‘Churchill Fought Fascists. Trump Retweets Them’: Mike Huckabee Mocked for Comparing Trump to Churchill
“Trump is adored by Nazis and regards them as ‘very fine people’. Churchill vowed to kill every last one.”
Mike Huckabee is being mocked for a tweet he posted comparing President Donald Trump to a British icon, the late Winston Churchill. As Prime Minister, Churchill is credited with defeating the Nazis. As President, Trump is seen as supporting their followers.
Huckabee, an ordained minister, former Arkansas governor, and twice-failed GOP presidential candidate, suggested the comparison in large part because of Trump’s refusal to adjust his offensive behavior and his refusal to back down when attacked or attacking.
Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press. Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness. But unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn’t retreat. We had a Chamberlain for 8 yrs; in @realDonaldTrump we have a Churchill.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) December 26, 2017
Many responded via Twitter, mocking Huckabee, who is father to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
One tweet that went viral, as The New York Times noted, came from Norwegian lawmaker Kristian Tonning Riise.
Sure. Churchill served his country 55 years in parliament, 31 years as a minister and 9 as pm. He was present in 15 battles and received 14 medals of bravery. He was one of historys most gifted orators and won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writing. Totally same thing…
— Kristian Tonning Riise (@KristianRiise) December 26, 2017
The Times also notes historians disagree strongly with Huckabee’s comparison of Trump with the late, great world leader.Â
Susan Pedersen, professor of British history at Columbia University told The Times the comparison is “ridiculous.” She added that Churchill “had real intellectual and political strengths: He was intelligent, literate, well-versed in history, had long experience in government, and knew what he stood for.”
The inference is Trump does not.
Others on Twitter tore apart Huckabee’s claim.
Right wing pundit Bill Kristol:
You know who really hated Churchill, precisely when he and Britain stood alone in 1940 and 1941 against Nazi German? The America First Committee. What did Donald Trump chose to call his foreign policy? America First. https://t.co/ISYd3CaQ4u
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 26, 2017
GOP strategist, advisor to McCain presidential campaign:
Comparing Donald Trump to Winston Churchill establishes Mike Huckabee as a history ignoramus for the ages. What a clown.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) December 26, 2017
More:
To make the analogy perfect, though, you’d have to imagine that Churchill was Hitler’s preferred candidate for prime minister in 1940 https://t.co/C88bcmFGhU
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 26, 2017
Trump is adored by Nazis and regards them as “very fine people”. Churchill vowed to kill every last one. Churchill fought fascists. Trump retweets them.
Huckabee here is competing for the dumbest statement of the year in a year full of them. https://t.co/AMROCAQSIn
— Reasonable People (@LOLBeReasonable) December 27, 2017
I want to immediately apologize to the United Kingdom for Mike Huckabee’s outrageous insult of your former prime minister, Huckabee is what you guys refer to as a “bell end” and he doesn’t really speak for us https://t.co/EKOvbXL2zA
— Jason Linkins (@dceiver) December 27, 2017
“We will fight them on the beaches, bone spurs permitting…..” https://t.co/rMJiAHcxpl
— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) December 26, 2017
Mike Huckabee, who supported Josh Duggar after he confessed to serial molesting his sisters, compares Orange Demon Baby tRump to Winston Churchill.
This has been Year 2017. May it burn upon the junk pile of garbage that it became until the end of time…
— Jill Mertinke (@Jillie1949) December 27, 2017
Comparing the morally empty, intellectually vacuous, self-serving Trump to Winston Churchill underscores how desperate his enablers are to hold onto power. Huckabee’s nonsense should be remembered as a vivid example of Trump cultists’ comfort in abandoning honesty & truth. https://t.co/3wXMbhKfnf
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) December 27, 2017
Y’all remember when Winston Churchill had Russian hookers pee on him, compliments of Joseph Stalin? Mike Huckabee is a moron #MAGA
— Shada Escapee (@ShomahKhoobi) December 26, 2017
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