I suggested on social media that where Churchill brought encouragement and hope, Trump brings fear, mistrust and hate. It seemed incontrovertible
Nonetheless, I felt on solid ground in mocking the attempt by Donald Trump’s callow press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to compare her boss to Winston Churchill.
When Churchill visited the East End of London in September 1940, he was followed by large crowds – but they were adoring, not belligerent. Journalist Murad Hemmadi said Churchill advocated gassing Indians rebelling against the British Raj in 1919. He was backed by a number of others, one of whom pointed out Churchill “signed off” on terms at Yalta that consigned tens of millions to Soviet rule.
“The mission is not to exclude certain people but to more accurately remember them and to re-write peoples who have been purposely excluded from that story into it,” he said. Churchill considered Gandhi “a bad man and an enemy of the Empire” and was unperturbed by the prospect of his death. He was widely blamed for the Dardanelles disaster in the First World War, which saw him demoted as First Lord of the Admiralty and consigned to the trenches on the Western Front.
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