Donald Trump Tweets Patriotic Image of His Face with Nazi Soldiers

There is no way this lede paragraph can improve on the headline: Donald Trump accidentally tweeted a patriotic image of his face that included Nazi soldiers instead of American ones.

The lead soldier with the camo uniform in the now-deleted tweet is very obviously wearing a Waffen-SS uniform. For those who skipped history class, the SS were basically the worst kind of Nazis there were.

Oops.

UPDATE (3:54 PM EST): CNN’s MJ Lee reports that the Trump campaign claims “an intern accidentally posted questionable photo” and apologized. Meanwhile Mother Jones managed to track down the original image used in Trump’s tweet, and confirmed that the soldiers are Nazis:

[Image via screengrab]
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