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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee drew a swift and intense response with a provocative claim Tuesday: President Donald Trump, he wrote, is similar to Winston Churchill, one of history’s most iconic leaders. Huckabee, who had just watched Darkest Hour, a film about Churchill, wrote on Twitter the film was a reminder of “what real leadership looks like.” “Churchill was hated by his own party, opposition party, and press,” Huckabee tweeted. “Feared by King as reckless, and despised for his bluntness. But unlike Neville Chamberlain, he didn’t retreat. We had a Chamberlain for 8 yrs; in @realDonaldTrump we have a Churchill.” As Britain’s prime minister, Chamberlain, whose name has come to be synonymous with weakness in the face of evil, made concessions to Adolf Hitler in the 1938 Munich Agreement. Churchill, by contrast, was an officer in the British army during World War I; led Britain through World War II as prime minister from 1940 to 1945; and handled several foreign policy crises in a second term as prime minister from 1951 to 1955. He was known for his skill as an orator and writer, winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. So it was unsurprising that the comments by Huckabee, whose daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is the White House press secretary, stirred up Twitter. “Sure. Churchill served his country 55 years in parliament, 31 years as a minister and 9 as pm,” Kristian Tonning Riise, a member of Norway’s parliament, wrote in a tweet liked more than 19,000 times. “He was present in 15 battles and received 14 medals of bravery. He was one of history’s most gifted orators and won the Nobel Literature Prize for his writing. Totally same thing.”
Model Chrissy Teigen and her singer husband, John Legend, were aboard a Tokyo-bound flight that returned to Los Angeles hours into the journey after the crew discovered that one of the passengers had boarded the wrong plane, All Nippon Airways said Wednesday. Teigen live-tweeted the developments. She wondered on Twitter why the plane was turning around four hours into the 11-hour flight. “Why did we all get punished for this one person’s mistake? Why not just land in Tokyo and send the other person back? How is this the better idea, you ask? We all have the same questions,” she wrote. Teigen also tweeted photos, videos and updates as they waited to resume the trip. The flight left Los Angeles International Airport at 11:36 a.m. Tuesday and returned at 7:33 p.m. The pilot returned to the originating airport as part of the airline’s security procedures, the airline said in a statement that apologized to passengers but supported the decision. The airline said it was trying to determine how the passenger boarded the wrong flight.