--- title: Glenn Beck Compares Donald Trump to Hitler description: Conservative pundit Glenn Beck compared Donald Trump to Hitler on Sunday canonical: https://time.com/4248841/glenn-beck-donald-trump-hitler/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-06T16:49:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:52.348Z article:section: Politics og:title: Glenn Beck Compares Donald Trump to Hitler og:description: "Donald Trump is a dangerous man with the things that he has been saying" og:url: https://time.com/4248841/glenn-beck-donald-trump-hitler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Glenn Beck Compares Donald Trump to Hitler twitter:description: "Donald Trump is a dangerous man with the things that he has been saying" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Glenn Beck Compares Donald Trump to Hitler > Sponsored content. 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The right-wing media personality called Trump a “dangerous man” during his appearance Sunday on ABC’s _This Week_ with host George Stephanopoulos. “We all look at Adolf Hitler in 1940\. We should look at Adolf Hitler in 1929,” Beck said. “He was a kind of a funny kind of character that said the things people were thinking. Where Donald Trump takes it, I have absolutely no idea. But Donald Trump is a dangerous man with the things that he has been saying.” Comedian Louis C.K. [made the same comparison](http://time.com/4248723/louis-ck-donald-trump-email-hitler-comparison/) on Saturday, calling Trump an “insane bigot” while urging voters to stop supporting him. “It was funny for a little while. But the guy is Hitler,” he said. “And by that I mean that we are being Germany in the ’30s. Do you think they saw the s–t coming? 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