Actress and podcaster Sarah Thyre on Tuesday indirectly compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler in a tweet blasting Americans giving him the benefit of the doubt and comparing them to Germans in the Third Reich during the height of the Holocaust.
“Those saying ’give him a chance, he’s our president now’ are the 1940s Germans who smelled something weird but went about their business,” Ms. Thyre tweeted, apparently referring to the smell of crematoria from Nazi concentration camps during the height of the regime’s massacre of Jews and other persecuted ethnic and religious groups.
Both Ms. Thyre and husband Andy Richter — late-night comedian Conan O’Brien’s longtime sidekick — have frequently taken to social media to blast Mr. Trump particularly and conservatives in general.
While most of her ire seems directed at anonymous Twitter users, her own relatives do not appear immune from online criticism.
In late November, the “Crybabies” podcast co-host apparently trolled her own father on social media.
“Make #GivingTuesday even MORE fun by donating in honor of one of your Trump-supporting relatives - hi Dad!” she tweeted on Nov. 29. Attached to the tweet was a screenshot reading, “I made a donation in your name to the Trevor Project, a wonderful organization that helps LGBTQ youth. Merry Christmas!”
Two weeks earlier, Ms. Thyre wrote about how she “ambushed” her mother by taking her along to see her son’s school’s production of “The Laramie Project.”
“I ambushed my Trump-voting mother by taking her to see it. After, we had a long talk about hate crimes and sociopathy,” she tweeted on Nov. 12.Â
“Make art and use art however and whenever you can, folks. It works better than drunken Thanksgiving rants,” Ms. Thyre added in a subsequent tweet.
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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