The Logo On Trump's "America First Tee" Looks A Lot Like A Nazi Emblem
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that Trump’s campaign has promoted imagery rooted in anti-Semitism.
By Johanna Silver
Published on 7/2/2020
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign is selling a T-shirt with a logo that many have condemned for its striking resemblance to Nazi imagery.
The “America First Tee” is available for $30 on the apparel section of Trump’s re-election campaign website, along with the description “Show your support for re-electing President Donald J. Trump! Let everyone know who you are voting for in 2020.”
“We finally have a President that puts AMERICA first,” the description continues.
Many people and groups, including a progressive Jewish organization and The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican PAC, were quick to flag the shirt’s logo. The imagery features an eagle with outspread wings holding a circular American flag in its talons, baring a stark resemblance to the national insignia of Nazi Germany.
The President of the United States is campaigning for reelection with a Nazi symbol. Again.
On the left: an official Trump/Pence “America First” tee.
On the right; the Iron Eagle, the official symbol of the Nazi party.
⁰It’s not an accident. Bigotry is their entire brand. pic.twitter.com/mSOBxwf7Wa— Bend the Arc: Jewish Action (@jewishaction) July 1, 2020
”America First” as a phrase has its roots in 1920s Klan history, but also in a 1930s pro-Nazi movement in America promoted by Charles Lindbergh.
Trump’s website is selling a tee shirt with the phrase on a graphic disturbingly similar to a Nazi symbol. pic.twitter.com/LCIZLeMLqk— Man With a Dog In the City (@meerkatrodeo) July 2, 2020
Come. On. pic.twitter.com/VtfgrM8hIW— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 2, 2020
This isn’t the first time in recent weeks that Trump’s campaign has promoted imagery rooted in anti-Semitism.
In June 2020, Facebook deactivated dozens of ads from President Trump’s reelection campaign against antifa and “far-left groups," that included a symbol that Nazis used in concentration camps to designate political prisoners.
Trump campaign runs ads with marking once used by Nazis to designate political prisoners via @isaacstanbecker https://t.co/iJDJidG2dD— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) June 18, 2020
In May, President Trump praised prominent anti-Semite Henry Ford for his “good bloodlines” during a visit to a Ford motor plant in Michigan, which many Jewish groups immediately condemned.
Trump has a history of making anti-Semitic remarks himself, as well as comments about eugenics. He infamously praised neo-Nazi protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 as “very fine people,” discussing a “Unite the Right” rally in which a young woman named Heather Heyer was killed when a driver purposely plowed into a group of counter-protesters.
Other items for sale in Trump’s campaign shop include a “Defend The Police” T-shirt. A graphic on the shirt crosses out the word “defund,” which protesters across America have chanted in the streets in recent months. Another shirt bares the text “#YouAintBlack - Joe Biden,” referencing presumptive Democratic rival Biden’s comments in May to Charlamagne tha God about voting for him versus Trump on radio show “The Breakfast Club.” Biden later apologized for the remarks.
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