A meme posted on Facebook by Rep. Steve King Steven (Steve) Arnold KingTrump stokes Dems' anti-Semitism spat ahead of 2020 The Hill's Morning Report - Dems look to rebuild 'blue wall' Sarah Sanders won't say if Trump believes Dems hate Jews MORE (R-Iowa) asking whether red states or blue states would win a new U.S. civil war has been deleted.
The meme depicting human figures composed of “red” and “blue” states, with King’s state included among the blue ones, was posted on King's facebook page on Saturday evening.
“Wonder who would win....,” King added to the meme, followed by a smirking emoji.
It's not clear who put together the original image.
Steve King Posts Meme Fantasizing About Violent Civil War Between Red and Blue States https://t.co/vC0LtITQD0 pic.twitter.com/AGgrFq1MSa — Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 18, 2019
“Folks keep talking about another civil war; one side has about 8 trillion bullets while the other side doesn’t know which bathroom to use,” the meme reads.
In January, King was stripped of his committee assignments after the publication of a New York Times interview in which he questioned when identifying as a white nationalist or white supremacist “became offensive.”
King’s use of social media was the subject of frequent controversy before the interview, including a tweet in which he said “we can’t restore our civilization with someone else’s babies” and a June 2018 retweet of British white nationalist Mark Collett.
Twoweekswithpay on March 18th, 2019 at 18:58 UTC »
He deleted because his home state Of Iowa is listed as a blue state getting hit with those bullets... 🧐
Idiot.
babby-shark on March 18th, 2019 at 18:47 UTC »
He needs to be removed from office immediately. Can you imagine if Omar posted something like that? We'd never hear the end of it.
bad-green-wolf on March 18th, 2019 at 18:46 UTC »
He deleted it after his audience got the message and soaked it up.
Locking the barn after the horses escape were hidden for the insurance payout