Director James Gunn ended 2017 by saying he didn’t care if insulting President Donald Trump might lose him fans.
“In my years on social networking I have never spoken out politically,” Gun tweeted. “But we’re in a national crisis with an incompetent President forging a full-blown attack on facts and journalism in the style of Hitler and Putin.”
The man behind the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise just doubled down on his vow. How? By joining the ranks of Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K. and Tom Green who previously compared Trump to Hitler.
Here’s the Tweet Gunn shared to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day Saturday. He followed it up with seven more messages hammering home the Trump/Hitler meme.
Note: He pinned the first Tweet in the series. That means anyone who visits his Twitter page will find that message at the top.
#HolocaustMemorialDay Today we remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of brutality. The seeds that Trump is planting today are the same seeds Hitler planted long before he began murdering innocent people. I am not saying Trump and Hitler are the same. THREAD
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
Here’s the first message in the thread, following by seven follow-up Tweets.
2 But I am saying their tactics in their first years of power ARE. Hitler continuously discredited facts by saying “lügenpresse” (lying press) just as Trump continuously discredits facts by saying “fake news.” Neither has ever taken responsibility for his own lies or mistakes.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
2 But I am saying their tactics in their first years of power ARE. Hitler continuously discredited facts by saying “lügenpresse” (lying press) just as Trump continuously discredits facts by saying “fake news.” Neither has ever taken responsibility for his own lies or mistakes.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
3 I am not alone in this belief: the Anne Frank Centre has pointed out that there are “‘alarming parallels’ between Trump’s America and Hitler’s Germany.” They list the following similarities:
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
4 Both Trump and Hitler have endorsed police brutality, demonized religious & ethnic minorities, expressed belief congress should change its rules to give them more power, and exploited youth at rallies, in addition to having discredited the media and facts.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
5 I’ll add: both Trump and Hitler use their “autobiographies” to tout their expertise, and their policies are rarely specific and almost always general proclamations of “we’re gonna make things amazing!”
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
6 I do not want to use the deaths of innocent people in the Holocaust for political purposes. But I also think if any of those people saw what was happening today, the behavior would be considered familiar at the very least.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
7 And, of course, there are DIFFERENCES between America now & Germany then. We’re an older country and democracy is more deeply entrenched. We aren’t recovering from wartime trauma. And Hitler’s popularity rose whereas Trump’s has diminished since he took power. So there is HOPE.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
8 As Anne Frank wrote, ‘What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.” Stand up for love. Stand up for justice. Stand up for facts. Don’t ignore history. Love to you all and love to those whose lives and love we lost. #HolocaustMemorialDay
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) January 27, 2018
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Earlier this month, Gunn offered $100,000 to President Trump’s favorite charity if the world leader stepped on the scale … again. The admitted “girther” thinks Dr. Ronny Jackson lied about Trump’s real weight. Here’s CNN on Dr. Jackson:
He was tapped to be a physician for the White House during former President George W. Bush’s tenure in 2006, while Jackson was deployed in Iraq, according to his Navy biography … Barack Obama appointed Jackson as his own presidential physician, a role that has continued under Trump.
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Oh please. He just described every politician, ever. What a hysterical loon.
What is it they say about fascism? Oh yeah – always descending on the right but landing on the left. Gunn probably sleeps in his brown shirt every night!
And brown pants.
It was Tom Wolfe who noted fascism is always descending on America but only lands in Europe.
Oh, well…so long, “Guardians” movies. Why do these jerks go OUT OF THEIR WAY to throw away half of their audience?
A question often asked, but never answered. I suppose they think they are saving the country, but from what? Trump is not and never has been Hitler. No one has been rounded up and sent to the gas chambers. These guys are just way over the top and don’t realize it. They are just going with the flow of the people they know. They think tjhey are leaders, but they really are the ultimate in lackey followers. They would all do well to read Eric Hoffer’s “True Believer”.
It’s a psychological dysfunction. Some people just addicted to being outraged and angry.
I dunno, those mass torchlight marches down Pennsylvania Avenue are pretty hypnotic and I hear the death camp construction in on time and under budget.
He described Nancy Pelosi, not Trump.
Trump was hardly my first pick, but hot damn, watching these Leftards go completely nuts is so much fun. If Trump runs in 2020, I’m going to work very hard for his election. The thought of these psychologically inferior humans having to face another four years of Trump would be so delicious.
Throws Marvel onto the grill with his Dallas Cowboys jersey.
I stopped watching Marvel movies when they took away Cap’s guns.
Dude, Cap never carried guns after WW2, unless it was in the 1950s (never seen those issues), but we all know now that wasn’t the real Cap, was it? 🙂
These great presidential endorsements keep rolling in. MAGA!
Yawn.
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First progressive hate-mongers tried to pin the accusation of rapist, groper, misogynist on Candidate Trump but that didn’t stick because Crooked’s husband is a bona fide serial rapist and the more they emphasized that, the more heat Crooked got.
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Besides, that “they let you” qualifier always made whatever Citizen Trump did many years ago consensual.
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That didn’t stick because, well, the facts and all.
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Then the hate-mongers tried to pin the epithets Hitler, Nazi, Fascist, etc. on President Trump.
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That didn’t stick because the AntiFa showed what real Nazis do, even if they attempted a diversionary re-branding and, well, the facts and all.
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Then they trotted out the Russia, Putin, Commie traitor meme.
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That didn’t stick because, well, the facts and all.
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Then they tried Crazy, Chaos, Mentally Ill.
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That didn’t last, because none of his actions are crazy, you know, facts and all.
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Now they are back to “Nazi”.
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How many minutes do you think that will last? Because, well, the facts and all.
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The death spasms of a dinosaur like the progressive party are always strong, but the end result is always certain.
They’ll be back. The Republican Party will see to that.
Just read that the progressive party is essentially bankrupt.
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Are you suggesting the Republicans will loan the progressive party money or something?
What an historically illiterate nitwit. It was obviuosly an excellent policy the author had of not commenting politically previously. He should have stuck to that program and avoided beclowning himself in public. “I’m not saying Trump is Hitler, BUT…” I suppose if we go to point 5, we can say that Obama was “just like Hitler”. Dreams from my Father and “Change we can believe in”. What a buffoon.
One of the most popular men on TV, Johnny Carson, made it a point to keep his political opinions to himself. Too bad Gunn couldn’t follow the example.
And, yes, he is historically illiterate. Not to mention wrong on the facts, unless one counts telling the truth about radical Islam is “demonizing” them.
https://thewriterinblack.com/2018/01/19/trump-vs-hitler-a-1-year-retrospective/
Thanks for informing me; no more Gunn in my future.
Wanna see a real Nazi, Gunn? Look in a mirror! Wanna see what a Nazi city looks like? Check out Hollywood!
Wanna see a Nazi ‘Brownshirt’ group in action? Go watch the Anti-fa.
Damn.
Mr. Gunn knows movies.
But Gunn does not know history; nor does he appreciate his movie fans.
Scratch another ticket buying fan.
Make this your conservative pledge:
Resist decadent Hollywood.
Pirate movies on-line for free.
And enjoy a sometime guilty pleasure – and then be smug by not paying for it.
Win-win.
On police brutality: “They bring a knife; we bring a gun”; “Get into their faces”; “Punch back twice as hard”
On Congress ceding power to the Executive: “I have a phone and a pen”; “I’ll have more flexibility after the election”
On exploiting youth at rallies: “Trayvon Martin could have been my son”
Was James Gunn at all concerned about these statements?
Hearing a dog whistle that isn’t being blown….by Trump, that is.
But Team Louie is wailing away on that thing.
Why can’t H’wood exercise Gunn Control when it’s one of theirs?
Sweet Ecstacy of St. Teresa, if Trump were even 1/4 as bad as Gunn claims he is, Li’l Jimmie would be already reduced to directing Louisiana labor camp productions of “My Fair Lady.”
Trump is an evil dictator who is creating jobs!
He is creating a dictator state by tearing up miles of government red tape!!
He cut out taxes!!!!!!
It’s weird that the political faction that wants to reduce government power is the party of Fascism.
Strange days indeed…..
Most peculiar, mama.
It is stale intellectual laziness to compare Trump to Hitler. I’m not particularly fond of him, but to take his boorish personality and equate it to rounding up humans into gas chambers is so absurd that everything that comes after must be dismissed as equally farcical.
Self-awareness is not their strong point.
Because they cannot understand the arguments of the other side in the debate, these people assume their political opponents are evil. When the other side wins, they then infer that evil is winning and this is what it felt like when _______ (fill in the blank with the most evil thing you know about). They don’t actually illustrate their statements by citing actual policies or actions that are Hitlerian, and they can’t quite figure out why 65 million or so Americans voted for him. These poor sops think they are being virtuous when they are actually revealing themselves to be staggeringly ignorant, pompous, and venal.
Well, we can expect the next Jame Gunn movie to suck.
And he can expect to lose audience.
Regular as clockwork: get woke, go broke.
Sad.
This movie person missed it when Obama was hugging Farakkhan, was having advising sessions with Rev Al Sharpton, and sat in a racist church for years overflowing with Jew hatred.
Progs are so dense, it’s amazing, can’t see who they are for the world. No wonder movies suck so bad anymore, they are written by idiots.
James, I wouldn’t be looking to the Ann Frank Center for fair an balanced assessment of Donald Trump.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450548/anne-frank-center-mutual-respect-disgraces-namesakes-memory
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/anne-frank-center/524055/
Nice, another comic book franchise I can ignore.
Deadpool is it.
Pretty sure we’ve seen peak Guardians anyway, and Marvel for that matter.
What a fricking idiot. Tell me a single thing he has done which is “fascist”. Just one.
Another day, another lefty head pops, revealing nothing inside. This is fun.