The Department of Education on Wednesday blasted out a wild social media post in which it seemed to compare President Donald Trump and his administration to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. The post was deleted after this story was published.
In the post on X, the department wrote, “No one does it like us.” Following those words was a tiger emoji. The text was accompanied by a 19-second video montage that began with a scene from Darkest Hour, the 2017 biopic about former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British fight against the Nazis. In the scene, Churchill, played by Gary Oldman, is urged to negotiate with Germany. A disgusted Churchill responds emphatically, “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!”
The snippet posted by the Department of Education features only Churchill’s response, which is followed by a montage of Trump clips in which the president is raising a fist or pointing. The montage is set to “WE GO ON” by the rapper BIA.
Several non-MAGA users on X noted that the Department of Education’s post likened or seemed to liken Trump to Hitler. That includes Pedro Gonzalez, a former Trump supporter who has become disillusioned with the MAGA movement.
“The right plays this game where it winks at white supremacists and even fascists, like this post does: the ‘tiger’ referenced in this clip is Hitler, and the dweebs in the Trump-Vance administration are using it to mean Trump,” Gonzalez tweeted. “Do you get the very subtle joke here? Nudge nudge wink wink.”
Here are some other reactions.
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