‘Stranger Things’ star Matthew Modine compares Donald Trump to Hitler: “It is no exaggeration”

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Stranger Things’ star Matthew Modine has compared Donald Trump with Hitler.It comes after the former president used footage from Full Metal Jacket, which Modine starred in, for a recent campaign ad he shared on X touting the US military with the caption: “We will not have a woke military!”This ad is contrasted with clips, apparently taken from TikTok, of modern military service-members dancing in drag.“In the 1930s, Leni Riefenstahl directed the Nazi propaganda films ‘Triumph Of The Will’ and ‘Olympia,’” Modine told Entertainment Weekly in an emailed statement about Trump’s ad.WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!

pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2024“These two films are considered among the most effective propaganda ever made.

Riefenstahl denied any knowledge of the Holocaust, repeatedly invoking the ‘how could we have known?’ defence. Ironically, Trump has twisted and profoundly distorted [Stanley] Kubrick’s powerful anti-war film into a perverse, homophobic, and manipulative tool of propaganda.”He continued: “Shortly before Riefenstahl died, she acknowledged her connection to Adolf Hitler in a BBC interview. ‘I was one of millions who thought Hitler had all the answers.

We saw only the good things; we didn’t know bad things were to come.'”“It is no exaggeration to see Trump’s reflection in the terrible figure Hitler was.