Celebrities blasted GOP frontrunner Donald Trump after his announcement that he would consider a temporary moratorium on Muslim migration into the U.S. in the wake of the San Bernardino terror attack.
Trump drew reactions from both sides of the political aisle after calling for a “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
On Tuesday of this week, Rosie O’Donnell retweeted the following image comparing Trump to Hitler:
@Rosie His message is clear #NeverAgain #GTFOTrump #racist pic.twitter.com/BDUBv66wKv
— Lola Starr (@LolaStarrLuna) December 9, 2015
Other celebs also condemned the Republican frontrunner more directly:
How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad. https://t.co/hFO0XmOpPH
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 8, 2015
Michael Moore seemed to suggest that Trump’s proposal for a moratorium on Muslim migration was akin to banning all women from the country:
BREAKING: Donald Trump calls for banning all women from entering the United States.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) December 8, 2015
Bette Midler took a more personal approach:
I have known and been friends with many Muslims, all my working life.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 8, 2015
I have had wonderful Muslim people working for me for over twenty years. They are smart, kind, generous and wonderful to me and my family.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 8, 2015
Donald Trump. There are no words.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) December 9, 2015
Actor and leftwing environmental activist Mark Ruffalo lumped all of Trump’s supporters with Neo-Nazis:
This can't possible be the new GOP, Neo-Nazi response to Trump's anti-Muslim proposal says it all https://t.co/VmmhTgiK65 # via HuffPostPol
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) December 8, 2015
Comedian Michael Ian Black asked his Twitter followers to compare photos of Trump’s rally audience with Bernie Sanders’, with the implication that Trump’s supporters are somehow less desirable:
Compare and contrast: Bernie crowd vs. Trump crowd. Which is the America you want? pic.twitter.com/gDa5NxZ0TD
— Michael Ian Black (@michaelianblack) December 9, 2015
Montel Williams tweeted a graphic with a paraphrase of Edmund Burke’s famous quote about the triumph of evil, which Williams seems to equate to Trump:
Any Republican who wants to win in 2016 had better stand up TONIGHT and unequivocally CONDEMN Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/krPy0NPlZg
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) December 8, 2015
Williams also accused Trump of “endangering” American Troops with his rhetoric:
Make no mistake about it. @realDonaldTrump has ENDANGERED American forces abroad. pic.twitter.com/kW2km29izg
— Montel Williams (@Montel_Williams) December 8, 2015
Piers Morgan, who won Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, called Trump’s policy position “dangerously wrong & bigoted” and included a link to his op-ed on the topic.
Dear Donald, I’m your biggest fan but your call to ban all Muslims is dangerously wrong & bigoted.
My new column: https://t.co/aUgK0ruaWJ— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 8, 2015
Music mogul Russell Simmons posted an open letter to Trump on his website. He called Trump an “amazing friend” for over 30 years, but then compared the GOP candidate to Adolf Hitler.
“My friends, both Muslims and Jews, are saying there are so many comparisons between your rap and Hitler’s, and I cannot disagree with them, Donald,” wrote Simmons.
The Def Jam Records co-founder also called on Trump to “Stop the bulls—t,” and to “stop fueling fires of hate.”
Comparisons of Trump to Hitler is nothing new among Hollywood celebrities, who have a habit of equating Republicans with the genocidal dictator who sent over six million Jews to their deaths during World War II.
In June, former Desperate Housewives co-star Eva Longoria told The Hollywood Reporter that Trump’s words equate to “emotional poison,” and said, “Hitler moved a nation with words.”
Director Spike Lee also compared Trump to Hitler two weeks ago during an interview with The Daily Beast.
While discussing Trump’s comments about closing American mosques with ties to radical Islamic terror, Lee said, “That’s like the Nazis. That’s like Hitler, Mussolini, the Axis Powers. You can’t do that!”
Muslim boxing legend Muhammad Ali released a statement on Wednesday responding to Trump’s Muslim migration moratorium, NBC News reports.
“I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people in Paris, San Bernardino, or anywhere else in the world,” said Ali. “True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion.”
We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda. They have alienated many from learning about Islam. True Muslims know or should know that it goes against our religion to try and force Islam on anybody.
Ali added: “I believe that our political leaders should use their position to bring understanding about the religion of Islam and clarify that these misguided murderers have perverted people’s views on what Islam really is.”
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