White House calls out Trump’s immigrant comments as ‘fascist’
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It comes after the campaign said Trump's inflammatory comments about immigrants ‘parroted Adolf Hitler.’

The Biden campaign fiercely denounced Donald Trump following his caustic remarks aimed at immigrants Saturday, saying the former president “parroted Hitler.”

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Biden-Harris 2024 spokesperson Ammar Moussa said in a statement.

Trump on Saturday ratcheted up his already inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants at a rally in New Hampshire. “They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” the former president said. “They’ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world. Not just in South America, not just the three or four countries that we think about, but all over the world they’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia.”

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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      2 years ago

      TBF, it’s not hard to parrot Hitler. When they put emphasis on him being a former corporal, that’s because he behaved like a pretty mundane former corporal. Was a born orator, though, which is hard to attribute to Trump.

      Now Goebbels himself was more dramatic and original and just as good an orator as Hitler. Which means he’s being regularly revisited by modern politicians for his efficiency, and not because of just being mundane.

      • Xariphon@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        I say this as someone who opposes him utterly: Trump used to actually be a decent orator. It’s… kinda sad, and kinda scary, in a way. I watched an interview he did from… sometime in the 80s, I want to say. I didn’t agree with everything he said, but he seemed well composed and he made his points coherently.

        Compare that to how he is nowadays and it’s like it’s not even the same man. Not just the raging psychopathy and egomania, but how he wanders off mid sentence and such. The cognitive decline is painfully obvious. When you figure this is a guy who had access to the best possible modern medicine his entire life, it’s scary to see.

      • fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 years ago

        no he won’t, not if American voters keep apathetically stumbling towards fascism like they have been the last few years. The only way this is going to work is if everybody Taylor Swift’s the fuck out of this election, no more pussy footing around

        • deft@ttrpg.network
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          2 years ago

          Uhh what?? Trump got elected once. That is it. Since then Dems have basically come out on top every election since likely because of Trump. Polling has always proven to be dog shit.

          Trump is a boogeyman Dems use to encourage people to vote their way. We aren’t heading to fascism because of him

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      He’s definitely going to win, fascism is way too popular. Biden’s not great, but Trump’s a fucking disaster

      • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        The “their” you reference is the Democratic Party. It’s the party’s best chance of defeating Trump. People with better chances don’t fit well enough within the party to get their nomination.

        And the only reason the Democratic Party has a say is because the U.S. political system was designed to only allow one of two winners. The system is designed so that any third party offering will fail, and their attempt will harm the party with the “nearest” compatible beliefs.

        It’s a shitshow. Built poorly (on purpose to preserve power of the political elites), and litigated to be even worse, so corporations can bribe those elites.