Trump invokes Godwin, then pulls a Hitler
Trump’s ‘Nazi Germany’ tweet doesn’t go over so well
President-elect Donald Trump’s “Nazi Germany” tweet went over about as well as you’d expect.
Immediately after Trump’s tweet Wednesday morning, in which he likened the leak of an unverified opposition report to living in “Nazi Germany,” Holocaust educators and Twitter users displayed disgust at his bizarre analogy.
“It is a despicable insult to Holocaust survivors around the world, and to the nation he is about to lead, that Donald Trump compares America to Nazi Germany,” Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, said in a statement.
“The President-elect has denigrated our nation and its commitment to freedom on the eve of his inauguration. He must retract his tweet and apologize to survivors and to our entire nation.”
The Anti-Defamation League also demanded an apology from the President-elect.
"No one should cavalierly draw analogies to Nazi Germany, especially the next leader of free world. It is not only a ridiculous comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust."
On Twitter, users wondered whether Trump himself even understood what he meant with his tweet.
“Help me understand, in this bizarrely troubling 'Nazi Germany' metaphor Trump used, is he Hitler or a persecuted Jew facing the Holocaust?” asked Matthew McDermott, a senior analyst at the polling and consulting firm Whitman Insight Strategies.
“Yes, because the leaking of fake news was quite the worst thing about living in Nazi Germany,” quipped comedian and author David Baddiel.
“Perhaps a better example, Donald, might've been Stalinist Russia. But I understand you don't want to upset your friends,” he added.
Trump jumped into Nazi territory during a morning tweetstorm blasting a leaked report making unverified claims that he has deep business ties to Russia and is being blackmailed with evidence of “perverted” sex acts he paid for in Moscow.
"Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?" Trump wrote in one tweet.
Trump received support through his campaign from neo-Nazi groups, including the American Nazi Party, and waited until his victory to say he disavowed it.
The stepsister of Anne Frank even accused Trump of “acting like another Hitler.”
“If Donald Trump becomes the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster,” Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz survivor, wrote in a Newsweek essay last January.
“I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism.”
Trump’s ‘Nazi Germany’ tweet doesn’t go over so well - NY Daily News
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