Donald Trump retweets man calling him a fascist

[herding cats]

Source: The Independent

Donald Trump has retweeted a man calling him a "fascist".


In a seemingly inexplicable move, the US President shared a post by a Twitter user called Mike Holden, who was responding to a Fox News post.

The right-wing news outlet had tweeted a link to a story about Mr Trump "seriously considering" a pardon to former Sherrif Joe Arpaio - who was recently found guilty of criminal contempt for defying a state judge’s order to stop traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants.

Having retweeted the initial Fox News post, he did the same with Mr Holden's reply to it, saying: "He's a fascist, so not unusual."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-fascist-retweet-twitter-mike-holden-president-nazi-white-supremacist-latest-a7894131.html

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What a morning for Trump tweets. At least this one ended up being humorous against him.

[David__77]

1. This is not at all inexplicable to me.

He is calling himself a fascist. This is messaging aimed at his core white supremacist support. This is "damage control" to ensure the fascists know that he is on their side.

[herding cats]

2. That's possible.

To be fair there's literally 1000's of replies to him a day calling him a fascist that make the point less obliquely. I bet some of his followers were at least slightly confused as to just who the fascist was when they saw the retweet.

[David__77]

6. Do you not think he's admitting to being a fascist with this retweet?

It seems totally clear to me.

[herding cats]

8. Oh, I'm sure.

I'm also sure many of his followers who read it weren't. Which was by design on his part. Not all of his supporters are pro fascism after all.

[SweetieD]

5. I agree. Trump or whoever retweeted that meant it literally. We try to normalize this evil

because many of can't believe the worst. The alt right have proudly called themselves pro fascist literally not ironically. They support fascism.

[LanternWaste]

13. Until you proffered this possibility, I presumed it was oversight on his part.

Until you proffered this possibility, I presumed the only real possibility was oversight on his part.

Now that it's suggested... well, maybe it really is a simple way to tell his base "guys, really... I'm one of you."

Damn.

[L. Coyote]

3. Easy to explain, he needs to be removed from office for being unable to do his job.

Offer him two options:




After he picks one, give him both!

[herding cats]

4. Exactly!!!

[LudwigPastorius]

7. Looks like Trump had too much covfefe this morning.

Too bad. I was hoping he'd finally had a psychotic break.

[riversedge]

9. Holden added his own update............

Link to tweet

[riversedge]

10. ha ha. take a look at Holden's twitter header..............

https://twitter.com/MikeHolden42

[IronLionZion]

11. So he admits it

or is too incompetent to continue his presidency and must be removed immediately

[brooklynite]

12. "Any publicity is good as long as they spell your name right"

[LanternWaste]

14. the publicity Takata's airbags received was a a shot in the arm for its shareholders.

Yeah... Deepwater Horizon was often spelled correctly in 2010 and that was a PR coup for British Petroleum. And no doubt, the publicity Takata's airbags received was definitely a financial shot in the arm for its shareholders.