Noam Chomsky: Trump isn’t really a nationalist

Published October 24, 2018 3:43pm ET



Left-wing academic Noam Chomsky says President Trump is not a “nationalist” because Trump doesn’t care enough about his own nation, regardless of Trump’s controversial embrace of the term this week.

Chomsky told the Washington Examiner the term is used in “all sorts of ways.” But while the term has been used to describe world leaders such as Adolf Hitler, the linguist and social analyst said he’s less concerned about that connotation and more irked by the falsity of Trump’s claim.

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