Jump to contentAllNewsSportCultureLifestyleEducation Secretary Linda McMahon walks to speak with reporters at the White House (AP)The Department of Education deleted a social media post that inadvertently compared President Donald Trump's administration to Nazi Germany. The department's official X account posted a clip from the movie Darkest Hour captioned "No one does it like us," alongside a tiger emoji. In the movie clip, Winston Churchill refers to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime as the tiger with which Britain could not reason. Social media users quickly criticized the department for misinterpreting the movie quote and accidentally likening Trump to Hitler. The department removed the post from its page following the swift public backlash. In fullTrump’s Education Department deletes post that compares his administration to Nazi GermanyMore bulletinsThank you for registeringPlease refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in

The Education Department posted a meme video hyping Trump as a “tiger” but took it down after users pointed out that the original clip was referencing Adolf Hitler.

Was this a mistake—or did the Department of Education post this on purpose?