Donald Trumpβs closing message to voters during a campaign rally Wednesday in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, was to insist, βIβm not Hitler.β
βFor the past nine years, Kamala and her party have called us racists, bigots, fascists, deplorables, irredeemables, Nazis, and theyβve called me Hitler,β the former president said.
Trump seemed perturbed about being linked to Nazis in recent weeks, which he blamed on Democrats, including his presidential rival, Kamala Harris, even though recent anecdotes about him praising Hitler and admiring Nazi generals came from his former White House chief of staff John Kelly.
In attempting to put the Nazi comparisons aside in hopes of winning the hearts and minds of voters, Trump told the rallygoers that his father said to βnever use the word Nazi and never use the word Hitler,β then griped: βNow weβre called Nazis, and Iβm called Hitler. Iβm not Hitler.β
Since Trumpβs relationship with the truth is at best estranged, itβs no surprise many commenters on X, formerly Twitter, were skeptical about his not-a-Nazi defence.
And though the popular βSure, Janβ meme wasnβt used extensively, most of the responses could be considered a variation of it.