Sarah Silverman dressed up as Hitler to reject Trump comparisons on the dictator's behalf
Conan O'Brien welcomed "Adolf Hitler" — actually comedian Sarah Silverman in a khaki uniform and a tiny mustache — to his show Thursday evening to push back against comparisons between Donald Trump and the Nazi dictator.
"Don't get me wrong, Conan, I agree with a lot of what he says," Hitler began. "A lot. Like 90 percent of what he says, I'm like, 'This guy gets it.' But it's just, I don't like the way he says it. It's crass, you know?"
For his part, Trump on Tuesday rebuked the link between himself and perhaps the single most hated historical figure ever. "I don't know about the Hitler comparison," he said in an interview with Good Morning America. "I hadn't heard that, but it's a terrible comparison. I'm not happy about that certainly."
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