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We like a good Blues Brothers reference as much as the next person, and Trump probably does get the reference if not the irony, and perhaps Jake and Elwood would be MAGA bros from the get-go—one never knows. But the Pepe the Frog standing on the sidewalk there… Did the Trumpster not see it when he posted this? Does he not get that particular reference? Or is he admitting that he is all in on it?

 

It is the legendary riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, served with frim fram sauce and shafafa on the side.

 

From The NY Times: 

    In the Oval Office one day last week, President Trump renewed his no-holds-barred attack on the nation’s oldest university. “They’re totally antisemitic at Harvard,” he declared.

    Just 10 hours later, he posted an image of himself striding down a street with the caption, “He’s on a mission from God and nothing can stop what is coming.” Shown in the shadows, watching with approval, was a cartoon figure commonly seen as an antisemitic symbol.

    The appearance of the figure, the alt-right mascot Pepe the Frog, was the latest example of Mr. Trump’s extensive history of amplifying white supremacist figures and symbols, even as he now presents himself as a champion for Jewish students oppressed by what he says is a wave of hatred on American college campuses.

    As a younger man, Mr. Trump kept a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet by his bed, according to his first wife. During his first term as president, he expressed admiration for some aspects of the Nazi Führer’s leadership, according to his chief White House aide at the time. In the past few years, he has dined at his Florida estate with a Holocaust denier while his New Jersey golf club has hosted events at which a Nazi sympathizer spoke.