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How Pepe the Frog Became a Nazi Trump Supporter and Alt-Right Symbol

FEELS RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE, MAN

4chan’s Pepe the Frog meme was wildly popular among ‘normies’—until white nationalists decorated him with swastikas and gave him a Trump button.

Olivia Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi
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