Comedian John Cleese’s “Joke” Comparing Donald Trump To Adolf Hitler Falls Flat | The Gateway Pundit

Legendary comic and Monty Python actor John Cleese shared a “joke” on social media evaluating methods Nazi chief Adolf Hitler is preferable to President Donald Trump.

Cleese wrote, “5 ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump: He fought for his nation, He by no means used a teleprompter, He was good to canines, He wrote his personal books, He by no means performed golf, He wasn’t an enormous fats slob.”

5 ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump

1. He fought for his nation
2. He by no means used a teleprompter
3. He was good to canines
4. He wrote his personal books
5. He by no means performed golf
6. He wasn’t an enormous fats slob

5 methods Trump is preferable to Hitler

1. He doesn’t follow…

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023

Cleese then expanded on qualities that make Donald Trump preferable to Hitler however may solely “handle’ two examples, “He doesn’t follow genocide,” and “He has nicer hair.”

I ought to have thought that was apparent to any fool

If to not anybody else… https://t.co/pSppvv2bwe

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023

After backlash, Cleese addressed the controversy.

“I want to apologize for my final tweet,” he wrote. “It was a really dangerous joke, particularly on Boxing Day.”

I want to apologise for my final tweet

It was a really dangerous joke, particularly on Boxing Day

— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023

Regardless of the clunky and unfunny joke, Cleese has fought for the precise for individuals to specific their opinions, nevertheless unpoplular, and eschews cancel tradition.

In October, he was considered one of 136 journalists, intellectuals, scientists, and others who signed The Westminster Declaration, which calls on the federal government to uphold the Common Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and to chorus from censoring politically motivated speech, dissenting voices, and political opinion.

He has expressed his issues about modern society’s rampant hypersensitivity and notes he avoids visiting faculty campuses because of political correctness.

In 2022, Cleese joined the British “free speech” channel GB News.

Cleese has beforehand blasted cancel tradition, calling it a “tragedy.”

The Hollywood Reporter reported:

Earlier this yr, Cleese, 82, described cancel tradition as a “tragedy,” telling the attendees on the FreedomFest convention in Las Vegas, the place he was keynote speaker, that comedians didn’t have the liberty to be humorous anymore and that comedy movies have been now “aimed toward younger males as a result of they’re those who go to the cinema on Friday evening.” Final yr, it was reported that Cleese was to entrance a brand new sequence known as Cancel Me on Brit community Channel 4 to analyze cancel tradition and what it means for comedy. In November, Cleese appeared to cancel himself when he pulled the plug on an look at Cambridge College after a visiting speaker was banned for making a Hitler impression, saying that he was “blacklisting myself earlier than another person does” and urging organizers to “discover a venue the place woke guidelines don’t apply.”