Jesse Ventura compares Trump’s America to ‘1930s Germany’ in angry message

The former wrestler-turned-governor has been harshly critical of Trump since the ICE shooting of Renee Good and believes the US now resembles a ‘third world country’

A legendary wrestler and US Navy seal-tuned Minnesota Governor has compared Donald Trump’s mobilisation of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in US cities to “1930s Germany”.

Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura who served as a governor from 1999 to 2003 has been harshly critical of the President following the death of 37-year-old Renee Good after she was shot by an ICE officer.

Ventura declared America a “third world country” because in those countries they have the “military doing the police work” which he said was happening in the US now. The hall of fame wrestler claimed he was an “expert” and knew what he was talking about.

He said: “I’m an expert, I’ve been to them [third world countries], I spent 17 months in Southeast Asia while the draft dodger [Trump] was playing golf.

“You know how I know we’re a third-world country? Because in Third World countries, they have the military doing the police work in the cities when you walk around.”

He added: “We went from nobody to a guy with a machine gun on every corner. That’s what happens in a dictatorship, in comes the military, that’s what’s happening here.”

Ventura explained how he was in the Philippines when the former president Ferdinand Marcos “declared martial law,” and the Southeast Asian country went under a “dictatorship.”

Ventura added that citizens need to “wake up” and learn from history, referencing 1930s Germany, and compared it to what’s occurring in the U.S.

He also condemned the ICE-involved shooting death of 37-year-old Renee Good, saying: “Any time you have the loss of life, that needlessly happens, that’s a tragedy. And what occurred yesterday didn’t have to happen.”

Ventura’s comments emerge as Minneapolis is reeling from the highly publicized death of Good, a mother-of-three who was driving home from dropping her six-year-old son when she had an encounter with ICE agents.

Social media video shows the moments leading up to Good’s shooting on Wednesday. An ICE officer approached her car and demanded she open the door, and grabbed the handle.

When she begins to pull forward, a different ICE officer standing in front of the vehicle pulls his weapon and immediately fires at least two shots into the vehicle at close range.

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Good was committing an act of “domestic terrorism” in a press conference. The Department of Homeland Security claimed the woman “weaponized her vehicle.”

Good’s ex-husband asserted that she was not an activist and that he had never known her to participate in any protests.

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