MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, JB Pritzker mocked over Trump-Hitler comparison denial

Fox News’ “Gutfeld!” The panel criticized MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday after they claimed no Democrats had compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

Gutfeld opened the episode Monday by posting a clip of Pritzker appearing on Wallace’s “Top People” podcast; where the two agreed that no Democrats had called Trump Hitler and that Republicans were making such claims as a smear tactic.

“Wow, I wish there was a thing called the internet,” Gutfeld scolded before playing a compilation of Democrats comparing the president to Hitler.

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Gutfeld later presented a compilation of videos featuring prominent Democrats such as former Vice President Kamala Harris and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett, calling Trump a “Hitler wannabe” in a July 19 clip.

He mocked Wallace’s producers for not informing him of “this thing called reality” and said they could easily find such examples with a quick search on the Internet.

In his interview with Wallace on Monday, Pritzker drew a clear line between drawing historical parallels in politics and directly comparing Trump to Hitler.

“I am not suggesting that Donald Trump is Hitler,” Pritzker said.

“I don’t think any Democrat has done that,” Wallace said. “I actually think it’s a smear projected onto critics. But J.D. Vance called Donald Trump a ‘cultural heroin’. He called him ‘America’s Hitler.’ So the attacks on Donald Trump as a fascist came from three generals who worked for him.”

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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker speaks at his office at The Center for American Progress event in Washington, D.C., March 18 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

But records show that many prominent Democrats, and Wallace himself, drew parallels between Trump and Hitler.

After Trump drew applause from the crowd at a 2018 event by adopting the word “nationalist,” he replied, “I watch enough of the History Channel to know they were cheering for Hitler, too.”

Fox News’ Kat Timpf agreed with Pritzker’s thoughts on his claim, noting that the governor never “suggested” that Trump was Hitler and claimed that he “set the bar too low for himself.”

“So when you said that Trump’s immigration policy was a harbinger of the Holocaust, what were you suggesting Trump was doing under these circumstances?” Timpf questioned. “I’d love to hear your answer.”

“Because if he said I didn’t call directly [Trump] Hitler, perhaps this is true. “But what did you mean when you meant all this – you definitely suggested it,” he added.

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President Donald Trump speaks to a meeting of senior U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Va. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Pritzker, who created the Illinois Accountability Commission to monitor the conduct of ICE agents, insisted there were “always” cases of abuse.

The vocal critic of Trump compared the president’s ICE crackdown to Nazi Germany and called ICE agents “thugs” of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Fox News’ Alexander Hall and Stephanie Samsel contributed to this report.