The federal agency responsible for implementing a military draft, should the need arise, reposted a vulgar tweet Wednesday suggesting that the US is on a course reminiscent of Nazi Germany.
“For all you stupid f—s out there that still believe military service will be voluntary. Remember Germany 1936,” read an X post shared by the Selective Service System.
The tweet was initially posted by an X user going by “SloJoe,” whose profile picture includes a photo of the late general and secretary of state Colin Powell.
The post appears to be referring to Adolf Hitler’s decision to reintroduce military conscription in Nazi Germany, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, prior to his occupation of the Rhineland in 1936.
Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, boosted comparisons of President-elect Donald Trump and Hitler in the final weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign.
The Selective Service System did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The reposted tweet remained on the SSS’s X account for over an hour, even after it was flagged by a CBS News reporter and other users on the social media platform.
“What’s going on with the @SSS_gov (Selective Service) X account?” reporter Jim LaPorta wrote on X.
“Why is the official selective service account retweeting this???” another puzzled X user tweeted.
US law requires nearly all men between the ages of 18 and 25 to register with the Selective Service System, which maintains the nation’s draft databases.
In June, Trump dismissed the notion that he would push for mandatory military service in a second White House term.
Trump, 78, called the idea of compulsory military service a “ridiculous idea” in response to a Washington Post report that some former administration officials and Republican lawmakers see a national service mandate as a “remedy” to a decline in military recruiting numbers.
“The Story is completely untrue. In fact, I never even thought of that idea,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.