trump’s standing with voters. The error was uncovered after Twitter user Michael Niemerg asked Trump on Tuesday if the soldiers in his campaign image were part of the army that defended Nazi Germany, the Wehrmacht.

Internet sleuths quickly investigated the matter:

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal)
July 14, 2015

.@MichaelNiemerg @realDonaldTrump's soldiers do seem to bear Wehrmacht insignia pic.twitter.com/3ZxVK4SBJT

A campaign spokesperson said that Trump has spent the day at the opening of a development in Charlottesville, Virginia, and that an intern was responsible for the tweet.

“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.”

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/14/donald-trump-nazi-soldiers-tweet-top-republican-polls

There are a section of Americans who are truly nuts, Trump supporters would fall into that category.

Mind you, we have our nutters too, and some of them are on this forum

Weekly Standard wrote:But while Trump currently reigns in the primary, he would lose double-digits against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. In a head-to-head match-up, Clinton would beat Trump 51 percent to 34 percent, according to the poll.

The Republican polls reveal only how confused the Republicans are. The Republican population is so weak that it is vulnerable to erratic mood swings. It's a problem for Republicans, but not for the nation as a whole.

Actually leading the race for the Republican nomination is "Undecided," with a whopping 35 percent support -- more than twice that of Trump.

I wish Trump got more Republican support -- I do think he represents the mainstream Republican and it would be good for America to see that.

Also, this:

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/6/10/5797056/donald-trump-fake-quote-twitter

Well, they are always shooting themselves in the foot. That is because of the brevity of reason with which they believe things.

Trump's diatribe on Mexicans is a case in point. He lambastes all Mexicans as drug dealers and rapists, but expects that "good" Mexicans will understand him...and turn out in droves to vote for him:

The Guardian wrote:Donald Trump has declared that he will “win the Latino vote” in the 2016 presidential election, despite his declaration upon announcing his candidacy that Mexicans seeking immigration to the US were “rapists”.

“I have a great relationship with the Mexican people,” the real-estate mogul turned aspiring president said in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday.

Who are the "good" Mexicans? Well, certainly not the Mexican government, which is responsible for sending all the bad Mexicans over the border. So, good Mexicans are neither the elite of Mexico nor the Mexicans who are already in the United States.

So, in our search for the 'good' Mexicans, we know they are not in the US, they are not the elites sending bad Mexicans to the US. A 'good' Mexican is one who stays at home and doesn't bother us. But how are they going to vote for Donald Trump if they are not here?

See...the message is not well thought out.

What a trumpet. I really hope he is the Republican candidate leaving Hilary to rinse him and ease into the White House.

Donald Trump is the James Holmes or John Russell Houser of the Republican primary race.  He's just there to leave a lot of dead bodies in the field.

He will get his in the second or third debate, where he has to explain in detail some of his policies.  Right now he has no policies; he's just using slogans for shock value.  He doesn't have to defend anything. And, he won't have the skills to to defend something when he has it. As I say, he's just a shock jock.

In the first debate the other candidates will want to lay low and see how he responds...and how the polls go.  Then, depending on what they learn, they will know how to take him on...as I say, in the second or third debate.

Just be aware that members of Trump's family are also into trophy hunting, and that he's proud of them for doing that.

@rags
Umm I don't think it is a nice comparison
(the president from Idiocracy)


President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho lays down his 3 point plan for fixing the nation.

What isn't a nice comparison Veya? Isn't this thread about reasons not to vote for Donald Trump? I was giving another reason.

I thought it was in response to the previous posts
the way you word it 'just be aware' made it sound like we were planning to vote for him

I hope no one on here would do that

veya_victaous wrote:I thought it was in response to the previous posts
the way you word it 'just be aware' made it sound like we were planning to vote for him  

I hope no one on here would do that

Oh I see.

I'm sure no one on here would do such a thing, but just in case you know someone who might, you could point it out to them.

veya_victaous wrote:

Surely it is better than this.