The Wikipedia page “Donald Trump and Fascism” was created on September 21, 2024, the same day The Guardian published a 4,000-word essay titled “Is Donald Trump a Nazi?” — and was cited as a source in the Wikipedia article.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to the incident, calling Wikipedia “broken” after posting an article calling former President Donald Trump a “fascist.”
The report caught Musk’s attention.
“Wikipedia is broken,” he said, citing the article.
The page calling Trump a fascist was written primarily by two editors, who accounted for 91.2% of all edits, an unusual occurrence on a site with more than 48 million editors in English alone. The “Donald Trump vs. Fascism” page draws heavily from left-wing pundits and includes an entire section comparing the January 6 riots to Adolf Hitler’s beer hall putsch.
The Pirate Wires article also cites the Wikipedia page for “Trumpism,” the ideology and movement associated with Trump, which it describes in hostile terms.
In the final weeks of the 2024 election cycle, the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party have deliberately portrayed Trump as a fascist, comparing him to the former president and Hitler. Republicans and some Democrats have condemned the rhetoric as inciting violence following the two assassination attempts on Trump.
Although Kamala Harris has also expressed support for the cryptocurrency market if elected, the majority of the community believes that Donald Trump is the one who will really make the market explode.
