Eric Swalwell Pushes Loony Claim Trump’s MSG Rally Was Worse Than Hitler
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) compared the Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden in 1939 favorably to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s event there on Sunday.
Many of Trump’s political opponents spent the days preceding his massive New York City rally comparing it to the one hosted by the German American Bund almost a century ago that saw speakers declare that “if George Washington were alive today, he would be friends with Adolf Hitler,” and that “the Bund is open to you, provided you are sincere, of good character, of White Gentile Stock, and an American Citizen imbued with patriotic zeal,” in addition to numerous anti-Semitic statements.
Trump’s rally ended up making headlines for a controversial comedy routine from Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” made a joke about carving watermelons with a Black friend, mused that “Jews have a hard time throwing that paper,” and complained that “these Latinos, they love making babies.”
Reacting to a clip of Hinchcliffe’s remarks on X, Swalwell deemed them enough to render the event more condemnable than even the 1939 Nazi rally.
“Trump’s MAGA Square Garden rally is making Hitler’s rally there look like a basket weaving convention,” he wrote on X.
Trump supporters on the platform mocked and chided Swalwell over his assertion. Trump senior advisor Stephen Miller argued that Swalwell’s “Hitler jokes, delivered on behalf of Kamala, are beyond sick. They are SINISTER. Vile. Hateful.”
“You dishonor the memory of 6 million murdered Jews with your venom and lies. Shame on you,” he added.
“Congresswoman Swalwell calls thousands of Americans Nazis because they don’t like inflation and unchecked immigration,” chimed in The Federalist’s Eddie Scarry.
Swalwell’s comments come as Republicans and Democrats continue to spar over the latter’s insistence that Trump is a “fascist.” Although Trump has also used the term to describe Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and various other political opponents, his supporters have argued that the rhetoric could lead to another attempt on his life.
