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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad

Trump officials’ ‘No one does it like us’ post backfires with Nazi Germany comparison

  • The Department of Education deleted a social media post that inadvertently compared President Donald Trump's administration to Nazi Germany.
  • The department's official X account posted a clip from the movie Darkest Hour captioned "No one does it like us," alongside a tiger emoji.
  • In the movie clip, Winston Churchill refers to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime as the tiger with which Britain could not reason.
  • Social media users quickly criticized the department for misinterpreting the movie quote and accidentally likening Trump to Hitler.
  • The department removed the post from its page following the swift public backlash.

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Trump’s Education Department deletes post that compares his administration to Nazi Germany

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