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BumRushDaShow

(165,853 posts)
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:13 PM Sep 2025

'Accurate': Jasmine Crockett Refuses to Walk Back Comparing Trump to Hitler When Confronted On CNN

Source: MEDIAite

Sep 21st, 2025, 2:00 pm


Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) refused to walk back her comments comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, saying on Sunday that she has used “accurate language” in the past when comparing the commander-in-chief to the man who led Nazi Germany. She then doubled down on her claim, saying the president continues to use the Hitler “playbook.”

Crockett, during on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, was shown several clips by co-host Dana Bash of her making inflammatory remarks, including calling President Trump a “wannabe Hitler.” Bash pressed Crockett on whether she had a “responsibility as an elected official not to raise the temperature, but rather lower the temperature,” especially when you consider conservative activist Charlie Kirk was just shot and killed for his political beliefs.

The Texas congresswoman declined to distance herself from her past comments. Instead, she doubled down and said the way Trump has acted lately, including celebrating Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension from ABC, make it fair to compare the USA to the Third Reich.

“I think that my responsibility is to be transparent and to be honest, and the reality is that we are living in a time in which this administration and this regime is not interested in making sure that people understand history,” Crockett said. “We need to understand why they are so problematic. And so I am using that language because it is accurate language. When we see the consolidation of power, when we see them trying to chill speech of jokesters, when we’re seeing all of this, that is the playbook out of Hitler. And I won’t deny it.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/accurate-jasmine-crockett-refuses-to-walk-back-comparing-trump-to-hitler-when-confronted-on-cnn/

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'Accurate': Jasmine Crockett Refuses to Walk Back Comparing Trump to Hitler When Confronted On CNN (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2025 OP
He's copying the Hitler Playbook chapter and verse Coldwater Sep 2025 #1
during his first term popsdenver Sep 2025 #38
He really is ck4829 Sep 2025 #46
Good for her Marthe48 Sep 2025 #2
Thank God!! littlemissmartypants Sep 2025 #11
Yes, that occurs to me on a regular basis PatSeg Sep 2025 #36
👌 F's to give. Hell yes. "Temperature" "toned it down" are RW talking points. underpants Sep 2025 #3
Why shouldn't it start with THEM??? calimary Sep 2025 #7
Right!? Nt LittleGirl Sep 2025 #9
Yeah. Jan. 6, McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder (Dr. Tiller), Buffalo, El Paso Walmart... underpants Sep 2025 #19
ding. AllaN01Bear Sep 2025 #25
Absolutely! ck4829 Sep 2025 #44
Bam SuzyandPuffpuff Sep 2025 #4
Well done! ybbor Sep 2025 #5
Maybe Dana can spare a moment to fret about dim donnie's comments about Biden's cancer. Grokenstein Sep 2025 #6
This is why I quit CNN . . . AverageOldGuy Sep 2025 #8
Yep...long ago after the fake ass STAGED CNN Trump town hall. Never been back.... Bengus81 Sep 2025 #54
Hitler used trains now Trump is using planes. Botany Sep 2025 #10
That is a really good slogan. 'Hitler used trains, Trump uses planes'. travelingthrulife Sep 2025 #53
Good for her. People may not know the meaning of "autocrat" or "authoritarian." So--Hitler. Timeflyer Sep 2025 #12
Trump was born not long after Hitler's death. Reincarnation possibility to some I guess. twodogsbarking Sep 2025 #13
His father got arrested at a Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens underpants Sep 2025 #22
And sometimes Trump says his father was from Germany. thought crime Sep 2025 #30
....and claimed his ancestry was Swedish. NM Grins Sep 2025 #40
Hmm... Something to think about ck4829 Sep 2025 #45
truth Evolve Dammit Sep 2025 #14
Nice kacekwl Sep 2025 #15
If and when the American democracy is restored, I hope she will rise to a very high level in Government. She's a gem. NNadir Sep 2025 #16
Thank You Congresswoman Crockett Blue Owl Sep 2025 #17
She'd make a great president or vice president. byronius Sep 2025 #18
"There is no such thing as white privilege" - Bullshit! enigmania Sep 2025 #20
What's the big deal? JD Vance did the same thing. edbermac Sep 2025 #21
Like hitler Timewas Sep 2025 #23
Refuse to see the comparison at your own peril. Buddyzbuddy Sep 2025 #24
She is a straight up evolves Sep 2025 #26
Just following JD Vance's example. Norrrm Sep 2025 #27
Yep ck4829 Sep 2025 #47
Uh, why is it only the Democrats' supposed job to "lower the temperature"? Beartracks Sep 2025 #28
Right? ck4829 Sep 2025 #42
AMEN!!!!!! If you don't wanna be called a Hitler wannabe, Jack Valentino Sep 2025 #29
Indeed! ck4829 Sep 2025 #43
A prime candidate for Governor or US Senator from Texas !!!! Jack Valentino Sep 2025 #31
Bash is a shill. Joinfortmill Sep 2025 #32
She totally is ck4829 Sep 2025 #48
I wish we had more politicians like Jasmine Crockett! Emile Sep 2025 #33
She is correct malaise Sep 2025 #34
Agreed ck4829 Sep 2025 #49
The way I see it... Ohioboy Sep 2025 #35
Spot on! ck4829 Sep 2025 #50
Hey Dana Bash....Trump was at the Kirk rally saying how much his HATES his "opponents" Bengus81 Sep 2025 #37
THANK GOD!!!! She didn't back down!!! Grins Sep 2025 #39
K&R. She is speaking the truth. ck4829 Sep 2025 #41
Keep it up OLDMDDEM Sep 2025 #51
Greg Olear does a little breakdown GoneOffShore Sep 2025 #52

Marthe48

(22,734 posts)
2. Good for her
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:20 PM
Sep 2025

One difference that might play in our favor. hitler wasn't a broken down demented old man when he had power. traitor felon is a broken down demented old man who is close to the end of his life on this planet. Even with the best health care in the world, he won't live forever.

PatSeg

(52,215 posts)
36. Yes, that occurs to me on a regular basis
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:03 AM
Sep 2025

The main difference between Trump and the many strongmen he admires and tries to emulate is he is very old and unhealthy. He has so little time to do the vast damage he dreams of.

underpants

(194,967 posts)
3. 👌 F's to give. Hell yes. "Temperature" "toned it down" are RW talking points.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:23 PM
Sep 2025

Screw them. Tone what down? The facts she just spelled out? F you.
Republicans have been goading and fanning the flames for decades with many actions deaths injuries as a result.

calimary

(89,053 posts)
7. Why shouldn't it start with THEM???
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:54 PM
Sep 2025

They’re the ones turning up the temperature. EVERY time they stand up for him or deny that he’s done anything wrong or that he lies full-out, like a snake in the sun.

It’s our right to voice objections. And WE’RE the ones who tend to do so without using physical violence.

underpants

(194,967 posts)
19. Yeah. Jan. 6, McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Scott Roeder (Dr. Tiller), Buffalo, El Paso Walmart...
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:49 PM
Sep 2025

etc.

ybbor

(1,710 posts)
5. Well done!
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:26 PM
Sep 2025

We need more like her! She should be leading the resistance, not the feckless Schumer and Jeffries. “Strongly worded letters” and tldr statements aren’t ringing true with the public. Call a spade a spade, as she does! Love her fearlessness!!!

Grokenstein

(6,246 posts)
6. Maybe Dana can spare a moment to fret about dim donnie's comments about Biden's cancer.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:47 PM
Sep 2025

Ha ha ha, who am I kidding?

AverageOldGuy

(3,364 posts)
8. This is why I quit CNN . . .
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 03:56 PM
Sep 2025

. . . and am close to leaving MSNBC.


Bash pressed Crockett on whether she had a “responsibility as an elected official not to raise the temperature, but rather lower the temperature,” especially when you consider conservative activist Charlie Kirk was just shot and killed for his political beliefs.


I am so damn tired of this "lower the temperature" and "both sides" bullshit. WE DEMOCRATS DID NOT START THIS FIGHT.

I'm really beginning to wonder is there is a single commentator, anchor, or whateverthefuck you want to call them who has studied the history of Hitler's rise to power.

Botany

(76,420 posts)
10. Hitler used trains now Trump is using planes.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:04 PM
Sep 2025

ICE IS DEPORTING PEOPLE TO AFRICA ON NEARLY UN-TRACKABLE MILITARY FLIGHTS

How many of these deportees to either Africa or El Salvador are already dead?

https://democraticunderground.com/10143534143





And meanwhile Trump is having banners of himself put up and Washington D.C. that are 4 stories
Tall and they are packing a stadium in Arizona for America’s own Horst Wessel aka Charlie Kirk to make him a Deity for the MAGA crowd. America is all but finished. What was the deportee’s crime? They were dark skinned.

travelingthrulife

(4,463 posts)
53. That is a really good slogan. 'Hitler used trains, Trump uses planes'.
Fri Sep 26, 2025, 09:36 AM
Sep 2025

With pics of the ICE goons and the statement:

"ICE IS DEPORTING PEOPLE TO AFRICA ON NEARLY UN-TRACKABLE MILITARY FLIGHTS"

underpants

(194,967 posts)
22. His father got arrested at a Nazi rally at Madison Square Gardens
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:56 PM
Sep 2025

He kept a book in Hitler’s speeches on his bed stand
His signature LOOKS like a Klan rally.


thought crime

(1,228 posts)
30. And sometimes Trump says his father was from Germany.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:17 PM
Sep 2025

And Trump was born not long after Hitler's death...

NNadir

(37,312 posts)
16. If and when the American democracy is restored, I hope she will rise to a very high level in Government. She's a gem.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:24 PM
Sep 2025

byronius

(7,905 posts)
18. She'd make a great president or vice president.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:38 PM
Sep 2025

Top of my list.

Crockett/Newsom or Newsom/Crockett, I’m onboard.

edbermac

(16,399 posts)
21. What's the big deal? JD Vance did the same thing.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 04:52 PM
Sep 2025

The claim was true. In a 2016 text message to his former law school roommate, Vance wrote: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical a**hole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-vance-quote/

Beartracks

(14,369 posts)
28. Uh, why is it only the Democrats' supposed job to "lower the temperature"?
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:08 PM
Sep 2025

More to the point: Why are Democrats the only ones who are defending democracy and the Constitution?

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Jack Valentino

(4,375 posts)
29. AMEN!!!!!! If you don't wanna be called a Hitler wannabe,
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:32 PM
Sep 2025

QUIT ACTING like a Hitler wannabe, DIAPER DON !!!

Ohioboy

(3,876 posts)
35. The way I see it...
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:05 AM
Sep 2025

It's up to Trump to not act like Hitler.

It's up to Crocket to point out when he does.

It's up to Trump's supporters to shut the F up and stop acting like whiney little babies.

Bengus81

(9,826 posts)
37. Hey Dana Bash....Trump was at the Kirk rally saying how much his HATES his "opponents"
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 10:49 AM
Sep 2025

Does that sound like lowering the temp? WHY is the onus always on Democrats Dana? Got a fucking answer for that?

Grins

(9,246 posts)
39. THANK GOD!!!! She didn't back down!!!
Mon Sep 22, 2025, 03:02 PM
Sep 2025

Tired of Democrats APOLOGIZING when they have nothing to apologize for.

Here’s my comeback: “Yeah; I said it! Prove me wrong!”

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