Better yet, go to Germany and do it.
To the person that made this gif: thank you for your service. You had to pour over far more footage of this nonsense than anybody should ever have to.
Playing devil’s advocate, it appears Hitler doesn’t usually start with an open palm on his heart, but one perpendicular to his chest.
But sometimes he just goes straight from arms down to the salute. There’s some variability.
Anyway, this is splitting hairs to an obscene degree. You have to contort your brain to not see this as a Nazi salute, ignoring the context or not, and in any other time a public figure would have at least apologized for doing this if they weren’t impeached/dismissed/fired.
I’ve seen several people try to defend it by saying that the Nazi salute doesn’t start with your hand over your heart… Well this gif really clears things up.
I have a Jewish friend that is defending it saying that his arms were sideways and the Nazi salute is in front. I sent him this and he said… Welp, I guess it’s time to move.
Well, at least wait until it’s part of the law requiring all businesses to use it as formal greetings.
Ah, yes, the Trump salute. You raise your outstretched right arm and say “hail Trump”. This is based on the ancient roman salute and nothing else.
don’t worry, he did it at work and he was fine!
