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Airman accused of spreading white-nationalist propaganda is demoted but remains in military

For years, Cory Reeves allegedly posted hundreds of messages on a secret online forum for white supremacists under a pseudonym. In now-public posts, Reeves appeared to swap workout routines and diet tips with his like-minded internet friends; he also appeared to paper his town with far-right propaganda, participate in white-nationalist group meetups and share racist memes.

All the while, the Air Force master sergeant kept his apparent role in the white-nationalist group Identity Evropa quiet as he served in the military in Colorado Springs.

But in March, anti-fascist activists in Colorado used a massive leak of chat logs to identify the airman. The chat logs, from now-defunct Discord servers, revealed how Reeves had allegedly spent his spare time spreading white-nationalist propaganda and socializing with other members of a group then known as Identity Evropa. The Air Force Times reported in April that the military branch launched an investigation into Reeves' alleged white-nationalist ties. In August, the Denver Post noted the airman was still serving at his master sergeant rank despite the 729 Discord posts, written between October 2017 and March 2019, that appeared to lay out his white-nationalist sympathies.

The investigation recently came to a head when the Air Force demoted Reeves in September but officially allowed him to remain on active duty despite hundreds of online posts linking him to a white-nationalist group. The Air Force Times first reported Reeves' fate last week.

"The Air Force has completed its investigation," Lynn Kirby, a spokeswoman for the Air Force, told The Washington Post in an email late Tuesday. "Racism, bigotry, hatred, and discrimination have no place in the Air Force. We are committed to maintaining a culture where all Airmen feel welcome and can thrive."

The episode highlights a growing concern about active-duty military and veterans joining the ranks of white-supremacist organizations. The leaked Discord chat logs, published by the nonprofit media collective Unicorn Riot in March, led journalists and activists to expose members of the Air Force, Army and Marine Corps as members of Identity Evropa, which has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In his alleged Discord posts, Reeves discouraged people from using slurs and violent language, not because he opposed it but because he wanted to keep the Identity Evropa server "more refined." Under the username "Argument of Perigee," a reference to the orbit of satellites, Reeves posted photos of himself at Identity Evropa events, with a distinctive, often visible tattoo on his left forearm.

He claimed to be the only Identity Evropa member in Hawaii for four years while stationed there, before he moved to Colorado Springs to work at nearby Schriever Air Force Base. There, he joined forces with a more active chapter of the group, plastering parks with teal stickers branded with the group's recognizable dragon's eye symbol. Reeves held up Identity Evropa banners and signs in front of an immigrant detention center run by the contractor the GEO Group, according to photos posted to the Discord server. He railed against interracial marriage and shared memes of Pepe the Frog, a meme used as a hate symbol by the alt-right.

Reeves repeatedly referenced an "ethnostate" in the his alleged posts. He also appeared to mock people in interracial relationships, including his own family members: "We have little-to-no control over our family members," one post read. "My younger brother reproduced with a full blood Aztec...."

"Respectable, upstanding men of Evropean heritage shouldn't be engaging in sexual relations with women of other heritage," another post said.

Less than six months after he was publicly linked to the Discord posts, the Air Force stripped Reeves of his rank, reducing him to a technical sergeant and dropping him from his status as a senior non-commissioned officer. But his commander decided to keep Reeves in the Air Force, despite posts that showed him making racist comments and recruiting for a white-nationalist organization so toxic it had to rebrand when its secret message boards were outed, taking on the name American Identity Movement.

White-supremacist and extremist groups have long targeted military service members and veterans. In 2008, the FBI published a report warning about the tendency for white-supremacist groups to recruit active members of the military and veterans, often placing people with combat experience in leadership roles. The leader of Vanguard America, which the Anti-Defamation League identifies as a white-supremacist group, was a recruiter for the Marine Corps. A self-avowed white nationalist, Christopher Hasson, 50, a Coast Guard lieutenant and Marine veteran, allegedly plotted a mass terrorist attack this year to "establish a white homeland." Colorado ranks among the top states for white-supremacist propaganda, the Denver Post reported in March.

The Air Force, like each branch of the military, has an explicit policy banning its members from promoting white-supremacist groups.

"Air Force military personnel are prohibited from actively advocating supremacist, extremist, or criminal gang doctrine, ideology, or causes," the branch's instruction manual says. "Members who actively participate in such groups or activities are subject to adverse action."

Kirby told The Post that Air Force commanders have several disciplinary actions to choose from when an airman is found to violate that policy.

"When Airmen fall short of this expectation, they are held accountable," she said in an email. "Each case is evaluated based on the facts presented, and commanders have a variety of administrative and/or disciplinary actions they can administer based on the findings of the case."

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The San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus has always been profoundly political. Founded in 1978, the 300-strong group, widely regarded as launching the gay choral movement, had its first public performance at city hall after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk.

After four decades of concerts, social acceptance of LGBTQ people grew, but the 2016 presidential election left its leadership and members reeling. Singing for Our Lives was the song they performed after the death of Americas first openly gay public official, and its lyrics seemed alarmingly pertinent once again, so the chorus teamed up with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir on a 2017 Lavender Pen tour through the region that had embraced Trumpism most fully.

David Charles Rodriguess documentary Gay Chorus Deep South follows the two groups through states such as Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina. A redemptive tale that bridges cultural divides in the wake of the 2016 election, the film follows several narrative arcs to establish that misunderstandings existed on both sides.

To its credit, Gay Chorus Deep South doesnt recycle tired tropes from George W Bush-era cultural liberalism. This is a project in search of rapprochement, from winning over homophobic hearts one by one to marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in a gesture of intersectional solidarity.

Anchoring the film is Tim Seelig, SFGMCs director, who has his own history with the south. An active Southern Baptist and megachurch chorus director in Houston, he eventually came out as a gay man in his 30s. The denominations hierarchy took swift action, and he quickly lost his family and job, later relocating to Dallas. Even decades later, Seelig admits: I hate the church for the things they did to my family. Gay Chorus Deep South quietly insists that social progress requires individual action as well as structural change, and the film is in no small part Seeligs attempt at both. He eventually reconciled with both his son and daughter, he said, but only after his son changed his name to avoid any association with his father, by then a well-known figure in Dallas.

I would say estranged is a mild word for what we were for seven or eight years, Seelig says, adding that it was his sons future wife who urged the reconnection. Hes living his life and hes a wonderful man and a wonderful father. I think hes fantastic.

While this resolution isnt depicted in the film itself, sweet moments abound. During one performance, a chorus members staunchly antigay father cant help but smile at a drag queen singing Patsy Clines Shes Got You and pulling various relationship mementoes out of her cleavage then a flask, then a handsaw. A straight-up gooey, tender moment involves a childhood friend of a chorus member giving him a quilt shed sewn. Her politics are implied to be to the right of his, but she uses the idea of a quilt as a metaphor for strength in unity.

For director Rodrigues, a particularly emotional speech the otherwise unflappable Seelig delivers at one performance was a cathartic moment for Tim and for me.

I was so entrenched with him that I felt all the emotions that were going through him, Rodrigues says, adding that he also started to cry: I was afraid I was going to short-circuit the monitor.

Gay Chorus Deep South is full of It Gets Better-esque encouragement, especially as many of the venues were chosen because they are in states with brazenly anti-LGBTQ laws, Mississippi and North Carolina in particular. You have to be who you needed when you were 14, one chorus member says.

The catalyst for all this, it turns out, is the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. A smaller and not particularly religious institution whose membership is approximately one-third LGBTQ-identified, the choir joined SFGMC on many of its dates, and its inclusion was vital.

In the south, you dont make change except through the church, the chair of the SFGMC says in the film.

Throughout the tour, fans record testimonials attesting to the power of music to overcome injustice. At several stops, the combined ensembles meet with organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union and student groups at various colleges.

Narrative tension remains constant throughout, between winning over individual hearts and minds and bringing about structural change, between the need to entertain and be hospitable versus the insufficiency of mere tolerance. It all leads up to a concert at a Southern Baptist church Seeligs first time inside one in decades. The performance is meant to sprinkle water on some pretty dry land, as he puts it, which could refer to his own religious roots or to states where its perfectly legal to fire someone for being a lesbian.

From a production standpoint, the operation was smoothly oiled from the start. But not everyone in the 300-member group relished the idea of performing in a region that had voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. No one refused outright, Seelig says, but several people feared for their personal safety.

Ashl Blow, an African American member who came out as trans, was particularly apprehensive.

We were all terrified it was going to be this dangerous situation, and on some level we were disappointed because we came emotionally armed and prepared to fight back or whatever, and there wasnt any of that, Blow says. It taught us a lesson to not make assumptions, because we were doing the same thing that we feel the south does to us.

In one scene, Blow and another chorister eat with a family so devout that they eschew musical instruments during worship, because they arent found in the New Testament. It was a five-hour meal, and people speak haltingly, hoping to find common ground that goes beyond icy tolerance.

There are, of course, unpleasant moments of open hatred, as when the choruss leadership stands around listening to a voicemail calling them Gomorrah-ites and a bunch of perverts. And protesters, some of them so called ex-gays, show up from time to time. But occasions when Seelig was all but spoiling for a fight, as with an appearance on an alt-right radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee, turn into surprise love-fests. Still, at least two churches reject outright the idea of a performance.

In spite of its increasingly cosmopolitan cities, the American south retains its reputation for discrimination rooted in religiosity. This makes the region either an unlikely or ideal spot for a showdown over what have long been known as San Francisco values. And Gay Chorus Deep South doesnt shy away from interrogating the choruss own assumptions, either.

In a particularly tense scene, Josh Burford, a historian who works on LGBTQ experiences in the American south, calls the idea of a prominent national organization doing a goodwill tour white paternalist and condescending. Indeed, some of the young people the chorus members push back against the idea that if youre queer and in the south, youre not OK. But the films strength lies in articulating the need to move beyond mere civility, that spongy virtue that can permit injustice to continue by prioritizing the need to superficially get along. In a place where acceptance is far from universal, it seeks to make the LGBTQ community part of the community.

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Simone Vaughn holds a plaque dedicated to the winners of the Sims Public Speaking Competition. Vaughn won the 2019 contest. (Photo provided/SVSU)

Simone Vaughn holds a plaque dedicated to the winners of the Sims Public Speaking Competition. Vaughn won the 2019 contest. (Photo provided/SVSU)

Simone Vaughn holds a plaque dedicated to the winners of the Sims Public Speaking Competition. Vaughn won the 2019 contest. (Photo provided/SVSU)

Simone Vaughn holds a plaque dedicated to the winners of the Sims Public Speaking Competition. Vaughn won the 2019 contest. (Photo provided/SVSU)

Mental health in black communities focus of SVSU student's award-winning speech

A Saginaw Valley State University student's passion for raising awareness about the mental health crisis in black communities recently helped her take home the top prize for a longstanding annual public speaking contest at the institution.

Simone Vaughn, a communication major from Saginaw, was the first-place prize recipient during the 30th annual Sims Public Speaking Competition in November at SVSU. A panel of judges selected Vaughn for her presentation, titled "Black Hole: The Mental Health Crisis in the Black Community."

Vaughn will receive a $400 cash prize.

Vaughn is accustomed to presenting to crowds. In July, she was voted the titleholder of Miss Saginaw County, which is part of the Miss America Organization that offers scholarships to women across the nation.

Five other students earned cash prizes for their speeches during the Sims Public Speaking Competition. They are as follows:

Kailey Johnston, a communication major from Shelby Township, earned second place and $250 for her presentation, titled "Stopping Alt-Right Groups From Recruiting Teen Boys Online."

Jessica Davis, an elementary education major from Fowlerville, received third place and $150 for her speech, titled "Secondary School Start Time."

Mikayla Rigda, a communication major from Birch Run, earned $50 as a finalist for her presentation, titled "Adoption Laws in America."

Brittany Rubio, a communication major from New Haven, received $50 as a finalist for her presentation, "Campus Housing Safety."

Austin Teeple, a communication major from Bay Mills, eared $50 as a finalist for his speech, titled "Palm Oil."

SVSU's annual Sims Public Speaking Contest is sponsored through an endowment funded by Larry and Linda Sims, longtime supporters of the university. Larry Sims recently retired as president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Saginaw County. Linda Sims recently retired as SVSU's executive director of communications and external affairs. She previously served as chair of the university's Board of Control.

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The term "alt-right" has more than one definition, and this article currently uses both

The Alt-right, or alternative right, is an emerging faction of the right-wing that opposes unrestrained multiculturalism, un-"skilled" immigration, and globalization.[1][2] The alt-right has emerged as one of the central opponents of the Establishment. Although originally intended to refer to nationalist and anti-establishment conservatives, liberals have twisted the term and have used it to describe white supremacists and neo-Nazis. Regardless of the definition(s) of "alt-right," the Left's extreme beliefs and behaviors are the cause of the alt-right's growth, not conservatives.[3]

The alt-right movement's central theme is as follows:[4]

"The origins of the alternative right can be found in thinkers as diverse as Oswald Spengler, Joseph Sobran, H.L Mencken, Julius Evola, Sam Francis, and the paleoconservative movement that rallied around the presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan.[5] The French New Right also serve as a source of inspiration for many leaders of the alt-right.".[6] Contemporary alt-right authors include Jared Taylor, Steve Sailor, Richard Spencer, Paul Kersey, Razib Khan, and Milo Yiannopoulos.[7]

Leading alt-right websites include Radix Journal, Countercurrents Publishing, The Unz Review, Taki Mag, The Right Stuff, and Red Ice.[8][9][10][11][12][13] More mainstream "alt-lite" websites include Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit.

Alt-right as a term appeared in November 2008 when Paul Gottfried addressed the H. L. Mencken Club about what he called "the alternative right". In 2009, two more posts at Taki's Magazine, by Patrick J. Ford and Jack Hunter, further discussed the 'alternative right.' The term is commonly attributed to Richard B. Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute and founder of Alternative Right magazine.[14]

The alternative right has alternately been called libertarian nationalism, "neo"-paleoconservatism, "evolutionary" conservatism, "scientific" conservatism, and the post-religious right.[15]

The style of the alt-right is to reject the approaches of the mainstream media, and use the internet rather than traditional avenues of communication preferred by moderates.[16]

The alt-right employs a "culture jammming" approach to its opposition with memes on Reddit, 4chan, 9gag, and Facebook.[17] This involves using modified artifacts of popular culture, specifically characters such as Pepe the frog, Moonman or anime characters to demonstrate the non-falsifiabile attributes of the neoliberal mantra of social change driven by global capitalism.[18][19]

Breitbart news editor Stephen Bannon joined the Trump campaign in August 2016.[20]

The alternative right holds neoliberalism responsible for the decimation of national borders and national identity. It views the rise of left-leaning governments as an effect of multicultural amalgamation caused by large business interests run amok. Libertarian (anarcho-capitalistic) elements of the alt-right oppose Keynesianism as well which, paradoxically, is the national (as opposed to global) predecessor of neoliberalism.

Due to the alt-right's equation of globalized capitalism with Marxism, the movement has been compared to national anarchism (anarcho-fascism) on Wikipedia.[21]

The alt-right seeks racial "identitarianism" through a largely monocultural state; and cultural cohesion over economic interests.[22] The alt-right does not explicitly seek genocide of non-white races. It views national borders as a proxy for racial segregation, but does not support de facto racial segregation. Mainstream alt-righter members support skilled immigration.

Relationally, neo-nazism is a component of the alt-right (big-tent movement); the alt-right is NOT a component of neo-nazism. The alt-right heavily employs principles from Italian fascism which is the racially-agnostic predecessor of Nazism (German fascism).

Currently, there are growing tensions between the mainstream alt-right and the neo-Nazi wing. In September 2015, mainstream Alex Jones and neo-Nazi David Duke have also exchanged barbs, the former calling the latter a "Democratic plant" and the latter referring to his news organization, Infowars, as being "infiltrated" by Zionists.'In November 2016, a feud broke out between neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer (who, as previously stated, was one of the coiners of the term "alt-right") and Mike Cernovich, one of the most prominent alt-right meme-makers, after Cernovich publicly condemned Spencer and accused him of being controlled opposition for including the use of Nazi salutes at a pro-Trump victory party he held. Meanwhile, Paul Joseph Watson was harassed on Twitter by neo-Nazis after he posted a tweet that claimed that there were two alt-rights (the mainstream and the neo-Nazis), and that the neo-Nazi alt-right were "right-wing SJWs." [1][2] In December 2016, Mike Cernovich again got into a clash with the neo-Nazi wing after he banned neo-Nazi Tim Treadstone from attending a pro-Trump victory party after Treadstone posted multiple anti-Semitic tweets on Twitter.[3] Currently, the two neo-Nazi alt-right wikis, Metapedia and Rightpedia (the latter which was created by neo-Nazis that think Metapedia isn't racist enough) portray Conservapedia in an extremely negative light. Just to be clear how deranged those websites are, at least one of them, and in many cases both of them, do the following:

In addition, Metapedia has attacked President Donald Trump for having Jewish allies, acquaintances, friends, and family members, whom the wiki lists under the title, "Donald Trump's Jewish Friends and Associates." This list is under the "See Also" section in their article about the President, who is listed under the category, "Zionists." Note that Metapedia is fervently anti-Zionist. These are attempts to demonize Trump by linking him with a malicious, destructive Jewish plot which doesn't exist.

In light of such ideological differences, it is important to debate how often the term "alt-right" should be used by those who claim to follow the mainstream version of it. On one hand, the term is an accurate description (the mainstream "alt-right" are an alternative to RINOs). But on the other hand, since the term is most commonly attributed to neo-Nazi Richard B. Spencer, it might not be smart to proclaim to belong to a term associated with him unless you actually agree with his core positions, and doing so could be considered as ideologically dishonest as the left's hijacking of the term "liberal."

The alt-right distrusts large (anti-tribal) financial institutions as corrupt and rejects the open-borders aspect of mainstream libertarianism while affirming new allegiances, such as supporting gays by encouraging firearm ownership or giving support to unaffiliated Independent candidates that are anti-establishment, regardless of their political leanings.

The alt-right has seen its membership ranks swell exponentially with libertarians that reject weak national (non-tribal) leadership within their movement. Although they are not part of the original alt-right, ex-libertarians make up a plurality of this emerging grassroots movement.

See also: Atheism and the alt-right and Secular right

Professor George Hawley of the University of Alabama and author of the book Making Sense of the Alt-Right said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) about the alt-right movement:

In the Western World whites and males are both majorities within the atheist population (see: Demographics of atheism and Western atheism and race and Atheism and women).

The alt-right leader Richard Spencer is an atheist who calls himself a "cultural Christian".[24]

The alt-right emphasizes the crypto-polytheistic aspects of Christianity and links it to Greco-Roman and pan-European polytheistic history and "Western" accomplishments. The alt-right views Christianity as a religion distinct from Islam and Judaism in its polytheistic elements and "special" relationship to European history. The alt-right accepts the study of evolution and global warming as a product of Western polytheistic science. It rejects the faction of evangelical Christianity for its pro-immigration stance (for proselytization purposes) although it views Europe's history of colonization and Christian proselytization as having a positive effect on those respective colonial countries. Evangelical Christianity has moved to the right in recent times when it comes to immigration. Evangelical - especially white Evangelicals -overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. However, the alt-right has not made significant inroads among evangelicals due to many alt-right individuals being irreligious or not very religious. In addition, many evangelicals have a sense of solidarity with their fellow Christians from other races.

Due to its pro-"Western science" views the alternative right has on occasion called itself "evolutionary" conservatism or "scientific" conservatism.

The alt-right views Israel as a model for white nationalism and/or Christianism. While opposing Jewish 'hypocrisy' on white identity issues, the alt-right admires the Jewish unity and tribalism manifested in a Zionist state [25] In keeping with its isolationist approach, the alt-right opposes an EXCLUSIVE alliance between America and Israel.

A large chorous of authors and activist in the alt-right view the Constitution as subordinate to nationalism, and some view the Constitution as completely outmoded, including mainstream alt-right publications such as Radix Journal, Counter-Currents, and The Right Stuff.[6][7][8][9][10] When Vox Day wrote a journal entry saying that he believes that "the constitution has failed us"[11], one single author on Red Ice came to the defense of the Constitution.[12]

Some college students are coming to resent the ideals of Progressivism, which seemingly pushes them toward the right. However, having a deep dissatisfaction for the perversion of "equality" (which is actually re-packaged sameness) that has come as a part of Postmodernism, this leads them to reject "equality" outright and no attempts to describe the difference between equality and the push toward sameness have any effect. As such, these students are not progressives, but they wholly reject Christianity,[26] the Christian Reformation, the resulting age of Enlightenment, and finally the United States Constitution.[27]

The movement is smeared by elitists of society that thinks it knows better. However, the usual liberal scare tactics and other social engineering schemes are rejected. The alt-right moves to its own beat. The alt-right opposes Feminism, and masculinity is promoted. Anything liberal and the views held by RINOs: immigration, political correctness, cultural appropriation, misogyny, "homophobia", etc. are fiercely rejected.

Where the Establishment or modern conservatives shy away from a fight for fear of being called "racist", "bigoted" or "ignorant" by liberals projecting their own attitudes and beliefs onto them, the alt-right unapologetically fights against this notion.

Extremist leftwing progressives at the Southern Poverty Law Center have taken notice, recently commenting about Breitbart and their inclusion to the SPLC hate-list[28]

While the term has been used in specialized writing about politics and ideology for years, the term gain mainstream usage following a speech by Hillary Clinton attacking Donald Trump's connections to the Alt-Right.[29]

We've hijacked your -isms.

We've hijacked your -phobias.

We've hijacked your divisive rhetoric.

We've Pepe'd/meme'd/gif'd/video edited it all into oblivion.

You can censor/flag/ban us, we'll come back stronger. We always do.

We won't be silenced.

We won't go away.

We're just getting started.

Vox Day, a vocal proponent of the alt-right, argues the alt-right will see substantial growth in the shortterm and midterm due to immigration backlash and whites becoming a racial minority in the United States (Day argues that whites will embrace identity politics). In addition, Day believes that the alt-right has a long term future, but it must embrace cultural Christianity and support Christian revival if this is going to happen.[30] Day also argues that right-wing parties in Europe started to grow quickly in Europe after they publicly dissociated themselves with neo-nazis. Day argues that alt-right can do the same. Also, Day argues that Nazism is leftist and never has been right-wing.[31] Furthermore, Day predicts that there will be a Reconquista 2.0 and that Muslims will be expelled out of Europe.[32]

On the other hand, Paul Gottfried argues that the alt-right brand has been permanently damaged due to the alt-right leader Richard Spencer and others ruining the brand of the alt-right and the movement is now associated with neo-nazism and racism (Richard Spencer made some allusions to Nazism and gave a Nazi salutes at an alt-right gathering and it was caught on film. Spencer claimed he was only joking and it was a display or irony and exhuberance. At the alt-right gathering, many alt-righters joined him in his Nazi salutes).[33][34]

The alt-right is heavily dependent on white nationalism. In Europe, the fertility rate of whites is below a sub-replacement level.[35] In the United States in many areas, whites have a sub-replacement levels of fertility while racial minorities are growing thanks in part to their higher fertility rates (this is particularly true among Hispanics).[36]

See also: Atheism vs. Christian revival and Christian apologetics and Revival

Evangelicals have not been very receptive to the alt-right. If there was a substantial growth of evangelicalism in the West (due to a revival, their higher fertility rates, immigration and other factors), it likely would not benefit the alt-right.

In addition, a significant growth of evangelical Christianity in the West is due to American Hispanic evangelicals and evangelical European immigrants.

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The similarity was spotted by journalist Dustin Giebel and Twitter user @Rukhnamalives, who collaboratively reported that the lion logo at the end of the video closely resembled a logo that surfaced in 2016 as the symbol of the Lion Guard, thedigital vigilantes who aim to suppress anti-Trump supporters online (the name comes from a Mussolini quote Trump once tweeted: Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.).

The lion logo has also been used by the white nationalist website Vdare, which you can see in this archived tweet from the groups Dutch Twitter account (the account has since been suspended for supporting white supremacy). Vdares website is still up and running, and its content is being circulated among the Trump administration: the Justice Department sent a link to one of the sites anti-Semitic, racist blog posts to immigration judges last week.

According to writer Horace Bloom, who independently published a book comparing Trump to Hitler, the lion logo is known as the Fascist Lion. He writes that the Lion Guard has used this same lion symbol in a seal that is remarkably similar to ones used in Nazi Germany.

All things considered, its a remarkably apt logo for the president, given his long history of supporting white supremacists. It appears the video was produced by aTwitter user called @som3thingwicked, who often makes pro-Trump memes and whose handle appears in the corner of the video. While it may be a fan-produced ad, Trump tweeted the video without any other explanation about its origins. It has been viewed 2.4 million times on Twitter as of Thursday morning.

Trumps 2016 campaign logo was widely mocked for an intertwined T and P (the latter representing Mike Pence) where the T appeared to be penetrating the P. Trump soon pulled the logo.

Fast Company has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment and will update this post if we hear back.

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