‘Guardians’ Director Plays Hitler Card 8 Times Vs. Trump
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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Another day, another lefty head pops, revealing nothing inside. This is fun.
What a fricking idiot. Tell me a single thing he has done which is “fascist”. Just one.
Pretty sure we’ve seen peak Guardians anyway, and Marvel for that matter.
Nice, another comic book franchise I can ignore.
Deadpool is it.
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/
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.
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.
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.
Self-awareness is not their strong point.
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.
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.
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.”