Al Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler's Third Reich

Former Vice President Al Gore compared the Trump administration to Adolf Hitler s Nazi Party while speaking at a conditions change event in San Francisco on Monday Gore was delivering the keynote speech at a science museum to kick off the city s Context Week event when he explained the Trump administration was trying to create their own preferred version of reality I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler s Third Reich to any other movement Gore reported It was uniquely evil full stop I get it But there are major lessons from the history of that emergent evil Gore then went on to cite what German philosophers had called their moral autopsy of Hitler s Third Reich following the end of World War II CHRIS MATTHEWS SAYS TRUMP IS DOING THE SAME THING HITLER DID IN THE HOLOCAUST WITH ABREGO GARCIA It was J rgen Habermas 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 stated He described how the Nazis and I quote again attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false End quote The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality Gore then launched into an attack against what he asserted were the views of the Trump administration on weather change and efforts to undo Democratic policies They say the situation emergency is a hoax invented by the Chinese to destroy American manufacturing Gore explained of the Trump administration They say coal is clean They say wind turbines cause cancer They say sea-level rise just creates more beachfront property PHOTOS BIDEN'S AMBITIOUS STATE GOALS GO DOWN IN LITERAL FLAMES BY POPULAR AMERICAN BEACH We have to deal with the democracy emergency in order to solve the environment emergency the former vice president declared Gore isn t the first politician who tried to compare Trump to Hitler During the presidential campaign selected of Trump s political rivals and several liberal media outlets invoked comparisons between the president and Hitler and other fascist leaders