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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCorey Lewandowski flashes white power 'OK' symbol on stage at Trump's Michigan rally
Source: Raw Story
Corey Lewandowski, who was campaign manger for Donald Trump in 2016 until being fired for being charged with battery after he grabbed a female reporter, joined Donald Trump on stage in Michigan Saturday night.
Lewandowski briefly took the microphone, and confusedly introduced Trump as the next president of the United States.
But not before he appeared to flash the OK symbol, as captured by Fox News cameras which had a wide-view shot at the time.
The OK symbol is widely used by white supremacists like Richard Spencer, though alt-right types like Stephen Miller and random interns also use it.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/corey-lewandowski-flashes-white-power-ok-symbol-stage-trumps-michigan-rally/
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)1. To put white people back into total control
and 2. Give it all to the rich elites and
lastly 3. To make us into Alabama.
Snarkoleptic
(6,002 posts)in the background, is the most 'Trump' thing ever.
The entire pResidency is built atop a mountain of BS.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)BOTH hands making the gesture. Just in your face.
Racist fuck.
Hurry Bob Mueller. "Indictment Monday" has a nice ring to it.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)For some reason. I don't know why.
Spuds wasn't a nazi, just a beer drinking canine.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Gang Sign for KGOPee republican A-holes* Notice how closely the gesture mimics a freaking ANAL SPHINCTER. When a-holes want other a-holes to snorg their fragile snowflake egos, they flash the right-wing republican A-hole Gang Sign, and they can all a-hole together.
* under the demonic & deplorable dimspiration of Dirty Donny, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, and Bigliest Sphincter.
GeorgeHayduke
(1,227 posts)Yeah, his pathetic use of hands in lieu of meaningful words has always disturbed me, but his mouth consistently is such a physical asshole metaphor that I am compelled to avert my eyes.
Just seeing that photo inspires olfactory hallucinations of mowing piles of dogshit.
kacekwl
(7,025 posts)Blacks for Trump shirt feels. I hope he got paid well.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)That's one of Trump's favorite dog whistles to his racist white power base.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)When I met an American kid who was from Virginia and was living in PR at the time (we were in 8th grade). He had friends involved in that stuff back home, and he did that symbol with his hand and said to me "this is how they greet each other".
Igel
(35,383 posts)It's lurking everywhere. Eternal vigilance is required, because who knows? It might be your neighbor whose caught up in this.
As I heard a civil rights activist this morning say, all of these groups should be heavily monitored by the government and information kept on them. Infiltration shouldn't be ruled out.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)by most of us here for...HOW long? Lewandowski's 44 years old (just looked), which means he'll have been raised with it meaning okay, versus the like relative 2 weeks a small subgroup's been using it as a hate sign. This hate meaning is not part of the popular culture, as evidenced by someone feeling the need to explain it right here on this thread.
Minds open to all possibilities, recognizing that the most likely is the most likely. We're not damned deplorables.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Are we going to let the alt-right steal every symbol of culture and turn it into a white power thing? I seriously think this is their goal as a way to make everything verboten.