Legendary comic and Monty Python actor John Cleese shared a “joke” on social media evaluating methods Nazi chief Adolf Hitler is preferable to President Donald Trump.
Cleese wrote, “5 ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump: He fought for his nation, He by no means used a teleprompter, He was good to canine, He wrote his personal books, He by no means performed golf, He wasn’t an enormous fats slob.”
5 ways in which Hitler was preferable to Trump
1. He fought for his nation
2. He by no means used a teleprompter
3. He was good to canine
4. He wrote his personal books
5. He by no means performed golf
6. He wasn’t an enormous fats slob
5 methods Trump is preferable to Hitler
1. He doesn’t follow…
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023
Cleese then expanded on qualities that make Donald Trump preferable to Hitler however may solely “handle’ two examples, “He doesn’t follow genocide,” and “He has nicer hair.”
I ought to have thought that was apparent to any fool
If to not anybody else… https://t.co/pSppvv2bwe
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023
After backlash, Cleese addressed the controversy.
“I wish to apologize for my final tweet,” he wrote. “It was a really unhealthy joke, particularly on Boxing Day.”
I wish to apologise for my final tweet
It was a really unhealthy joke, particularly on Boxing Day
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) December 27, 2023
Regardless of the clunky and unfunny joke, Cleese has fought for the proper for folks to precise their opinions, nevertheless unpoplular, and eschews cancel tradition.
In October, he was one in all 136 journalists, intellectuals, scientists, and others who signed The Westminster Declaration, which calls on the federal government to uphold the Common Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and to chorus from censoring politically motivated speech, dissenting voices, and political opinion.
He has expressed his considerations about modern society’s rampant hypersensitivity and notes he avoids visiting faculty campuses as a consequence of political correctness.
In 2022, Cleese joined the British “free speech” channel GB News.
Cleese has beforehand blasted cancel tradition, calling it a “tragedy.”
The Hollywood Reporter reported:
Earlier this 12 months, Cleese, 82, described cancel tradition as a “tragedy,” telling the attendees on the FreedomFest convention in Las Vegas, the place he was keynote speaker, that comedians didn’t have the liberty to be humorous anymore and that comedy movies have been now “aimed toward younger males as a result of they’re those who go to the cinema on Friday evening.” Final 12 months, it was reported that Cleese was to entrance a brand new collection known as Cancel Me on Brit community Channel 4 to analyze cancel tradition and what it means for comedy. In November, Cleese appeared to cancel himself when he pulled the plug on an look at Cambridge College after a visiting speaker was banned for making a Hitler impression, saying that he was “blacklisting myself earlier than another person does” and urging organizers to “discover a venue the place woke guidelines don’t apply.”