All posts tagged "Adolf Hitler"

The war of words between comics Larry David and Bill Maher has become anything but funny.

David, one of the creators of the wildly successful "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" sitcoms, wrote a satirical op-ed for The New York Times about having dinner with Adolf Hitler, in a not-so-veiled criticism of Maher's recent meeting with President Donald Trump.

The Times deputy opinion editor Patrick Healy wrote that he "understood Larry's intent in writing this piece."...

The Senate's top Democrat expressed his outrage to CNN after a Republican senator called him a "fuhrer," a German term meaning "leader" that's commonly associated with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told reporters, "Republicans are independently minded. Democrats are monolithic sheep that follow the Fuhrer Schumer's orders."

"Moreno, who was elected in November, made the comment to reporters outside the Senate chamber as members of his caucus struggled to agree on a path forward to try to pass President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cut agenda," reported The Columbus Dispatch....

Donald Trump is breaking the unbreakable internet rule that states you’re winning the fight when the person you’re fighting compares you to Adolf Hitler, says the coiner of said unbreakable rule.

Mike Godwin of Godwin’s law renown told Politico Tuesday that Trump has proven the exception to his rule, coined more than three decades ago, that says most internet arguments will include a Hitler comparison, and that comparison will come from the person who's losing.

Godwin argues President Joe Biden’s campaign’s decision to say Trump “parroted Adolf Hitler” isn’t a sign that they’re losing the fight because Trump is so clearly courting the comparison. ...

Someone should probably ask Donald Trump if he knows how much his rhetoric and threats mirror those made by Adolf Hitler — because it’s been an open question for too long, the Washington Post recommended Monday.

“Stories about Trump’s flirtations with Hitler — or, at least, with some narrowly constructed vision of the mass murderer — have been around for decades,” wrote analyst Philip Bump.

“Is Trump doing so knowingly — or is he simply following the same path those dictators walked?”...

A Christian ministry in Alabama said this week that it would remove a billboard with a quote by Adolf Hitler that it had used to promote its work with children.