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I take it that's a shot of some hot swastika buns he baked? Or just someone else's photograph that he forwarded?

While it's true that the Nazi Hakenkreuz was a clockwise swastika, both clockwise and anti-clockwise swastikas are used in various cultures, and the orientation issue is therefore irrelevant as a criterion of distinction (it's more relevant in what cultural continuity the symbol is used; hence lots of innocent usage in places where it has a more noble tradition, and highly ignoble usage in Europe):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

I think it can safely be assumed, quite possibly reinforced by unwitting revelations elsewhere in the picture of certain deep-seated problems, that the poster may be given to fantasies of violence, and that the 'playful' depiction of the symbol may be related to this somehow.

Is he also a Mayor of something or other, or what is the ceremonial chain about?