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As Godwin's Law would predict, all U.S. presidents in recent history have ended up being compared to Adolf Hitler by some critics, and President Donald Trump is no exception to that rule. Certainly Trump's constant attacks on the U.S. news media have drawn many Hitlerian comparisons, including the following tweet that presented one of Trump's anti-press diatribes as translating Mein Kampf: We can verify that the quoted words are indeed correctly attributed to their respective authors. Trump's denunciation that much of what the U.S. press reports is FAKE NEWS, pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people comes from an Aug. 16, 2018, tweet: The statement on the right comes from Hitler's 1925 autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf, begun while he was imprisoned for his part in a failed coup d'état in Munich, Bavaria, in November 1923. Although Hitler's work is subject to the vagaries of translation (since Hitler wrote in German), the above passage does appear as worded in Chapter 11 of Mein Kampf in at least one English-language translation: Other translations provide slightly different wording, but the gist is the same: To what extent the two statements presented above resemble each other is something of a subjective issue, but many critics, such as civil rights lawyer Burt Neuborne, have drawn parallels between Trump's and Hitler's attacks on the mainstream press:
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