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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo that white power hand gesture we've been seeing in Charlottesville coverage...
Has anyone with the stomach to sit through the entire Trump presser thought to count the number of times Trump flashed that sign, and the particular parts of the speech during which he did? I caught it during we condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence" and it raised a question. If he's flashing a sign for white supremacists, is it just a 'go team' kind of thing, or does it have a specific meaning for an occasion. Perhaps in this case, "I don't actually mean this part".
Because if so, the first passage to which I saw him apply it, "I wanna know the facts" seems even more curious.
I cannot believe we are at a point where I have to consider whether my president is literally throwing up signs as covert communication.
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)I noticed that, having seen photos of several of the attendees in Charlottesville flashing it, and it just made me wonder...
radical noodle
(8,003 posts)Here's the article I found. I too thought that it was a white supremacist hand sign.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/12/what-ok-hand-signal-means-militia-movement
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Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)Reminds me of the old comic strip when "Mandrake gestures hypnotically".
woodsprite
(11,916 posts)I believe, since his campaign started. I always thought it looked like a toddler trying to play tea. Again,look at what they do, not what they say. Are there vids on YouTube from BT (before Trump) that show them using it?