Surprise (Not)! Donald Trump’s Anti-Semitic Meme Was Created by Neo-Nazi White Supremacists

Will President Donald Trump Continue to Scope Out Neo-Nazi Websites and Message Boards to Attack His Opponents?

Let’s pretend for a moment that it’s July 3, 2017, and President Donald Trump is engaged in a dangerous cold war battle with his former pal, Russian President Vladimir Putin. At around 6:30 AM from the Oval Office, a frustrated and totally over-his-head President Trump out of desperation tweets a meme of Vladimir Putin photoshopped to look like Hitler. Will July 4, 2017 be Independence Day, or the first day of war with Russia?

This is really where we are right now, if Trump is elected president.

On Saturday, at around 6:30 in the morning, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump tweeted an image of Hillary Clinton atop a bed of $100 bills, next to the Star of David, with the words, “Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!”

After hours of denouncements, led by journalists who immediately saw it for what it was, Trump actually deleted it and replaced the meme with one change only: the Star of David, aka the “Jewish Star,” was now a circle.

Mic News was the first to report the origins of the meme.

Mic discovered Sunday that Donald Trump’s Twitter account wasn’t the first place the meme appeared. The image was previously featured on /pol/ — an Internet message board for the alt-right, a digital movement of neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and white supremacists newly emboldened by the success of Trump’s rhetoric — as early as June 22, over a week before Trump’s team tweeted it.    

The watermark on the lower-left corner of the image leads to a Twitter account that regularly tweets violent, racist memes commenting on the state of geopolitical politics.  

No one should be surprised.

On MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Joy Reid, David Corn, and panel discussed the issue. Amy Kremer, head of the Women Vote Trump Super PAC, desperately tried to defend the GOP candidate.