--- title: Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump description: The video paraphrases German pastor Martin Niemöller's "First they came..." poem canonical: https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-25T14:45:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:54:20.726Z article:section: Politics og:title: Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump og:description: The video paraphrases German pastor Martin Niemöller's "First they came..." poem og:url: https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca9a2eaac33299f3/698872b5cf40a8688cc40d28/john-kasich.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: John Kasich Discusses National Security Strategy At The National Press Club og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump twitter:description: The video paraphrases German pastor Martin Niemöller's "First they came..." poem twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca9a2eaac33299f3/698872b5cf40a8688cc40d28/john-kasich.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 25, 2015 2:45 PM CUT  John Kasich waits to speak during a news conference outlining his national security strategy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 17, 2015. John Kasich waits to speak during a news conference outlining his national security strategy at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 17, 2015.Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Nov 25, 2015 2:45 PM CUT Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s campaign team released a new video Tuesday criticizing Donald Trump’s comments to certain minority groups. The video, titled “Trump’s Dangerous Rhetoric,” features retired Col. Tom Moe, an Air Force veteran and former Vietnam prisoner-of-war, paraphrasing late German pastor Martin Niemöller’s [“First they came…”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%5Fthey%5Fcame%5F... "undefined") poem about the Nazi’s rise to power while headlines about Trump’s controversial statements appear on screen: --- > “” --- During a Tuesday rally in South Carolina, Trump, the Republican party’s current frontrunner, made fun of Kasich’s poll numbers—”We’re beating the governor of Ohio in his own state,”—and also mispronounced his name (Kay-sick, not Kay-sitch). \[[NBC](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/first-they-came-kasich-goes-after-trump-tough-video-n469251 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/"},"headline":"Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump","datePublished":"2015-11-25T14:45:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:54:20.726Z","description":"The video paraphrases late German pastor Martin Niemöller's \"First they came...\" poem","url":"https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump","2016 Campaign","john kasich"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca9a2eaac33299f3/698872b5cf40a8688cc40d28/john-kasich.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca9a2eaac33299f3/698872b5cf40a8688cc40d28/john-kasich.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"John Kasich Discusses National Security Strategy At The National Press Club","caption":"John Kasich Discusses National Security Strategy At The National Press Club","creditText":"Andrew Harrer—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4126981/john-kasich-donald-trump-video/","name":"Kasich Campaign Invokes Poem About Nazis to Attack Trump"}}]}] ```