MSNBC's Joy Reid claimed on Monday that similarities between Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and the United States under President Donald Trump are undeniable. The post Joy Reid Compares Trump To Hitler: ‘Similarities To What Happened In Germany and What’s Happening Now Are Undeniable’ first appeared on Mediaite.
“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories.”
Immediately after the July 2024 attempted assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump, a photograph showing him responding to the gunfire with his fist raised spread rapidly online. Soon, social media users compared that scene to an image supposedly showing Adolf Hitler posing in the same way.
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Musk's AfD support, followed a gesture many said resembled a Nazi salute, and came as leaders are due to observe the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation.
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The diaries, which were lost for 80 years, reportedly chronicle 139 meetings between Adolf Hitler and Unity Mitford from 1935 to 1939.
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
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"Elon Musk has repeatedly pushed for the racist and antisemitic 'Great Replacement' conspiracy theory, endorsed the Nazi-sympathizing German Political Party AfD, and allowed anti-Jewish hate to proliferate unabated on his website, X," said Goldman in the statement, which was emailed to Newsweek on Tuesday.
Adolf Hitler’s “English girlfriend” was bullied by Joseph Goebbels because she said she did not like Benito Mussolini, her secret diaries have revealed.
There is no record of the post on Musk's X profile. There have been no credible news reports about the supposed post from Musk.