Trump’s Pick to Lead U.S. Military Has Tattoos Linked to White Supremacists and Nazis

Trump, picking a Fox news host to run the military
"How could this be any worse?"
That motherfucker: takes off shirt
Narrator: "It got worse."
- Wait until he opens his mouth and starts talking
  
  Wait until he uses the military to do something even more nefarious than what they usually do around the world

I'm a gun nut. I have an AR-15 and love it. Finest multi-purpose rifle on Earth.
Forget the rest of the tats. Having a tattoo of an AR-15 is so goddamned toxic I want to puke. FWIW, I'd punch him for the Iron Cross tats before I noticed the others.
- Get an ak. Ar is jam city
  
  I have an AR it has never jammed. I also have an AK that has also never jammed.
  
  The M-16 is a jam factory, the M-4 was built to not do that. Slap any nato mag in that bad boy and pew pew
  
  Mine is cheap as hell and will cycle anything, including steel case ammo of dubious origin and quality. If you have one that is jamming, there might be a defect that requires your attention.

The entire cabinet is something from a comic book. These guys are all cartoonishly evil.
- It literally seems like he's just picking a mix of Republicans who are most notorious on social media and people who would make Putin the most happy, so you're not wrong but I don't think it's the actual criterion he's using.
- my theory is that this is all one big power move from trump, to show people what he can get away with. i don’t think he cares that much about the individual people he’s nominating, he more so cares about showing people that he can pick literally anyone he wants and no one will stop him.
- And Trump is bypassing all background checks by the FBI.

When does Russia invade to de-nazify the US?
(They already have, comrade. And your citizens voted it in)
Here's another question:
If Russia launched a nuke at the US, would puppet trump use the launch codes?
- Probably not because he would probably tell Putin to target a major Democratic city center
  
  Dearborn, MI would probably be high on the list.
  High Muslim population. Heavy Democratic leaning (except this year. Lol)
  One obvious one NYC, but he wouldn't want to hurt his property value.
  So, pretty much the entire pacific coast.
- The launch codes are 00000 anyway, so...
- more like that insane fuck would nuke some place as final middle finger before he dies to old age
- The reason republicans were able to take over is because liberals brains have been turned into soup
  look at this shit

Of course he does. These are all complete garbage human beings. Can't wait to hear the moronic defense of this is somehow not racist.
- “It’s all just a joke.”
  
  Who doesn't tattoo jokes onto their body?
- "It's going to be a maze."
  
  "As soon as I get my next check and pay off my payday loan and pill guy"

- I had to check if this was a bad freeze frame or what and nope she fires that hand out straight as a goddamn arrow and leaves it like that. She wasn’t caught mid-wave, just straight up doing the ol’ nazi salute.
  It’s wild that these people are using the same imagery as the nazis. You’d think that they’d have their own brand as most people aren’t knowingly the bad guys and the ones that are are generally smarter than that but they just can’t fuckin’ help larp as the poster children for worst thing the modern world has dealt with(though more recent times are making it look kinda normal).

If this person gets clearance and is not open about the hate group ties, that can be grounds for prosecution. The big question will be whether or not anyone cares.
- The big question will be whether or not anyone cares who has the ability to do anything about it.
  
  Yeah, I'm sure AG Gaetz will get right on that
- Oh, yeah, that will happen with Matt "baby-rapin'" Gaetz as AG. Hell it wouldn't happen with Milquetoast Merrick Garland because that would be "political".

Trump nominating a Literal Nazi to lead our Military is PROOF that DEMOCRATS were Overreacting!

Yeah, the news-media is salivating on all the clicks it's receiving right now.
Almost if it's benefiting them that Trump was elected. Hmm.
- Couldn't possibly be gaslighting the country about a mentally incapacitated incumbent until 2 months from the election
- Might as well make the most of it before they get censored lol.

"Trump Accountability War Room". Because suddenly presidential accountability is VERY important.
.....wait, what?
Also, using the term "war room" for everything. Peak USA.
- The war room was a joke in Dr. Strangelove, so of fucking course it became a real thing.
  
  It's important to me that y'all realize war rooms are a real thing, have been for centuries if not millennia, and weren't invented for movies or news.
- Well calling it a Revenge Room would have been too obvious.
- what’s the point of a room if you can’t have a war in it
- Just copied Alberta Canada. We have had a war room for years now. A war room can’t climate activists I think it is.
  
  Gotta admit, that's pretty damn cool, for Canada, anyway.
- If that's what you got out of his comment, maybe you should stick to the meme communities, then at least you can pretend your not understanding is just a bit you're doing.
  
  Yeah I think you missed my point there, scooter. I'm questioning the reasoning. As in, "after hundreds of years, you are saying that ONLY NOW do we need an "Office of Accountability"? Boggles my mind. Where was this 200 FUCKING YEARS AGO? Oh, "BUT ITS TRUMP, SOMEONE NEEDS TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIM" Holy fuck. Everyone is just
  So
  Stupid

Some of those that work forces...
- Some?
  
  Rage Against the Machine lyrics.
- The original lyric was:
  “Some of those that hold office are the same that burn crosses.”
- Starting to change from some to most to all.

You know what, I'm starting to think you guys really should start building that wall around you.

People shouldn’t fear governments. Governments should fear their people.
- I love this.
  
  V for Vendetta is going to absolutely melt your mind, as it should.

Are we surprised?
- No.

Allies kill Nazis, Allies have babies, babies become assholes, assholes have baby Nazis.

Probably why trump picked him

Reminds me of Putin and his buddy Dmitry Utkin, initial founder of the Wagner mercenary group with multiple tattoos that show the symbol of the Waffen-SS, as well as other Nazi symbols.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/28/who-was-dmitry-utkin-a-key-wagner-mercenary-who-died-alongside-prigozhin

he also doesn't believe in germ theory

So, Nazi Germany has returned.
- Mango Mussolini and his selections are identical to the worms Mao, Adolph, Joseph and Hideki chose. However, the Nazis were not religious in the traditional sense and they threw plenty Catholic and Protestant priests into their concentration camps. The ones who agreed, wore the cross next to the swastika.
- It's gonna be more like Nazi battle Royale. We got some major tribalism brewing here.

This is what USA actually is.
- Trump simply gave them permission to remove their masks. America is, and always has been, and always will be, a racist country founded on racist principles.

Miller and this guy. Two confirmed Nazis... this is going to end up great. /s

I found the documentary "Bad Faith" to be quite enlightening. Highly recommend it:
https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
Edit: For understanding more of the context of white christian nationalism, white supremacy, etc
- That makes sense. There's a reason that the 3 European counties who actaully choose fascism were the 3 most Christian: Germany Italy and Spain. No true Scotsman argument withstanding, well over 90% of people in nazi Germany were Christian, for example.
  Its not all Christians of course and I don't have any problem with the vast, vast majority of them but there are parts of the bible that can and have been very deliberately bastardised by people for centuries and others just read literally in a way that can be formed into something really horrible. I might not believe in God but I do agree with Christians when they say the Bible is a powerful book. However, like all powerful things, it can be and is being misused, per the book itself.
  
  One of the central points of the documentary is that Christian Nationalism isn't about Christianity. It's in direct violation of many of the central tenants of Christianity... not that that's stopped Christians before. But it's the perfect vessel to encapsulate a white supremacist power play.

No one should be surprised, this book was written 12 years ago:
"Irregular Army: How the US Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members, and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror"

Very dangerous and the US military will soon resemble the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, because of their insanity towards religion. God is not the the MAGATs.

Oh...right.

Of course they do.

putin claims to hate nazis. hmm.

so he'll fit right in

Confirmed: doesn't know his head from his toes

Donald's Eleven

So just like a lot of the military
- Actually the military aggressively weeds out and removes "out right" racist and those with extreme ideologies. Turns out having racist in your military units doesn't lead to a effective fighting force. Yes there are racist people in the military and it has always been a white male dominated institution. Do to the mixing of all walks of life (kind of like college.) I honestly believe if push comes to shove the military would back the people over Trump. That's been the true goal of the whole woke military hearings to Congress.
  
  Same goes for gang related tats. My sister had to explain that she was not in fact part of the Latin Kings for the crown on her shoulder, just a maid in a Mardi Gras crew.

Maybe he's just representing the Ukrainian azov unit.

Might be an unpopular comment, but I googled the Jerusalem cross and it appears to be more of a religious symbol than anything.
Saying he has tattoos linked with white nationalists is just sensationalism. And it has gotten the exact response in this thread that it wanted.
Edit:
For the pitchfork wielding lemmings, if you search for “Jerusalem cross” on ADL Hate Symbol Searcg, it returns ZERO results.
Hating on this guy because you misinterpreted a tattoo that he has only makes you and people like you look ridiculous. And when the next guy stands up and says actual hateful things, WE won’t have a voice because YOU wasted it on garbage news stories like this one.
- Might be an unpopular comment, but I googled the Swastika and it appears to be more of a religious symbol than anything.
  
  😂 Clearly you googled neither… literally every link for “swastika” mentions nazis. Google “Jerusalem cross” and the only posts you see related to white nationalism are Reddit posts with people asking if the symbol is related to white nationalism/nazis and nearly every comment saying it is not.
  Edit: so many downvotes from people that also put 0 effort into looking this up.
- Yes and the swastika is the symbol of well-being
  
  Not to detract from this guy likely yes being a massive nazi piece of shit-
  -but many deeply religious Polish Catholics who lived through WW2 and the atrocities, had (maybe still have, idk all my grandparents and aunties who did are now dead) Jerusalem crosses on their walls, usually displayed alongside their many JP2 pictures, crucifixes and black madonna's.
  Also not to say that many of these Polish Catholics weren't also massive racists, but I'm pretty sure the Jerusalem crosses they displayed were a Catholic thing for them rather than a white supremacy thing.
  
  Yes, and any cross is a symbol of white nationalism because they were used by the KKK.
  Not every symbol used by racist people is a symbol of racism. You gave the one most extreme example where a symbol was co-opted and can never mean anything else again.
- They might mean other tattoos, he seems to have a collection.
  It still makes him a religious weirdo, possibly with a bizarre crusade fetish. Not a great look.
  
  The article specifically mentioned that tattoo and no other ones… I’m not saying this dude is qualified for the job. There’s probably tons of legit reasons to hate this pick.
  This article is just rage bate, though. And judging by this thread it is a successful one.
- I am looking at other photos. I can also see "Ne Desit Virtus" (Let Valor Not Fail) with a sword. That's a symbol from the 187th Infantry Regiment. I also see the Chi Rho symbol, a Greek symbol for the name of Christ. Another tattoo is "MDCCLXXV" for 1775. Above that tattoo is an American Flag with a gun superimposed on it. I am not sure if these mean a recalling of the US War for Independence. The gun looks modern but could also serve as a bridge to the modern military of the US. On his other arm is "Deus Vult."
  Broadly speaking, these tattoos suggest both military service and Christian identity.
  Not found are any symbols I've seen identified with White Nationalism. No Valknot, swastika, black sun, 88 symbol, Confederate symbolism, etc.
  Edit: The photo I was looking at is here: [https://i.imgur.com/kkroDES.png].
  
  Deus Vult has indeed been co-opted by white supremacists along with a lot of crusader/christian symbolism.
  
  Dude is definitely a nut, but when we start throwing around terms like “white nationalists” for things that are absolutely not white nationalism, it dilutes the impact of claims about people who legitimately are white nationalists.
  
  Only USAians will see somebody with a flag tattoo and not think "this is fascist scum".
  
  https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/ Christo-fascists can hate just like Nazis can.
- It's been coopted by the far right for a while now. Pete is not a Polish Babushka, the symbol has a different meaning to him, here’s specific reference to the Jerusalem Cross amd deus vult here. https://www.mccaininstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/white-supremacy-and-anti-government-groups-read-ahead-materials.pdf
  White supremacist anti-Muslim narratives generally refer to Islam as an invading force that isn't just incompatible with Western society, but is also an active threat to Western society and cultural norms. In this context, white supremacists have used Crusader-themed imagery and rhetoric, like the Jerusalem Cross, the Knights Templar and "Deus Vult," as dog whistles to promote anti-Muslim hate
- It’s also used fairly prominently in the episcopal church in the USA, I grew up with that symbol and it had nothing to do with white nationalism / christofascism
  Deus Vult added to his collection does add some awfully strong attribution to them being the dog whistles I bet they are.

And Biden's senile ass is still going to hand over power.
- As opposed to? Doing the thing we screamed about MAGAs doing? People expect a lot out of Biden here, which is funny since so many people couldn't get off their asses and vote to prevent this from happening.
  
  If I understood the supreme Court right, one legal option would be to kill them all officially... /s
  
  Use the office to make convicted felons (in relation to fraud or truthfulness) unable to hold higher office which is the law for most state governments but quizzically not the highest office.
  
  Exactly. America has done this to itself. We absolutely deserve whatever happens at this point.
- That's not how any of this works.
  
  Lol, liberals.

The Iron Cross goes all the way back to the state of Prussia. Long before the Nazi's. There are probably so many reason to criticize this guy that will cause productive conversation that can be used to have a better informed voting class. Just screaming racist because of tattoo is just silly and makes no one take you seriously.
- I'm sorry what?!
  That level of disingenuous knot tying is utterly baffling.
  You know damn well that after WW2, all of those symbols ostensibly became inextricably linked with the Nazi party. Its the same reason a Swastika no longer automatically conjures images of Hindu and Buddhist peace.
  Pretending that its possible that this idiot is somehow repping his pride of Wilhelm II and the glorious Prussian history is so unbelievably intellectually dishonest that it actually somehow manages to be even worse than being flat out racist.
  At least Racists are honest. This...whatever this idiotic attempt at obsfucation was that you just shat into our lives is just pedantry that even racists would mock you for.
  
  good god thank you I couldn't find the words
  
  Just keep calling everyone Nazi. See how much it helps. Backing people into a corner and forcing this label onto them is only going to make them adapt the label and become the very thing you hate.
  76 million people voted for Trump. Calling them names is not going to move the needle. Like what do you expect you call them Nazi and then they beg for forgiveness and then go read a Bernie Sanders book?
- I think it’s more the point of do you believe that this person who has the tattoos has them because of the possible history before the Nazis and what it represented or because the Nazis co-opted the symbol for their purposes and he’s representing their ideals.
  While it may be true that there are other reasons to also criticize, I believe those who think the latter would take it seriously. I have more trouble believing someone in this day and age has the tattoos to represent the historical aspect of the symbol.
  
  I believe screaming racist has been over used at this point and no listens. Especially since Trump carried so much of the minority vote. Yes this may resonate with the left. But just shut you out. Same when the Republicans scream communist. No one takes that seriously.
  All I have learned from this thread is this guy has an Iron Cross tattoo and some people view that as racist.
- The 4th what bud?