- Clinton sparked controversy over her D-Day commemoration on X
- She compared voting against Trump to soldiers fighting on D-Day
A social media post from Hillary Clinton commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day has been branded ‘sick and disgusting’.
The Democrat, who ran against Donald Trump for president in 2016, compared the fight against the Nazis Germany to vote against Trump in November.
The former Secretary of State said in her post: “Eighty years ago today, thousands of brave Americans fought to protect democracy on the coast of Normandy.
“All we have to do in November is vote,” she said in the post on her X account, which was widely criticized.
The Democrat, who ran against Donald Trump for president in 2016, compared the fight against Nazi Germany to voting against Trump in November
The Democrat, who ran against Donald Trump for president in 2016, compared the fight against Nazi Germany to voting against Trump in November.
One user wrote: ‘Just pure evil. We compare the sacrifices of those who died to defeat Hitler and retake Europe with the Democrats who voted against Donald Trump. Sick and disgusting.”
While conservative political pundit Ben Shapiro said: ‘What an extremely stupid and vile comment. Trump is not Hitler.
“And voting is not storming a beach under a hail of machine gun fire to free millions from Nazi tyranny.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said, “These Democrats couldn’t be more dramatic and deranged.
‘They compare storming the beaches of Normandy on #dday to voting against Trump,’
“How disrespectful to our World War II heroes who faced unimaginable fear with enormous courage 80 years ago,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said in a statement after on X.
Combat veteran and author Sean Parnell didn’t hold back in his X after: ‘Holy s*** I despise these people. It is impossible to capture how disgusting this comment is.
The former foreign minister has been widely criticized for her comments on D-Day
In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard landing ship, densely packed with helmeted soldiers, approaches the coast of Normandy, France, during the first Allied landing operations, June 6, 1944
Pictured: The scene along part of Omaha Beach in June 1944, during Operation Overlord
“It sickens me to trivialize what the heroes of World War II did with BS garbage politics. Once again, World War II veterans deserve so much better than this.”
D-Day commemorates the day Allied forces launched a massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy, France, as part of Operation Overlord which took place on June 6, 1944.
Thousands of American and Allied paratroopers landed around Normandy Beach, ahead of the largest armada of thousands of ships ever assembled carrying vast numbers of Allied troops across the English Channel to combat Nazi control.
It would be the largest air, land and sea attack in history, the beginning of the end of Hitler’s conquest of Europe.
Thousands of Americans and Allied troops died on D-Day and in the fighting that followed.
The successful invasion marked a major turning point in the war, as it marked the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe from Nazi control.