Former first lady Melania Trump on Tuesday condemned “egregious” Democratic-led attacks suggesting her husband, Donald Trump, is a second Hitler.
Melania, 54, said in a roundtable discussion on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that her recent comments were “terrible.”
“He is not Hitler. His supporters, they support him because they want to see the country succeed, and we look at the kind of support he has. ”
“He loves his country and he wants to make it successful for all of his people. You know, he loves his people and he wants to make this country great again. ” she added.
The incident prompted Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz to compare President Trump’s Sunday Madison Square Garden rally to the infamous pro-Nazi event held at the arena’s predecessor site 85 years ago. This was just days after the incident was widely condemned.
“Donald Trump had this huge rally happen at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said while in Henderson, Nevada. “There are direct parallels to the mass gatherings that occurred at Madison Square Garden in the 1930s.”
Left-wing networks, including MSNBC, quickly pushed this comparison by splicing together footage of a hateful 1939 German-American rally with footage of Trump supporters in the Big Apple.
The Trump campaign and Republicans quickly denounced the comparison as a “disgraceful” attack.
Harris’ campaign has been bashing President Trump, 78, for weeks for his apparent admiration for “fascists” like Hitler.
Ms. Harris last week claimed that her Republican rival was seeking to gain “unchecked” authority after the Nov. 5 election and suggested that Mr. Trump was a tyrant-like figure who admired Nazi leaders.
“It’s deeply disturbing that Donald Trump would summon Adolf Hitler, who is responsible for the deaths of six million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said at a hastily arranged press conference in Washington, D.C. “We should, and it’s extremely dangerous.”
“All of this is further evidence to the American people of who Donald Trump really is.”
Shortly after Harris’ remarks, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that President Joe Biden also views Trump as a “fascist.”
“Yes,” said Jean-Pierre. “We cannot ignore or forget what happened on January 6th (2021).”
“It is dangerous and offensive to praise Adolf Hilter.”
The reaction comes after John Kelly, President Trump’s former White House chief of staff, said earlier this month that the former president spoke positively about “Hitler’s generals” and disparaged U.S. military personnel while in the White House. This happened after The Atlantic reported that he had made the remarks.
