One prominent journalist compared Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s order for the State Department to change its official font style to the Nazis’ 1941 ban on “Jewish” fonts.

Former Voice of America White House bureau chief Steve Herman reacted to Rubio’s new directive by comparing it to the Holocaust-era Nazi initiative.

“The Nazis, in 1941, banned the Fraktur font because it was ‘too Jewish,’” Herman posted on X .

Herman’s comment came after he reacted to news that Rubio ordered the department to revert to Times New Roman for official papers, reversing a Biden-era directive that had switched to Calibri in 2023.

On the social media platform Mastodon, Herman reaffirmed his comparison in the comment section of his own post about Rubio’s font order, confirming he was directly lin

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