Anne Coulter’s hot and cold support of Republican presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump (R-N.Y), went off the deep end recently. She seriously compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 until 1955, and arguably one of the greatest leaders in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Trump declared his bid for the presidency on June 15, 2015, and Coulter was gung-ho in support of him. She’s gone from calling Trump a mental case to writing a book about him, and everything in between since, though.
Coulter says Trump’s delusional at times, but her support for him and his candidacy is unwavering – and scary. She still thinks highly of The Donald that…
She Compared Trump To Who?!?
Trump is “Churchillian,” Coulter said. Of course, the “spluttering hysteria on TV about” Trump proves it.
Trump's speech today was Churchillian, only better. You can tell by the spluttering hysteria on TV about @realDonaldTrump.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 13, 2016
“Churchillian, only better?” Cue vomit session…
When Coulter compared Trump to the late great PM Churchill, he likely rolled over in his grave.
Spurred on by Trump’s not-speech titled “Terrorism, Immigration, and National Security,” the day of the horrendous shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Trump used the anti-LGBT shooting to pounce on “nasty” Muslims, tout his promised Muslim ban, and criticize President Barack Obama and his administration’s refugee program at the same time.
Of course the Twitter-verse chimed in, and Coulter’s detractors rightfully tore her down.
tRump "Hillary tougher than I thought"@PunchyMcgregor @USAneedsTRUMP @sister_w @AnnCoulter @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/aDyc0KrFkE
— Anthropologist (@Geraldanthro) June 16, 2016
@sister_w @AnnCoulter @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/TICoBtSZKV
— PRESIDENT Lil Trump (@USAneedsTRUMP) June 15, 2016
Cue The Cavalry
Except those who come to Coulter’s rescue can’t seem to remember what Churchill actually said either…
@tobyflood @AnnCoulter @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/bDtCm2t9Bm
— J.R. Wellman (@WellmanOne) June 14, 2016
This is the PM Churchill quote that isn’t. His actual words have a completely different connotation:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.”
Others who compared Trump to Churchill often use the following misquote an example, which, according to Snopes, says via email:
“Winston Churchill 1899: ‘Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.’ Is this a true quote?”
Yes and no, according to Snopes. That passage originated with Republican Missouri State Representative Rick Stream in 2013, and sorely lacks phrasing:
“The passage as reproduced on the Internet typically incorporates one small omission, though: it elides Churchill’s praise of ‘Moslems’ as ‘brave and loyal soldiers’ and covers the gap by combining the remaining part of the sentence with the previous one:
‘Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.'”
Churchill And Trump Compared Are Nothing Alike
Churchill wrote about the dangers of fanaticism, but his words are regularly taken out of context. PM Churchill praised Muslims – the 1.6 billion people who practice the religion peacefully worldwide – quite often.
Trump lumps peaceable and radical Muslims into a single group, demonizing the entire religion.
When PM Churchill rambled, his speeches were coherent and purposeful. Trump rambles hoping his audience won’t catch on to his nonsense, or find out that it’s the only way he can keep more than two almost-coherent thoughts together in that simple brain of his.
Churchill fought the Nazis. Trump almost is Adolf Hitler.
Say what you will about Trump’s similarities to Churchill, one fact remains. The only thing remotely “Churchillian” about The Donald is his portly body shape and rambling speeches, and compared to PM Churchill, even that’s stretching a point.
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