“Similarities to what happened in Germany, and what’s happening now in America are just undeniable….Trump and Stephen Miller, his former director of speechwriting, depict non-white immigrants as carriers of deadly diseases who are violent terrorists. Trump was returned to the presidency after staging a coup, and has exerted control of media or social media in order to parrot anti-immigrant vitriol and openly hateful anti-LGBTQ language, which is what Meta just did….There are the business leaders who pay him, fund him, and think they can control him. And then there was this startling image of Trump’s biggest paymaster Elon Musk, that many likened to a Nazi salute….I’m not saying that Donald Trump, his administration or his supporters want to exterminate millions of people in death camps but just ask yourself, who do they blame right now for all of our problems? It’s certainly not the greedy corporations or failed Republican policies.”
— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The ReidOut, January 27, 2025.
