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Trump intern flashes 'alt-right' symbol used by notorious extremists during group photo with the president[img][/img]
A former White House intern is coming under fire after flashing a known 'white power' sign during a photo-op with President Donald Trump.
Jack Breuer, who graduated from Emory University in Atlanta this year, is clearly bucking orders personally given by the president to give a thumbs-up in the picture that was taken in the White House in November.
While the other hundred or so interns smile and follow Trump's command, Breuer, a dentist's son who grew up in Chicago's western suburbs, stands stony-faced giving the 'OK' sign that has been linked with far-right groups.
It is the same sign that white nationalist Richard Spencer gave on the steps of the Trump International Hotel on election night and that right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos posed with in front of the White House.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5216137/White-House-intern-flashes-white-power-sign-Trump.html#ixzz52aktSQIG
handmade34
(22,759 posts)is wrong with all those relatively normal looking people that they would allow themselves to work with DT...?
lapfog_1
(29,232 posts)The guy in the middle back row showing his right hand palm out is the nazi asshole.
The three non index digits form a "W" and the index/thumb closed as in "OK" also make a "p" (extended to the palm).
"Wp" or "White Power".
EL34x4
(2,003 posts)lapfog_1
(29,232 posts)has NOT been adopted as a nazi/racist WP symbol.
Maybe it started out as a trolling effort... but maybe they trolled themselves
ornotna
(10,807 posts)So yeah, it is a white power sign. You think Richard Spencer is a 4chaner?
ClarendonDem
(720 posts)Is that it isn't shocking at all. This is what Trump supporters do.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I would kick my grown kids ass if any of them did that crap. Genetics is just a lucky or unlucky draw, you didn't do a damn thing to deserve any special treatment.
samnsara
(17,651 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,315 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)All those folks just coincidentally clustered together.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Trump uses the same gesture every time he speaks.
doc03
(35,395 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 28, 2017, 11:30 PM - Edit history (1)
think it is just by accident.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Trump has morphed through the years into a self created Reality TV Star. Tom Burrdett's Creation.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)He doesn't know he does it...
It's a tell.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)exactly what he is messaging. He has practiced and maintain a certain Stage Image his whole life.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)fluke in our Constitution. Sad to say,he has zero clue what a President of the USA means. He just continues to be a self created Buffoon that is suffering some serious mental health issues.
Scary thought is,Nuke Codes,when will he go completely off the rails,the next ninety days are going to be one hell of spot in our Nations History.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Every last fucking one of them, from David Koch to the Secretary on my townhouse HOA Board.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)deal with a Koch. That is a smell that never goes away. And as far as the Rethugs go,hunch says,some of these people will need mega lawyers to keep them out of Prison.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)It's like he's saying, "Here ya go, this is what the country has been allowed to come to". If people in paintings could shake their heads...
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Thank you for that, Father of our Country. We might not have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out!
tanyev
(42,642 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)certain things that happened recently that I cant mention
NAZI'S occupy our White House and they are ACTIVELY trying to KILL us.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)It's a way of letting other KGOP a-holes know that you are a KGOP a-hole in mewling, hate-drenched, subby service to Comrade Casino, the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and the Bigliest republican A-hole of all.
Sanity Claws
(21,862 posts)go well with the nazi symbol.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)"Can you believe these assholes?"
TeamPooka
(24,273 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,469 posts)nolabear
(42,001 posts)In the midst of a bunch of smiling thumb-flashing interns he stares straight into the camera with a tight jaw and slit eyes. I don't know what it means but it sure isn't friendly. If someone was looking at me that way and flashing a sign I'd be pretty sure that sign wasn't "Howdy Neighbor!"
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)[img][/img]
nolabear
(42,001 posts)LisaM
(27,846 posts)And as if he's about to burst into, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" from Cabaret.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)And I don't know if I agree that this isn't a White Power signal -- though it may be HALF of the WP symbol. Miller's was the OK plus 3 fingers extended (for the W) of his other hand).
Golden Raisin
(4,614 posts)into a Stephen Miller. The same dead eyes and general look of a stone-cold killer.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Look at those thumbs..
They look more like they are hitch hiking...
Takket
(21,650 posts)"Can you believe this fuck wit? Look at him!"
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Well done DU...
Siwsan
(26,308 posts)Are you calling ME a troll?
linuxman
(2,337 posts)Siwsan
(26,308 posts)Just like I have no idea what a "mark" is.