Fox News host Sean Hannity suggests that Russian President Vladimir Putin was imitating Donald Trump with his pro-war rally in Moscow.
According to Huffpost, Hannity made the suggestion twice on Friday, first on his radio programme then later on his primetime Fox News show.
“It looks like Vladimir Putin is channeling his inner Donald Trump,” Hannity said on his radio show.
“He had a what looked like, it almost looked like ‘The Big House’ in Michigan. Their football stadium, I think, holds 110,000 people,” he continued. “By the way, if you didn’t show up you probably got in trouble. My only guess, I’m sure many people showed up just out of fear. That’s what authoritarianism is all about, and we should know that by now.”
Later on his prime time show he said the rally was Putin’s “best attempt to look like Donald Trump.”
Putin spoke to a massive crowd of supporters at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Friday. Attendees were waving Russian flags and banners marked with the letter ‘Z,’ a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Today, during a big, manufactured pro-Putin rally in Moscow….there were some embarrassing technical difficulties during Vladimir’s big speech,” Hannity said.
Russian state TV cut off Putin in the middle of his speech to show songs performed earlier in the day. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov blamed the interruption on a technical failure.
