‘Transparent’ Director Jill Soloway Wins Emmy, Compares ‘Dangerous Monster’ Trump to Hitler

‘He’s a Complete Dangerous Monster’

Jill Soloway Sunday night won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and after delivering a heart-warming speech onstage, offered a few words about Donald Trump backstage.

“Jews were otherized in Nazi Germany to gain political power for Hitler, and right now Donald Trump is doing the same thing,” said Soloway, who is Jewish, The Hollywood Reporter reports. 

“He’s otherizing people. He calls women pigs if they don’t look like beauty pageant contestants. He blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems. He makes fun of disabled people. This is otherizing with a capital O. And has been used in our history before to start and win wars, and he needs to be called out every chance he gets for being one of the most dangerous monsters to ever approach our lifetimes.”

“He’s a complete dangerous monster and any moment that I have to call Trump out for being an inheritor to Hitler, I will.”

Transparent star Jeffrey Tambor, who also won an Emmy Sunday night for his work on the hit show, echoed Soloway’s critique of the Republican nominee. 

“By the way, ditto, ditto and ditto on everything you said,” Tamor said.

Fox News editorialized this final sentence in their report: “This, just one of the many attacks on Trump tonight at the 68th Emmys.”

Here’s Soloway’s acceptance speech:

 

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