Donald Trump isn’t having the best night at the GOP caucuses, having lost Kansas to Ted Cruz by a large margin, and with early returns from Maine heading a similar direction. In any case, Trump’s focus today was on Florida, where both he and Marco Rubio held campaign rallies. It’s bad enough that the Ku Klux Klan, along with David Duke’s endorsement of Trump, dominated headlines in 2016. But when Trump asked supporters to raise their right hands and pledge to vote, the result was an image news photographers dream of.
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/706227142405726208
Trump supporters raise right hands to pledge their support. The photos are terrifying. https://t.co/GaP4JFoQje pic.twitter.com/I6wwI1NlvQ
— Slate (@Slate) March 5, 2016
Terrifying? Slate will be Slate, after all. Sure, it might be terrifying after Trump’s rivals drop out the audio and use a slow-motion, black-and-white version in TV ads, but “creepy” seemed to be the word of choice to describe what actually ensued.
Trump rally in Florida. He asked people to swear they would vote for him. This photo ensued. pic.twitter.com/dE18AJLIEv
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 5, 2016
Trump has Orlando voters raise their hand and swear a pledge to vote for him. #creepy
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) March 5, 2016
CREEPY: Trump makes supporters raise right hand at rally and PLEDGE to vote in primary!! https://t.co/DEXC3AdhiV pic.twitter.com/LcWqQytjvi
— ⚡️ Right Scoop ⚡️ (@trscoop) March 5, 2016
Creepy Video: Trump Has Supporters Raise Right Hand And PLEDGE To Him At Rally https://t.co/dFz3TWjGLD
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) March 5, 2016
It's Official; You May Now Compare Trump to Hitler.
Trump Has Supporters Raise Right Hand, Pledge Vote to Him.https://t.co/tX7vIcyjRa?
— NealWiser (@NealWiser) March 6, 2016
@jpodhoretz "Trump isn't…awwww dammit."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 5, 2016
@TheRickWilson @jpodhoretz Godwin's Law is official suspended until the end of the campaign.
— James Wigderson (@jwigderson) March 5, 2016
Here’s video of the pledge, along with a transcript.
WATCH: @realDonaldTrump asks Florida supporters to raise their hands and pledge to vote for him: https://t.co/MFsz1NdhwJ
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/706273079996116992
Watching Trump getting his crowd to take a "pledge" with right hands raised. Seig Heil Donald. Surely he knows the imagery. My lord
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) March 5, 2016
@jpodhoretz Tweet that to @reince every hour on the hour, that shit is fucking terrifying
— Tara Dublin Needs A Literary Agent (@taradublinrocks) March 5, 2016
The 'Heil Trump' pledge is out of the playbook of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. Amercia is truly mirroring 1930s Germany.
— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) March 5, 2016
@jpodhoretz Hmm,I think I've seen that pic before,from a different angle…Now where was that?…Oh yeah,here it is pic.twitter.com/5gBdHdxOZe
— Jannicke✌?☝? (@JannickesArt) March 5, 2016
Imagine the conservative media outrage if Obama had made his followers raise their hands and publicly pledge their loyalty. #trump
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) March 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/ColleenMary98/status/706283632198098944
If you’re a liberal, it could be that everything short of a pile of handmade Bernie Sanders dolls tends to remind you of Hitler.
My response to anyone telling me the Trump pledge was a joke. He had to know what that was going to look like! pic.twitter.com/aQzcJ1jsPR
— Erik Veenhuis (@erikveenhuis) March 6, 2016
@wpjenna He's trolling the entire world. All a big joke. Has to be.
— Austin Barker (@AustinBarker) March 5, 2016
@jpodhoretz terrible, terrible idea
— Andrea Manea (@andrea_manea) March 5, 2016
Here’s some free advice for Gov. John Kasich — you might want to learn not to wave like that with still cameras around (and a giant hand on your crotch as a bonus).
NEW POLL: Kasich pulls ahead of Trump in Michigan https://t.co/XV2YVx28pN pic.twitter.com/UJlverg33I
— The Hill (@thehill) March 5, 2016
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