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| Anti-Trans military article shared by Trump on social media featured a Pink Triangle with a prohibited marker over it. |
Meidas News reports that Trump posted an article to his Truth Social account this weekend featuring a deeply troubling image: a pink triangle—the Nazi-era symbol used to identify and persecute gay men in concentration camps—covered with a red prohibited sign.
The Washington Times opinion article by Jeremy Hunt published Wednesday, February 19, 2025, "Army recruitment ads look quite different under Trump" (archived) features that pink triangle with a red prohibited sign supported by a soldier in fatigues.
Typical of fascists, had Hunt taken the time to research Nazi-era iconography he would have known to feature a black triangle. It's also possible that the pink triangle is appropriate as Trump is planning to rid the military of the entire LGBTQI community eventually.
Hunt wrote "For most presidents, major cultural change in our nation’s armed forces doesn’t happen overnight. It usually takes years for a commander in chief to leave a mark on the military. But President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are accomplishing what often takes years in a matter of weeks."
That is untrue as Trump's Trans Military Ban has been blocked by multiple courts that have issued preliminary injunctions. Unless overturned by his minions on the Supreme Court, those injunctions will likely stand.
Translash: Pink Triangle Legacy Origins: Berlin, Germany
Berlin opened The Institute for Sexual Science in Germany in 1919, the place where the word “transsexual” was coined, and where people could receive gender-affirming counseling and other services. Its lead doctor, Magnus Hirschfeld, also consulted on “the Lili Elbe sex change“, the world’s first documented “sex reassignment” surgery. In the 1920s, Berlin had nearly 100 gay and lesbian bars or cafes, and other affirming spaces for queer & gender non-conforming people.
But even though the process to decriminalize homosexuality had already begun in Germany in 1929, Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany successfully brought in penal reform of Paragraph 175, making homosexuality a felony. On May 6, 1933, the Nazis violently looted and closed The Institute for Sexual Science, burning its extensive collection on the streets – a direct attempt to erase the existence of LGBTQIA people.
From 1933–1945, an estimated 50K gay men and gender non-conforming people were sent to police prisons and concentration camps, where they were tortured and often murdered.
In Nazi concentration camps, LGBTQIA prisoners were required to wear a downward-pointing, triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color identifying the reason for their imprisonment. Early on, homosexual male prisoners were identified with a green triangle (indicating criminals) or red triangle (political prisoners), the number 175 (referring to Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code criminalizing homosexual activity), or the letter A (which stood for Arschficker, literally “arse fucker”).
The use of a pink triangle was later established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual men and transgender women. Lesbian and bisexual women and trans men who were imprisoned sometimes wore a black triangle, or a pink triangle. The pink triangle was also assigned to others considered sexual deviants. If a prisoner was also identified as Jewish, the pink triangle was superimposed over a second yellow triangle pointing the opposite way, to resemble the Star of David like the yellow badge identifying other Jews.
When Adolph Hitler needed to justify arresting and murdering former political allies in 1934, he often accused them of being gay.
Mr. Bannon, Mr. Musk and assorted MAGAt low lifes might want to take notice of the final paragraph in this article as Trump has shown over and over how he delights in crushing former allies.
