Twitter Reacts To Trump Being Called 'New Hitler' By Nicolas Maduro
U.S. President Donald Trump called on world leaders Tuesday during his United Nations General Assembly address to help restore democracy in Venezuela. Trump criticized the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and said his socialist dictatorship has caused trouble for the people in the South American country.
If the Venezuelan government continued to impose authoritarian rule on its people, Trump warned that he would build upon more economic sanctions that the U.S. had imposed on Venezuela last month.
At a dinner with Latin American leaders Monday, Trump said he would consider military options to put pressure on the South American country if it doesn't restore democracy soon, Reuters reported.
"The Venezuelan people are starving and their country is collapsing. Their democratic institutions are being destroyed. This situation is completely unacceptable and we cannot stand by and watch," Trump said in his U.N. General Assembly address. "I ask every country represented here today to be prepared to do more to address this very real crisis."
However, Maduro did not sit back after Trump's strong comments about Venezuela. Maduro, who did not attend the U.N. General Assembly gathering, responded by calling the speech an "aggression from the new Hitler of international politics, Mr. Donald Trump, against the people of Venezuela."
Maduro said neither can anybody threaten his country nor can anybody own it, ABC News reported.
The Venezuelan President also went few steps ahead and alleged that Trump threatened him with death, however, Trump only indicated that the U.S. is "prepared to take further action" against Venezuela, according to reports.
Meanwhile, many Twitter users seemed to agree with Maduro's "Hitler" comment. While some tweeted that Trump apparently kept Adolf Hitler's book by his bed and thus his actions are so much influenced by Hitler's actions, some wrote the U.S. president is indeed turning into a poor imitation of Hitler.
Some even tweeted that Hitler was much better at what he did and that Trump could not be compared with him.
Venezuela's capital, Caracas, has been witnessing demonstrations for the past few months, out of which some had turned violent. There is a blame game going on between Maduro's critics and the president himself; critics are alleging that Maduro is moving toward a dictatorship and want his resignation, while Maduro is blaming the opposition of conspiring with foreign entities, particularly the U.S., to destabilize the country, according to Al Jazeera.
On July 30, Maduro held an internationally condemned election in which Venezuelans were urged to choose the members of a new National Constituent Assembly that will be tasked with drafting a new constitution.
This election was a direct challenge to the Trump administration that had called on Maduro to cancel the vote, the Chicago Tribune reported.
"We will continue to take strong and swift actions against the architects of authoritarianism in Venezuela, including those who participate in the National Constituent Assembly as a result of today's flawed election," U.S. State Department spokesman Heather Nauert said in a statement. "Nearly 234 years to the day after the birth of Simon Bolivar, who fought for the freedom of the people of Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro has cast aside the voices and aspirations of the Venezuelan people."
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