--- title: Louis C.K. on Donald Trump: 'The Guy Is Hitler' description: Comedian Louis C.K. urged people to stop supporting Donald Trump on Saturday, including a lengthy and impassioned plea in an email canonical: https://time.com/4248723/louis-ck-donald-trump-email-hitler-comparison/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-05T19:00:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:06.963Z article:section: Politics og:title: Louis C.K. on Donald Trump: 'The Guy Is Hitler' og:description: "He’s an insane bigot. 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Now, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are attempting to beat him at his own game—but will any attacks against Trump actually stick?_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 5, 2016 7:00 PM UTC  Comedian Louis C.K. poses in the press room during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on Feb. 28 in Hollywood, California. Comedian Louis C.K. poses in the press room during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Loews Hollywood Hotel on Feb. 28 in Hollywood, California. C Flanigan—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 5, 2016 7:00 PM UTC Comedian Louis C.K. urged voters to stop supporting Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Saturday, including a lengthy and impassioned plea in an email about his web series “[Horace and Pete.](https://louisck.net/show/horace-and-pete)” “Please stop it with voting for Trump,” C.K. wrote in the email, which was [reported in full by Variety](http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-donald-trump-insane-bigot-dangerous-1201723679/). “It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler. And by that I mean that we are being Germany in the ’30s. Do you think they saw the s–t coming? Hitler was just some hilarious and refreshing dude with a weird comb over who would say anything at all.” C.K. is far from the first [comedian](http://time.com/4240734/john-oliver-donald-trump-last-week-tonight/) or [public figure](http://time.com/4246148/mitt-romney-donald-trump/) to criticize Trump, who faced scrutiny last week when he, at one point, [refused to condemn the Ku Klux Klan](http://time.com/4240268/donald-trump-kkk-david-duke/) or disavow an endorsement by former Klansman David Duke. In the email, C.K. said he likes both Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders but would actually like the next president to be conservative because the country has had two terms of Democratic President Barack Obama. “But it only works if the conservatives put up a good candidate. A good smart conservative to face the liberal candidate so they can have a good argument and the country can decide which way to go this time,” C.K. wrote. “Trump is not that. He’s an insane bigot. He is dangerous.” Recent voting contests have shown Trump dominating the Republican primary. Even as some [conservatives mount a campaign](http://time.com/4244074/never-donald-trump-movement-super-tuesday/) to stop the businessman, other members of the GOP [fear no other candidate will be able to beat Trump](http://time.com/4244302/ted-cruz-super-tuesday-texas-donald-trump/) to the party nomination. C.K. compared Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, denouncing him for [criticizing former prisoner of war Sen. John McCain](http://time.com/3963975/donald-trump-john-mccain-2016-presidential-election/) and for vowing to [make it easier to sue journalists](http://time.com/4239386/donald-trump-libel-freedom-of-press/) for libel. “He’s not a monster. He’s a sad man,” C.K. wrote. “But all this makes him horribly dangerous if he becomes president. Give him another TV show. Let him pay to put his name on buildings. But please stop voting for him.” Read the full letter at [Variety](http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/louis-c-k-donald-trump-insane-bigot-dangerous-1201723679/). ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:04] Everybody knows what they're getting in Donald Trump. [00:05] You've seen him on TV and interviews, so it's hard to [00:09] attack him like you would a conventional politician because [00:12] everybody has heard of him already. And it's pretty [00:17] hard to reset that with a single jibe. [00:29] [ MUSIC ] Over the next couple of weeks we're going to [00:32] see all of these candidates and outsiders launching [00:34] massive last ditch effort to stop Donald Trump, before the [00:37] March 15th winner take all primary's. It' really too soon to [00:40] tell if this will work, but ultimately It's now or never. When [00:47] Donald Trump first started running a lot of the other [00:49] candidates didn't really take him seriously, and so they [00:52] didn't bother attacking him. They were much more [00:54] concerned with fighting each other for the particular spot, [00:57] whether it be the establishment or the conservative spot. [00:59] There it is, the memorized twenty five second speech. [01:02] Donald Trump is the master of insults and it's hard to [01:06] beat him at his own game. When Mexico sends it's people. [01:10] They're bringing drugs. Their rapists and some I [01:14] assume are good people. And he has a particular gift at [01:17] figuring out what is the thing that is going to most bother [01:20] you. Low energy individual. So if you are going up against [01:24] Trump they have to figure out. How to insult him in an [01:28] equally devastating way and I don't know that the attacks [01:31] that we've heard so far are actually going to work. Let me [01:34] ask for a full length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants [01:36] weren't wet. I don't know. Then He's [01:40] not a politician so there's not a record of votes that he took [01:42] or bills that he sponsored or actions that he took. So a lot of [01:46] that just becomes like well, yeah, I said that one time and [01:48] now I'm saying this. And so people don't mind. Would [01:52] never do that. [ LAUGH ] Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have [01:55] spoken up a lot more directly going after him. He's not [01:59] faced some of these attacks. So some of them we just don't [02:01] know whether they will work or not. Or it's possible that they [02:05] may work but they could turn out to be more useful to [02:08] Democrats down the road. I think you already see Clinton's [02:11] campaign portraying Trump as the divider and Hillary is the [02:15] Uniter .>> America never stopped being great we have to [02:16] make America whole. I [02:21] was told by the campaign that they felt that the republican [02:24] field had tried to define Trump a little too late and if they [02:27] would not make the same mistake I don't think you're [02:30] going to see Hillary herself attacking Trump. I think you're [02:33] gonna see Bill Clinton and her surrogate certainly, [02:35] attacking Trump. She wants to remain a very positive [02:38] messenger. Almost in a Ronald Reagan kind of sense, the [02:41] optimism of morning in America. Today is more love and [02:43] kindness. Whereas, they would portray Donald Trump [02:47] as night in America. The thing though is that Trump is [02:51] wining the Republican primaries based largely off of white [02:54] support and when it comes to general election, given all [02:57] the constituencies that he's offended, will he still have the [03:00] same power. Will he still be able to win, and will any of [03:04] these attacks start to stick? 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