Robert Evans

Quote from that article.

The anti-Semitic hate, much of it from self-identified Donald J. Trump supporters, hasn't stopped since.

Trump God Emperor sent me the Nazi iconography of the shiftless, hook-nosed Jew.

I was served an image of the gates of Auschwitz, the famous words Arbeit Macht Frei, replaced without irony with Machen Amerika Great.

So, again, this guy and this journalist, like Wiseman doesn't recognize that this guy is making a Warhammer reference or at least he doesn't write about it.

Yeah.

It's just like, what the fuck is this?

The username of the guy messaging him.

And again, like, why would he have?

Right.

Like, if you don't like you wouldn't assume Trump God Emperor is someone referencing a video game.

You just in this context, you just assume it's a crazy fascist.

Right.

Yeah, but about two months after that column came out, a writer with the Huffington Post, Nico Pitney, wrote an article about the growing Trump God Emperor meme phenomenon.

Quote, among Trump's active online supporters using the nickname is now commonplace.

The post announcing Trump's participation in the Q&A heralded our God Emperor and a search of the phrase returned over 200 posts in the day after Trump's appearance.

Some forum members say God Emperor is simply a tongue in cheek attempt to rile up Trump opponents who fear he would be a strong man as president.

The term is attributed variously to God Emperor characters in the science fiction series Dune and a tabletop game called Warhammer 40,000.

We know he can't literally be one, wrote member New Jersey 908, but the phrase whips people into a frenzy, saying that we literally want a dictator.

Well, at least you're just saying that.