Education Dept. Deletes Post Likening Trump to Hitler
Education Dept. Deletes Post Likening Trump to Hitler
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The U.S. Department of Education deleted a social media video on Wednesday after users pointed out that the clip it used to hype President Donald Trump was originally a reference to Adolf Hitler.
The department's official X account posted a scene from the 2017 film "Darkest Hour," in which Gary Oldman's Winston Churchill declares, "You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!" The clip then cut to a montage of Trump smiling and waving, captioned "No one does it like us" with a tiger emoji.
In the film, the tiger Churchill is describing is Hitler's Nazi Germany — Churchill's argument that Neville Chamberlain's appeasement had failed and Britain had to fight on.
The post drew an X community note and widespread mockery before it disappeared from the account run by Education Secretary Linda McMahon's department.
Timeline
The Education Department's X account posts the "Darkest Hour" clip with the "No one does it like us" caption.
X users and a community note flag that the "tiger" in the scene refers to Hitler. The note reads: "This clip is from the film Darkest Hour, and the 'tiger' in this clip refers to Adolf Hitler."
The post is gone from the department's page. The Independent reports it has asked the department for comment.
Reactions
"Not only is this not a real Churchill quote, the 'tiger' Churchill is referring to is Adolf Hitler," one X user wrote, according to The Independent.
"Aside from the fact that this video nakedly compares Trump to Adolf Hitler what does it have to do with education?" another wrote. "I guess whoever is running the department's social media could use some, maybe that's it."
A third user called it "beautifully poetic" that the department did not recognize what the scene was about.
Politics professor Matt McManus posted that the "Department of Education in dire need of education," per Raw Story. Journalist Benjamin Weiss asked, "Isn't the 'tiger' Churchill is referring to in this clip Nazi Germany?"
Writer Pedro Gonzalez argued the choice was deliberate, posting that "the right plays this game where it winks at white supremacists and even fascists."
MeidasTouch's account wrote: "YIKES: The Trump regime tried to make Trump look tough. Instead, the Department of Education appears to have accidentally compared him to Hitler."
What's Next
The department had not publicly explained the post or responded to requests for comment as of Thursday morning. There is no indication anyone has been disciplined over it.
More
Trump has invited historical comparisons before. The Independent notes New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan recount in their book "Regime Change" an Oval Office exchange in which Trump claimed to have greater global reach than "Napoleon. Hitler. Mao. Stalin," adding that those men "maintained power though fear" and asking, "Who would ever do a thing like that? Right?"
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