Hollywood actor and Sen. Bernie Sanders surrogate John Cusack compared President Donald Trump to Germany’s Nazi-era chancellor Adolf Hitler in a recent interview.
“Hitler sort of stole from the avant-garde left,” Cusack said the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “He hated the message of the avant-garde left because it was anti-war, but he understood that politics was the new art and that art and politics were going to be infused. You can see Trump sort of doing the same thing.”
“The first time he tore a child away from their mother’s arms and put them in a cage, this wasn’t a reality TV show anymore. This was real fascism,” he added.
Cusack’s remarks come after the Being John Malkovich star referred to President Trump is “the anti-Christ for dummies.”
“Trump is basically a test run for true evil: the antichrist for dummies,” he wrote on Twitter in August. “The gods saying We’re going to give you a version so obvious with such Unimaginable Stupididty & abject cretinism & sloth – to show how decadent & empty yr culture & institutions have become – change.”
Trump is basically a test run for true evil: the anti christ for dummies –
The gods saying
We’re going to give you a version so obvious with such
Unimaginable Stupididty & abject cretinism & sloth – to show how decadent & empty yr culture & institutions have become – change— John Cusack (@johncusack) August 13, 2020
In July 2019, Cusack was forced to apologize for tweeting an anti-Semitic cartoon and then deleting it.
The image showed a blue Star of David above a hand pushing down on a group of people accompanied by a quote frequently misattributed to the philosopher Voltaire: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Cusack added, “Follow the money.” The quotation is a reworking of one from American white nationalist and Holocaust denier Kevin Alfred Strom.
Cusack initially defended the tweet against social media critics, accusing Israel of atrocities against Palestinians. He then blamed a “bot” for the post before deleting it.
“Made a mistake retweeting that — as I said — and sorry,” he later tweeted.
On Monday and Tuesday, Cusack went on a series of rant-like tweets harassing and mocking President Trump:
210 thousand dead – a deranged trump Tried to dramatize Covid as a two day reality show cliffhanger success story – a Mussolini puppet show
— John Cusack (@johncusack) October 5, 2020
Trump is not a Mussolini
The proper comp Is Idi Amin –— John Cusack (@johncusack) October 6, 2020