Former President Donald Trump’s latest marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis drew consideration for racist jokes and anti-immigration rhetoric, and claims he wore the trademark colours of a far-right extremist group.
“Each neo Nazi is aware of the importance of Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally Sunday, channeling the well-known 1939 Nazi rally held there,” an Oct. 27 Fb submit mentioned, referencing an notorious pro-Nazi gathering greater than 80 years in the past. “As a sign, final night time Trump put aside his conventional blue go well with & pink tie in lieu of Proud Boys black and gold. He’s getting the band again collectively.”
The submit included two photos: one among Trump in a black go well with with a golden yellow-colored tie and gold “Make America Nice Once more” lettering on his black hat, and the again of somebody’s black shirt that claims “Spokane Proud Boys” in yellow.
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The submit’s picture of Trump is genuine, but it surely’s not from the Oct. 27 Madison Sq. Backyard rally, the place he donned a blue go well with and pink tie — no hat.
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He wore the black go well with, golden-yellow tie and black hat with gold lettering per week later at an Oct. 25 marketing campaign rally in Traverse Metropolis, Michigan.
The picture of the Proud Boy can be genuine. A Shutterstock caption says it’s from a September 2020 rally in Portland, Oregon. The Southern Poverty Regulation Middle has declared the Proud Boys a hate group, and notes its members are “identifiable by their yellow-trimmed, black knockoff Fred Perry polos.”
The group’s members are sometimes photographed carrying black and yellow, together with in a polo shirt from the British firm Fred Perry, which in 2019 introduced it was pulling the shirt from the U.S. market till it was “happy that its affiliation with the Proud Boys has ended.”
Trump, in the meantime, advised the Proud Boys throughout a 2020 presidential debate to “stand again and stand by” following a query from moderator Chris Wallace, who requested if he was prepared to “condemn white supremacists and militia teams and to say that they should stand down.”
Trump later walked again the remark, saying he didn’t know who the Proud Boys had been.
We fee claims he wore black and gold to the Madison Sq. Backyard rally False.
