Despite two attempts on the life of former President Donald Trump, legacy media are inciting more violence by casting him as a “Nazi” for hosting a rally in Madison Square Garden.
“In 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader — Adolf Hitler — packed the Garden for a so-called ‘pro-America’ rally, a rally where speakers voiced antisemitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners …,” said MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart Oct. 27, while playing film from the Nazi rally. “Against that backdrop of history, Donald Trump … is once again turning Madison Square Garden into a staging ground for extremism.”
But Trump’s rally hosted speakers like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who called for an end to pointless wars and the military-industrial complex, and Dr. Phil, who called on Americans to stand up to “bullying.” The rally drew a diverse group, including Jewish supporters and a Holocaust survivor. A group of Muslim leaders endorsed Trump just days ago.
Still, Democrats and media are calling Trump a Nazi for hosting a rally at the venue. They neglect to mention that this is where Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke in 1936, where President Lyndon B. Johnson addressed fellow Democrats in 1964, and where the Democrat party nominated Jimmy Carter in 1976.
Hillary Clinton claimed Trump was “reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ pick for VP, slandered Trump and his supporters as fascists for choosing the venue.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said. “And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there.”
Meanwhile, Harris’ super PAC is warning Democrats that this rhetoric will not resonate with Americans, and Trump has taken a recent lead in polls across all seven swing states.
Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, called on Walz to apologize and raised concerns the language could incite violence.
“Harris’ campaign is copying Hillary Clinton’s strategy of attacking half the country. Tim Walz needs to apologize for his disgraceful comments smearing Trump supporters,” Leavitt said in a press release on Oct. 28. “This kind of rhetoric has already inspired assassination attempts.”
Inciting Violence
Corporate media are echoing the Harris campaign’s dangerous messaging, saying Trump spoke “vile” and “hateful rhetoric” and set out to “rant about conspiracies.” MSNBC called it a “racist … rally,” and Politico claimed there were “racist and vulgar remarks.” The New York Times called it a “carnival of grievances, misogyny, and racism.”
“The media mobs are all in lockstep chanting, with their little tiki torches, that this was a Nazi rally,” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, posted on X.
She pointed out that the media’s rhetoric could “get Republicans harmed.”
So far, at least two deranged leftists have tried to kill Trump. A would-be assassin shot him in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. And while the former president played golf in Palm Beach, Florida, in September, another gunman hid in the bushes and engaged a Secret Service agent.
The second would-be assassin — apparently a Biden/Harris supporter — was a radical proponent of interventionism in Ukraine, often championed by corporate media. As The Federalist reported, the gunman attributed his violent actions to Democrat and media rhetoric: “Everyone across the globe from the youngest to the oldest know [sic] that Trump is unfit to be anything, much less a US president.”
Legacy media’s incitement of violence against Republicans goes back even further. While members of Congress played baseball in 2017, a radical Bernie Sanders supporter went on a shooting spree, “hunting Republicans.”
The gunman injured Rep. Steve Scalise and four others. He echoed the media’s casting of Trump as a “threat to democracy,” posting on Facebook that “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.”
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Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is originally from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.
