Shocking statement as Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the Trump administration to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party while speaking at a climate change event Monday in San Francisco.

Gore was delivering the keynote address at a science museum to kick off the city’s Climate Week when he said the Trump administration was “trying to create its own preferred version of reality.”

“I understand very well why it is a mistake to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” Gore said. “He was uniquely evil, period. I understand that. But there are important lessons from the history of that emerging evil.”

Gore then cited what German philosophers had called their “moral autopsy” of Hitler’s Third Reich after the end of World War II.

“It was [Jürgen] Habermas’s mentor, Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,’” Gore said. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘attacked the very heart of the distinction between the true and the false.’ End quote. The Trump administration insists on trying to create its own preferred version of reality.”

Gore then launched an attack on what he claimed were the Trump administration’s views on climate change and efforts to undo Democratic policies.

“They say the climate crisis is a hoax invented by the Chinese to destroy American manufacturing,” Gore said referring to the Trump administration. “They say coal is clean. They say wind turbines cause cancer. They say sea level rise just creates more oceanfront property.”

“We have to address the crisis of democracy to solve the climate crisis,” said the former vice president.

Gore is not the first politician to try to compare Trump to Hitler.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, some of Trump’s political rivals and some liberal media outlets invoked comparisons between the president and Hitler and other fascist leaders.

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