TRUMP: SECRET NAZI CODES

14, 88, AND MORE

Trump’s campaign text number. From Google and YouTube.

On August 4, 2019, after at least 31 people were killed in mass shootings in the US over the weekend, Trump ordered all flags to be flown at half-mast through August 8, 2019. Former Assistant Director for Counter Intelligence, FBI, Frank Figgliuzi explained on MSNBC that the fact that the US flags would be raised at on 8/8 is disturbing.

• 88 is a coded message “Heil Hitler” recognized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Figgliuzi expressed concern about Trump’s choice of speechwriters and failure to screen public statements for possible manipulations.

• However, Trump has a long history of using these coded messages in his speeches. Below are some examples.

WHY SECRET CODE?

Until recently, the neo-Nazis had to hide their views not just due to the global outrage at the atrocities of the fascist and Nazi regimes such as Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, Arrow Cross in Hungary but also because in many countries such insignia and symbolism are illegal. To identify each other and communicate, neo-Nazis and white supremacists have developed a secret coded language, using numbers, words, and gestures to identify each other. The majority of the population worldwide is not familiar with this language and does not recognize signals and signs hidden in social media posts, speeches and official statements of the Trump administration. These signals are called “dog-whistles.”

SOME EXAMPLES

88: ‘H’ is the eighth letter of the English alphabet. 88 reads ‘HH’, an abbreviation for ‘Heil Hitler.’” The Anti Defamation League calls 88 “one of the most common white supremacist symbols, [that] is used throughout the entire white supremacist movement, not just neo-Nazis.”

88 hand gestures and images. From ADL site.

14 WORDS: A mantra: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” According to the New York Times, “the saying was created by David Lane, a white supremacist sentenced to 190 years in prison in connection with the 1984 murder of the Jewish radio host Alan Berg.”

Left: Baked Alaska’s Tweet of 14 words mantra (see details on Baked Alaska below.) Right: Sarah Palin’s tweet that is considered to be a dog-whistle, after Trump’s speech in Poland, which he ended with “…I declare today for the world to hear that the West will never, ever be broken. Our values will prevail, our people will thrive, and our civilization will triumph.”

The ‘14 words’ is frequently used with the number 88 in combinations like 1488, 14–88, etc.

TRUMP’S HISTORY OF USING 88 AND 14

• In September 2016, Trump released an endorsement letter signed by 88 retired military figures.

• In February 2016, Trump retweeted a Mussolini quote by an account @ilduce2016, created by Gawker writers as a prank. When asked if he wanted to be associated with a fascist by an interviewer, Trump answered negatively but followed with a seemingly random statement containing a number 14: “No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes. And people, you know, I have almost 14 million people between Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all of that. And we do interesting things. And I sent it out. And certainly, hey, it got your attention, didn’t it?”

• In February 2018, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release with a title: “We Must Secure the Border and Build the Wall to Make America Safe Again.” It consists of 14 words, and its phrasing is strikingly similar to the 14 words of the neo-Nazi movement’s semi-official slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The DHS release also contained a passage: “On average, out of 88 [asylum] claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum.” In addition to its 14-word headline, the DHS release also contains “14 distinct sets of claims; 13 of which are bullet-pointed–one of which is not.”

• April, 2018, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency “repeatedly” targeted and apprehended U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, releasing 1,488 from custody since 2012.
• In November 2018, Don Trump Jr. tweeted an attack against independent Maine Sen. Angus King that could have come straight from the white supremacist Iowa Republican congressman Steve King. It had the standard fearmongering of the “other,” in this case, Syrian and “Somalian” refugees; it criticized Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish; and included “88,” “Let’s be clear about what happened here — Donald Trump Jr misstated statistics so he could attack Angus King with a neo-Nazi dogwhistle,” ThinkProgress journalist Aaron Rupar tweeted.

• On July 15, 2018, Trump campaign announced that it has collected 88 million USD.

• In September 2018, The Health and Human Services Department recently told Senate staffers that case managers could not find 1,488 children after they made follow-up calls to check on their safety from April through June.

AP News.

• Recently, in 2019, Trump tweeted the racist attack on the congresswomen July 14.

BACKGROUND

A family and personal history of Trump’s sympathy for the Nazi, fascist, Klan and white supremacy movements and ideology has been reported but is often overlooked.

• In 1927, Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was arrested in KKK brawl with police.

* In the 1990s, Trump’s cousin who worked for the Trump Organization was reported by Ivana Trump to click his heels and say, “Heil Hitler” on entering Donald Trump’s office.

From The Vanity Fair.

• According to Ivana Trump, from time to time Donald Trump read a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he kept in a cabinet by his bed. Trump admitted that his friend Marty Davis gave him a copy of Mein Kampf, noting that Davis was a Jew. Davis said he gave Trump a copy of My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf, and noted that he was not a Jew. Trump later spilled wine over Marie Brenner, the author of this article from the Vanity Fair, at a reception.

TRUMP’S ADVISORS AND SUPPORTERS EXCHANGING CODED MESSAGES

• Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, made it the “platform for alt-right,” served as a senior advisor to Trump, and returned to Breitbart in August 2017. Bannon also hired Milo Yiannopoulos as a Breitbart News contributor. Below is a screenshot of Yiannopoulos’ post in which he uses 14.88 to intimidate a journalist of Jewish descent.

Alt-right figure Milo Yiannopoulos tried on Saturday, June 23, to troll a Jewish journalist using 14–88.

• A neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, the president of National Policy Institute, known and open supporter of Trump and Putin, threw a Nazi salute and shouted Heil Trump at an alt-right conference. Spencer has close ties to Stephen Miller, a senior adviser to Trump, a fierce advocate of “ethno-nationalism,” the racist belief that Europe and America must protect their (white) culture and civilization from outsiders who do not share their “Judeo-Christian values.” Miller allegedly made “white power” signs in the White House.

Left: Richard Spencer making a white power sign. From the Internet. Right: Richard Spencer throwing a Nazi salute in 2016.

Left: Stephen Miller at the White House. Right: A man, accused of killing 50 people in a mosque in New Zealand, made hand gestures associated with white supremacy during his appearance in the court.

During the election campaign, Trump signed an arm of “Tim” Gionet, aka “Baked Alaska,” an open neo-Nazi, at a rally. Gionet, one of the organizers of the Unite the Right Rally at Charlottesville, retweeted videos of his friends saying that Hitler did nothing wrong, as well as images of people in gas chambers. Gionet has also twitted the “Fourteen Words,” a neo-Nazi mantra. (see above.)

Antonio Foreman, a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, and Gionet’s bodyguard, received a personally signed gift from Trump after he got wounded during a confrontation with Armenian gang members in LA.

Left: Trump and Gionet. A photo from Internet archives. Right: Gionet’s tweet of Foreman receiving a gift from Trump as Foreman making a white power sign.

• In 2017, Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the President of the United States at the time, appeared on the Fox News on the evening of the presidential inauguration wearing a badge, tunic, and ring of the organization listed as having been “under the direction of the Nazi government of Germany,” Order of Vitéz. More on Gorka’s multiple neo-Nazi and nationalists connections here.

Left: Sebastian Gorka and Milo Yiannopoulos. Right: Milo Yiannopoulos with Richard Spencer and other white supremacists doing a Nazi Salute to America the Beautiful song. Yiannopoulos and his group were all dressed alike, outfitted in the pastels and crew-cuts that can often be seen at alt-right gatherings. After Spencer and their companions started to give Nazi salutes, “Perry [the bartender] says she lost it and rushed the stage, grabbing the microphone from Yiannopoulos just as the song, and video clip, ended. “I said ‘Get the fuck out. You are not welcome here, at all,’” Perry says. “I was yelling at them, and, I remember this distinctly, they all came around me on the stage and were yelling things. Some were shouting ‘Trump, Trump, Trump,’ at that point it started to hit me who these people were, and then they started saying ‘Make America Great Again.’ Then I had people get in my face, it might have been Milo because he didn’t immediately go outside, he was kind of getting them aroused, and they were saying ‘Make America White Again.’” As reported by Dallas Observer.Watch video here. Right: Gionet with Yiannopoulos, who is making the white supremacy hand sign.

MELANIA TRUMP’S WARDROBE AND CODED MESSAGES

• In June 2018, Melania Trump wore a jacket that said “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” to visit immigrant children in June. The slogan is a direct translation of the motto of Italian Black-shirts, ‘Me ne frego,’ the title of one of the most famous songs of the Fascist era. Its original version, dating around 1920, hails D’Annunzio and Mussolini as the fathers of the fascist movement. Mussolini made the slogan his own, writes Giovanni Tiso here.

• On October 6, 2018, Melania Trump wore a French Nazi archaeologist outfit, Dr. Rene Belloq in Indiana Jones’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Alt-right are known to dress up in this manner: I have personally taken a picture of an alt-right woman dressed up as Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht, a right-hand man of Dr. Rene Bellog, at a rally in SF and Berkeley, with a flag of Kekistan that is a replica of a Nazi flag.

Left: Melania Trump dressed as a French Nazi archaeologist outfit, Dr. Rene Belloq in Indiana Jones’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Center: A woman dressed as Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst Toht, a right-hand man of Dr. Rene Bellog, at a rally in SF and Berkeley. Right: a flag of Kekistan that is a replica of a Nazi flag.

This list can go on. See some details here.

INSTEAD OF CONCLUSION

In August 2017, after the wake of the white-supremacist rally and counterprotest in Charlottesville, Katharine Gorka, a wife of Sebastian Gorka, was instrumental in defunding counter-terrorism groups: withdrawing $400,000 grant from Life After Hate, a group that works on deradicalization of extremists, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis, and $393,800 grant form the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a community group working on fighting terrorism. Sebastian Gorka dismissed concerns about white nationals during an appearance on the “Breitbart News Daily” radio show.

It is critically important to recognize that Trump’s administration takes an active part in the latest domestic terrorist attacks.

Read more about Russian cyberwar and propaganda here, Russian government and oligarchs ties with Trump here, about Berkeley protest here. Recommended article on neo-Nazis and their Russian tieshere.

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