Published 12:11 IST, July 3rd 2020

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.

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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 Nazi eagle symbol. netizens slammed US president for recreating a logo that looked like older version of Adolf Hitler's logo.

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

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

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Twitteratis shared photos of new apparel, by making a coll of Trump logo and Nazi eagle, and described it as a 'hate symbol.' A user said, "Why’s Trump’s new logo Hitler’s old logo?". "Ar 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 ar user.

President of United States is campaigning for reelection with a Nazi symbol. Again. On left: an official Trump/Pence “America First” tee. On right; Iron Eagle, official symbol of Nazi party. It’s t an accident. Bigotry is ir entire brand, Bend Arc, a U.S. Jewish political action committee, tweeted on Wednesday. 

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Meanwhile, Zach Parkinson, campaign’s deputy director of communications, described 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 ir claws.

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Twitter removes im tweeted by Trump

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

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12:11 IST, July 3rd 2020