Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left American soil this week to head to Germany, where she delivered criticism of the Trump administration during a speech at the globalist World Forum on the Future of Democracy, Tech, and Humankind in Berlin on Tuesday.
Hillary claimed the United States has aligned itself with autocratic regime, and is no longer a true democracy.
“Autocracy is on the march,” Clinton declared less than 60 seconds into her address. “And we now have a government in the United States that has thrown in its lot with the autocrats, which has made a choice to support those who wage war, not peace, who has given enormous power to the men who control the information flow in our world, who have all pledged allegiance to the continuation of algorithms that not only addict us, but poison us with hatred and fear.”
Clinton’s comments were clearly directed at President Donald Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk, who now leads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his relationships with other tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, who attended Trump’s inauguration in January.
The former First Lady and 2016 presidential candidate focused much of her address on information control in the digital age. She said that technology and Artificial Intelligence represent “the core issue facing our world today” and implied voters couldn’t handle information flows.
“Information determines how we think, and how we think determines what we say, and what we say determines what we do,” Clinton said. “Where there are no facts that are agreed upon, that happen right before your eyes, and you have leaders telling you to ignore it, that Putin did not invade Ukraine, that Ukraine somehow brought it upon itself.”
She added: “Where there are no facts, there cannot be truth, and where there is no truth, there cannot be trust, and where there is no trust, there cannot be democracy and peace.”
Clinton’s remarks came on the same day that Trump held a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which Trump sought future U.S.-Russian economic cooperation in exchange for an end to the Ukrainian war.
While Putin rejected a proposal for an unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine, he did agree to a more limited ceasefire focusing on energy infrastructure. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky endorsed this limited agreement in a separate call with Trump on Wednesday. Russian forces bombed a Ukrainian energy plant shortly after the phone call, however.
Former President Bill Clinton also spoke at the forum, and said Trump voters are attracted to authoritarians because they don’t understand complex issues.
“And now we’re fighting this rise in autocracy, where everybody says, ‘Oh, I’m so tired, I don’t want to think about this anymore,'” he said. “‘Oh, I know it’s unfortunate what’s happening in Russia, but what can I do about it?'”
“‘And, ‘I really like this macho person who talks tough, acts tough, and relieves me of any of the burdens of thinking about all this stuff. I mean, I have a job to do every day, I got bills to pay, I’ve got costs to worry about. What do I care? What do I know?””
This isn’t the first time Hillary Clinton has stoked controversy with her criticism of Trump supporters. During the 2016 election, she famously referred to Trump voters as “deplorable.” In the days leading up to the 2024 election, she compared attendees at a Trump political rally in Madison Square Garden to those at a Nazi rally in 1939.