It’s Official: With “Vermin,” Trump Is Now Using Straight-up Nazi Talk He’s telling us what he will do to his political enemies if he’s president again. Is anyone listening?
I feel pretty safe in saying that we can now stop giving him the benefit of that particular doubt. His use—twice; once on social media, and then repeated in a speech—of the word “vermin” to describe his political enemies cannot be an accident. That’s an unusual word choice. It’s not a smear that one just grabs out of the air. And it appears in history chiefly in one context, and one context only.
I’m no fan of Trump, but “vermin” really is an out of pocket insult. I’ve also got no idea how insulting someone is Nazi behavior. Y’all just want a bad look for your opposition.
It’s not the specific word, but the entire context. Here’s the Truth Social post:
“In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American dream.”
This is exactly the same comparison Hitler made to his own political enemies. It’s not like it’s a particularly common word these days, either, so it’s hard to see how it’d enter his limited vocabulary by other means.
I stopped clicking on articles about things Trump says… Am reminded why. The full quote is always an order of magnitude worse than what you’d assume from the headline. Literally impossible to exaggerate the toxic spittle that comes out of this man’s mouth.
He literally cheated on the election himself, and what kind of freedom is he proposing where a party’s opposition should be targeted?
You can’t call to exterminate People, you CAN call to exterminate vermin.
Does the fact that hitler called the jews vermin clear up anything for you?
I’m sure he used all kinds of insults. That doesn’t give him a monopoly on language.