The New York Daily News on Sunday blared on its front page “Trump is Hitler,” quoting comedian, actor and producer Louis C.K., who made the comparison in an email newsletter to fans over the weekend.
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In his email on Saturday, Louis C.K. pleaded with people to “please stop it with voting for Trump. It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler,” he wrote. “And by that, I mean that we are being Germany in the 30s . . . Do you think they saw the s–t coming? Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over who would say anything at all.”
Friday night, on his HBO show “Real Time,” Bill Maher mentioned that the conservative Weekly Standard dug up a 1990 article in Vanity Fair reporting that Trump “kept a volume of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside,” adding, “I think this tells us a lot about where Donald Trump is getting his ideas.”
Maher then proceeded to show an old film clip of Hitler delivering a passionate speech, with satirical subtitles using Trump slogans such as, “We’re going to make Germany great again” and labeling President Hindenburg as being “very low energy.” The clip even mocked Trump’s pledge to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, with the subtitles over Hitler’s speech saying: “We’re going to have to build a camp. And I will make the Jews pay for it.” ...
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