MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Joy Reid compared the Trump administration's deportation efforts and immigration policy to the Holocaust and Hitler's Germany on Monday.
MSNBC's Joy Reid claimed on Monday that similarities between Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and the United States under President Donald Trump are undeniable.
“In study after study, as well as our lived experiences, X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division. Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories.”
Musk has enthusiastically backed AfD, an anti-immigrant party accused of minimizing Nazi crimes and using Nazi slogans.
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the Holocaust is eroding.
In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.
His comments to the hard-right Alternative for Germany party escalated efforts by the billionaire to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month.
The chair of Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, said Sunday tech billionaire Elon Musk’s call for Germans to “move beyond” the crimes of Nazi Germany is dangerous for the country’s democratic future.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it "really disgusting" and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc.
BERLIN - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it \"really disgusting\" and said it was hindering democracy in the bloc.
(RNS) — The bishop spoke truth to power. She has inherited a long and sacred lineage. The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde leads a prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins)