Washington Commanders player Jonathan Allen deleted and apologized for a tweet about Adolf Hitler on Wednesday after saying he’d like to have dinner with the genocidal maniac.
“(Earlier) I tweeted something that probably hurt people and I apologize about what I said,” Allen wrote in his apology tweet. “I didn’t express properly what I was trying to say and I realize it was dumb!”
Another user had asked Allen which three people, dead or alive, he’d like to eat dinner with. Allen, 27, said his grandfather, Michael Jackson and Hitler.
The questioner asked Allen to explain the Hitler selection.
“He’s a military genius and I love military tactics,” Allen wrote, “but honestly I would want to pick his brain as to why he did what he did. I’m also assuming that the people I’ve chosen have to answer all my questions honestly.”
Allen’s response was the latest in a long-running tradition of football people praising Hitler’s extremely questionable and proven ineffective military strategy and leadership tactics.
In another response, Allen said he recognized Hitler was “one (of), if not the most, evil persons to have ever lived.”
