Trump Campaign Blames Nazi Twitter Ad On Scapetern

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Republican presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump on Tuesday learned a fundamental lesson of campaigning: beware of stock images.

This image was posted to Trump’s prolific Twitter account on Tuesday afternoon:

It was swiftly deleted after Twitter users pointed out that the soldiers pictured in the lower right hand corner of the image were wearing the uniform of the Waffen-SS, the military wing of Nazi Germany’s Schutzstaffel, or SS:

An executive vice president with the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, later told CNN that an intern accidentally posted the photo.

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  1. Oh Trump, you shouldn’t feel too bad. After all, it wasn’t until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that many rich Conservatives gave up on their love of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Speak to Jeb Bush about how his grandfather adored Hitler. The Rockefellers loved Nazi Germany. Heck, if it wasn’t for Germany’s decision to declare war on the US after we attacked Japan in retaliation for Pearl Harbor they would have pushed and pushed not to have us get involved in Europe.

    You’re just keeping tradition alive.

  2. It was an honest mistake!

    Yeah… that’s the ticket!

  3. Schadenfreude… pure, unadulterated schadenfreude

    Go Trump Go! Fight Trump Fight!

  4. Why would there even be US soldiers in a ‘back into business’ ad anyway? Very odd.

  5. The agency that did this has no QA as I saw crap like this go by all the time and put an end to as fast I could. I even had designers try and defend their use of stock Nazi soldier images as “it fit better with the clients campaign.”

    Remember this was “posted by an intern,” not made by one.

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