Thousands of Supporters Raising Their Right Hands at a Trump Rally Is Heil-ly Unsettling

Donald Trump asked supporters to raise their right hand to take an oath, but what happened next was a little disturbing.

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While Ted Cruz was busy winning the Kansas GOP caucus, Donald Trump was down in magical Orlando, Fla. holding a rally at the University of Central Florida that brought out more than 10,000 people and was interrupted by protesters more than a dozen times in one hour, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

At one point Drumpf Trump asked his thousands of supporters to raise their right hands in salute unison to take a pledge that they'd vote for him, but the strange familiarity of the resulting image is pretty hard to Nazi not see, am I Reich right? Check out the photo tweeted out by New York Post columnist John Podhoretz.

Trump rally in Florida. He asked people to swear they would vote for him. This photo ensued. pic.twitter.com/dE18AJLIEv

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 5, 2016

And this gif from Buzzfeed's Brandon Wall in case you need to see it in motion.

Donald Trump tells the audience to raise their right hands and promise to vote for him pic.twitter.com/thqQYL2tlF

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) March 5, 2016

We'll just let that marinate for a minute—it doesn't seem to need any Fuhrer further explanation.

Oh, and in other completely unrelated whatsoever news, did you hear that Louis CK compared Trump to Adolf Hitler in an email today?

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