The former vice president said the administration was “insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.”
By Debra Kahn
SAN FRANCISCO — Former Vice President Al Gore on Monday compared President Donald Trump’s administration to Nazi Germany and issued a dire warning about Trump’s use of power in a speech devoted to climate change.
Speaking at an event at the start of San Francisco’s Climate Week, Gore said the Trump administration was “trying to create their own preferred version of reality” to achieve their sweeping objectives similar to Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in the 1930s and ‘40s.
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Gore, for his part, cited German philosophers’ “moral autopsy on the Third Reich” in the aftermath of World War II.
“It was [Jürgen] Habermas’ mentor, Theodore Adorno, who wrote that the first step in that nation’s descent into hell was, and I quote, ‘the conversion of all questions of truth into questions of power,”’ Gore said. “He described how the Nazis, and I quote again, ‘attacked the very heart of the distinction between true and false.’ End quote. The Trump administration is insisting on trying to create their own preferred version of reality.”
Gore, whose 2006 documentary about global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” won an Academy Award, also reeled off a series of assertions by Trump about climate change and energy technologies as part of his broadside on the administration’s dismantling of previous Democratic administrations’ climate policies.
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