Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pushed back on those condemning the former president’s choice of “vermin” to attack his opponents, telling the Washington Post that critics “who try to make that ridiculous assertion are clearly snowflakes grasping for anything because they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome and their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.” (Cheung later clarified to the Post that he meant to say their “sad, miserable existence” instead of their “entire existence.”)
I mean, when I read Trumps quote, before I had seen any mention of nazis or Hitler in relation to his quote, I literally paused to myself and thought “that… sounds like a Hitler quote”
And 15 seconds later, I saw the comments comparing it to actual Hitler quotes.
There is no grasping. The very first, uninfluenced, impression of his quote was that it sounded like Hitler’s words.