US President Trump courts most Trump-like row; election symbol mirrors Hitler's Nazi party

Donald Trump‘s new re-election campaign logo 'America First' is facing a heavy backlash all over social media as it has a resemblance to the Nazi eagle symbol. The netizens slammed the US president for recreating a logo that looked like the older version of Adolf Hitler's logo.

The campaign logo, found on T-shirts sold through the Trump campaign website, shows a stylized eagle grasping a circle containing the American flag. The eagle has its wings spread and its head turned to show its profile with a message that reads "America First".

The Nazi symbol depicted an eagle clutching a circle containing a swastika. The Trump and Nazi symbols portray the eagle in the same perched spread-wing pose, the Twitter critics observed.

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The Twitteratis shared the photos of the new apparel, by making a collage of the Trump logo and the Nazi eagle, and described it as a 'hate symbol.' A user said, "Why’s Trump’s new logo Hitler’s old logo?". "Another MAGA lunatic. Speaking of white supremacists, here is trump’s new logo riffing off Nazi symbolism. I assume little Stevie Miller was involved with that one." said another user.

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. It’s not an accident. Bigotry is their entire brand, Bend the Arc, a U.S. Jewish political action committee, tweeted on Wednesday. 

Meanwhile, Zach Parkinson, the campaign’s deputy director of communications, described the comparison as “so stupid” in a separate tweet. Parkinson also included several photos of official U.S. seals that portray eagles holding various objects in their claws.

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Twitter removes image tweeted by Trump

Microblogging site Twitter has removed an image tweeted by President Donald Trump for violating the company’s copyright policy. Trump’s tweet showed a picture taken by Damon Winter for the New York Times in 2015. However, the president had turned it into a meme with a caption that read as “In reality they’re not after me they’re after you.” and the bottom of he wrote, “I’m just in the way”.  The tweet now just shows a “media not displayed” notice after Twitter removed the picture.

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