--- title: Donald Trump: ADL Condemns Nazi Germany Tweet description: The Anti-Defamation League condemned President-elect Donald Trump's tweet comparing intelligence agencies to Nazi Germany canonical: https://time.com/4632041/adl-trump-nazi-germany-tweet/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-11T21:27:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:06:12.363Z article:section: Politics og:title: Anti-Defamation League Condemns Donald Trump's 'Nazi Germany' Tweet og:description: It "coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust" og:url: https://time.com/4632041/adl-trump-nazi-germany-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbfe4b471190a6c37/6988b531196cf43cb603e73d/donald-trump-adl-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Press Conference In New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Anti-Defamation League Condemns Donald Trump's 'Nazi Germany' Tweet twitter:description: It "coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbfe4b471190a6c37/6988b531196cf43cb603e73d/donald-trump-adl-tweet.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Anti-Defamation League Condemns Donald Trump's 'Nazi Germany' Tweet > Sponsored content. 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Jan 11, 2017 9:27 PM UTC The Anti-Defamation League condemned [President-elect Donald Trump](http://time.com/4631688/donald-trump-news-conference-what-to-know/)’s tweet questioning whether we are living in Nazi Germany, calling the analogy “inappropriate.” “The President-elect’s use of Nazi Germany to make a political analogy is not only an inappropriate comparison on the merits, but it also coarsens our discourse and diminishes the horror of the Holocaust,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a [statement](http://www.adl.org/press-center/press-releases/holocaust-nazis/adl-calls-comparison-to-nazi-germany-inappropriate.html#.WHagW5MrJTZ). Reports alleging that [Russia had compromising information on Trump](http://time.com/4631349/donald-trump-news-conference-russia/) prompted the President-elect to set off on a tweetstorm Wednesday morning to vehemently deny any ties to the Kremlin and question whether he was “living in Nazi Germany.” “Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to ‘leak’ into the public,” Trump wrote. “One last shot at me. 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