Donald Trump shrugs off comparisons to Hitler
CBC News | Posted: December 8, 2015 4:51 PM | Last Updated: December 8, 2015
Plan to bar Muslims from entering U.S. brings criticism, comparisons to Nazi leader
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shrugged off comparisons to Hitler on Tuesday after he called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."
In a phone interview with George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America, Trump was characteristically blunt about such criticisms.
Trump referred here to Franklin Roosevelt's ordered internment of 100,000 Japanese-American civilians during the Second World War.
On MSNBC, the subject of Japanese internment also came up.
The interviews on four major American morning news shows came after Trump on Monday called for the ban on Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
This prompted many comparisons to the Nazi leader Adolph Hilter in news media and social media.
One of the most blatant was the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News and its headline pun on Hitler's title "fuehrer."