Politics
'Harry Potter' author says Voldemort is 'nowhere near as bad' as Trump
Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, speaks during a rally coinciding with Pearl Harbor Day at Patriots Point aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)
By Erica Hernandez
Dec 8, 2015Twitter users began comparing the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to the "Harry Potter" villain Voldemort on Tuesday, after he suggested Muslims should be banned from America a day earlier. (Trump's proposal drew wide condemnation across the political and religious spectrum.)
J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter" author and the creative mind behind Voldemort, retweeted a link from BBC News that said: "This is why people are calling American businessman, Donald Trump, Lord Voldemort."
The man himself, Trump has not tweeted or addressed the comparison yet.
See the side-by-side photo comparisons and mashups from social media users, as well as Rowling's tweets, below.
