If this was intentional - and I think it was - it was not a "dog whistle", much less was it "code".
It was more of a blatant shout out to the alt.right.
The kind of folks we saw and heard at Charlottesville.
Trump thanked 'great people' shown in Twitter video in which a man chants 'white power'
Check out the video.
No mistaking the guy in the cart shouting "White power!" repeatedly, fist raised.
This is a chant or slogan of nobody but committed and very self-aware white racists.
The tweet was deleted after the news had insured everyone was aware of it.
President Donald Trump on Sunday morning widely shared a video he said is from the Villages, a retirement community in Florida, in which a man driving a golf cart with Trump campaign posters is seen chanting "white power."
The President retweeted the video that showed the community's Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters arguing with one another.
The President thanked the "great people" shown in the video.
"Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe is shot. See you soon!!" he wrote in the tweet.
Roughly three hours later, the tweet no longer appeared in Trump's timeline.
Ask yourself this.
If the Duce had seen and heard the fellow in the golf cart covered with Trump signs shouting "White power!" and pumping his fist at a live rally, what would have been his reaction?
Would he have blanched in horror?
Would he instantly have publicly rejected the man and his support and the support of anybody like him as somebody like McCain or Romney would have done?
Pshaw.
That is not what he did when he was told David Duke supported him in 2016, when he and Pence both very clearly did not want to reject the support of the racist right.
If this had happened at a McCain or Romney support rally and they said or did nothing that would prove they were not aware.
But the Duce?
The Great Fat Orange Klansman in the White House?
I think not only was he aware, that was the point of re-tweeting the video.
Even if he expected or planned its removal, from the beginning.
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