Biden camp posts graphic with Trump pictured next to Hitler
The move was both highly aggressive and part of a calculated effort to link the 45th president and the Nazi leader.
President Joe Biden’s campaign on Wednesday posted a graphic directly comparing former president Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, replete with images of the two men on each side.
The graphic, shared in a post on X, marks an even more aggressive turn in a highly charged attempt by the Biden campaign to link its likely Republican general election opponent with the Nazi leader. And it foreshadows how central the attack line is likely to be as part of the president’s efforts to win reelection.
Under the banner “TRUMP PARROTS HITLER,” the graphic lists three quotes from the 45th president next to those from Nazi leader. “Immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’” read one Trump quote. Below it read a partial quote from Hitler: “’Contamination of the blood’ by ‘an inferior race’ will lead to the fall of Germany.”
“This is not a coincidence,” the Biden campaign tweeted.
Comparing a political opponent to Hitler was once nearly verboten in political campaigns. But it has become routine for the Biden operation, which notes that historians themselves have said Trump’s rhetoric echoesthat of fascist leaders. The Biden campaign has linked Trump’s statements to Hitler multiple times in the past few weeks and has urged reporters to more closely scrutinize the former president’s speeches, particularly around immigration.
Trump has scoffed at the comparison. But he has not backed away from his comments. At a rally on Tuesday, he once again said immigrants are “destroying the blood of our country” and added that he had “never read ‘Mein Kampf” — Hitler’s manifesto.
The Biden camp didn’t let that slide. “Probably the audiobook then,” responded spokesman TJ Ducklo, over X.
Although Biden has been more cautious to draw a flat out comparison between Trump and Hitler in his public remarks, he has inched closer to doing so in recent days.
At a fundraiser Tuesday night, Biden said that the language Trump uses “reminds us of the language coming out of Germany in the ‘30s.”
“He has called those who oppose him ‘vermin.’ And, again, this weekend, he talked about ‘the blood of our country’ is being poisoned. Even conservative Republicans have spoken out against it,” Biden said.