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President Donald Trump on Tuesdaytook time away from berating his staff and makingwiretapping claimsto drop in on a group of visiting students from Birmingham Alabamas Briarwood Christian School who weretaking a tour of the White House.

Things stayed pretty on script as Trump invited a 10-year-old to pose with him for the cameras. The touching moment was captured in a brief video posted to CSPAN, which ultimately made its way to their Twitter account.

Largely unnoticed, however, was a curious hand gesture made by the 10-year-oldtoward the end of the footage. In a simpler time, the gesture could have been written off as an ok symbol but not today. The hand movement bears a striking similarity to one that has often been made by the ultimate Trump meme warrior, Pepe the Frog.

The animated frog reached near mythical status during the 2016 campaign, earning a specialcondemnation from Hillary Clinton andhate symbolstatus from the Anti-Defamation League.

While Pepes prominence waned after the election, he is still regularly invoked by provocative right wing pundits. The Gateway Pundits Jim Hoft and Lucian Wintrich, for example, recently flashed the gesture from the White House briefing room, prompting Media Matters toonce again remind everyone that itwas a hand signal associated with the racist Pepe meme.

Its also worth noting that the gesture is widely used by President Trump himself and that the young manmay have just been trying to emulate the President of the United States.

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