Tuesday’s cover of U.S. daily the Philadelphia Daily News shows a file photograph of Republican front-runner Donald Trump gesticulating with his hand in what happens to look that moment like a Nazi-like salute, together with the headline “The New Furor” — a pun with Führer, the German word for “leader” and Adolf Hitler’s infamous title.
On Monday afternoon, Trump sparked an uproar by saying he wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S., including American citizens who are Muslim and currently abroad. Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
Joining a wave of reactions to Trump’s statement, Rick Kriseman, the Democrat mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, joked in a tweet Tuesday, “I am hereby barring Donald Trump from entering St. Petersburg until we fully understand the dangerous threat posed by all Trumps.” Other Republican figures were quick to react, with Jeb Bush describing Trump as “unhinged,” and Dick Cheney saying this “goes against everything we believe in,
