Donald Trump is a nazi sympathizer, according to an op-ed by George Washington University’s (GWU) Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs.
In an article published by Foreign Policy and promoted by the GWU on Thursday, Reuben Brigety — a former U.S. ambassador and State Department official — called President Donald Trump “America’s first Nazi-supporting president” and “Nazi-in-chief.”
“The unprecedented situation that we currently face, however, is that the elected government of the day is now led by a Nazi- and white-nationalist sympathizer. Unlike the unfortunate former White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, there is no way for senior Trump political appointees to evade this grim reality by hiding in the bushes to escape the moral weight of the choice that confronts them,” Brigety penned.
“How, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, can you convince the world that American values are a force for good in the world, and convince your own workforce who hail from every corner of our country to confidently project America’s image in the world, if you fail to publicly challenge a president who embraces the latter-day Nazi spawn of the greatest evil the world has ever seen?”
Brigety’s 1,439 word diatribe against the “visceral racist utterances of the commander-in-chief” was promoted on The Elliott School’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Responses were mixed.
“This makes me very proud to be a graduate of the Elliott School of International Affairs. Thank you for this statement,” posted Shelley Wagner Booth.
“I’d say what a POS this school has become, but then again it just wasn’t that great when I went there,” posted Matthew LeFande.
Brigety concluded, “In light of the president’s exposed racist character, only three choices remain:
“1. Condemn the president’s words directly and categorically, and risk the professional wrath of a man who prides loyalty to himself above all other virtues.
“2. Resign in protest, thereby refusing to abet the unreconstructed racist in the Oval Office but preserving your own personal honor.
“3. Continue to serve this fundamentally flawed man, and have to explain to your personal progeny and our national posterity why you chose to silently serve America’s first Nazi-in-chief.”
