Former President Donald Trump, who is running for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, is speaking at the Iowa State Fair held in Des Moines last August. /yunhap news
Former President Donald Trump, who is running again for the U.S. presidency, hurled harsh words such as “vermin” and “thugs” at people who opposed him.
According to the Washington Post (WP) and The Hill on the 13th (local time), former President Trump said in a speech he gave in Claremont, New Hampshire on the 11th to celebrate Veterans Day, “Living like pests in our country, lying, stealing, “I pledge to eradicate communists, Marxists, fascists and radical leftist thugs who cheat in elections,” he said.
He then repeated the claim that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, saying, “They will do anything, legal or illegal, to destroy Americans and the American dream.” “Threats coming from outside are much less evil, less dangerous and less serious than threats coming from within,” he said. “If you have capable, competitive, smart and strong leaders, Russia, China and North Korea will have us.” “Because they won’t want to play.” Former President Trump posted almost the same content as the speech on the social media platform ‘Truth Social’.
In response to the speech, White House spokesman Andrew Bates objected, saying, “It is imitating dictators like Hitler and Mussolini,” and “Using such words to refer to opposing forces will be perceived as terrible by American veterans.”
Italy’s Mussolini (left) and Germany’s Adolf Hitler met in Munich, Germany in June 1940. /Wikipedia
Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa also said, “On a weekend when most Americans were honoring our nation’s heroes, Trump parroted the tyrannical language of Hitler and Mussolini,” adding, “Trump thinks he can win by dividing the country.” He said.
Experts also viewed former President Trump’s speech as the language of a ‘dictator’. “That language is used by dictators to sow fear,” said Timothy Naftali, a senior fellow in international relations at Columbia University. “Dehumanizing the opposition deprives them of their constitutional right to participate safely in democracy.”
Ruth Ben-Giat, a historian at New York University, said, “Calling people ‘vermin’ was something that Hitler and Mussolini effectively used to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to commit violence.”
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2023-11-14 01:48:59
