MSNBC’s Wallave claims no Dem has called Trump Hitler, evidence says otherwise

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday that she does not believe any Democrat is comparing President Donald Trump to German dictator Adolf Hitler.

As ICE continues to detain undocumented immigrants in major U.S. cities, Pritzker openly likened their actions to those of Nazi enforcers during World War II. Pritzker, who is Jewish, emphasized that he does not take such comparisons lightly.

In Wallace’s interview “The Best People” He mentioned on his podcast that he helped a Holocaust survivor start a Holocaust museum. He explained that he did not believe such a terrible event could be repeated in America, but those who endured it could recognize the echoes of the authoritarianism emerging under Trump’s leadership.

Wallace added that equating Trump to Hitler “is not a partisan analysis,” recalling that current Vice President J.D. Vance once questioned whether Trump could be equal to Hitler. “America’s Hitler.” He praised Pritzker for articulating a thoughtful argument about the disturbing historical similarities between Trump’s America and Nazi Germany.

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“You put a kind of intellectual architecture behind and talked about the parallels that concern us all – the first thing you said was ‘people being asked for their papers,’ American citizens being asked to show up with their papers, street vendors being asked to produce passports, rallying people and good people looking the other way ‘this isn’t about me.’ You know, I’m a citizen. So who are they going to go after next?” he asked. “Talk a little bit about why this is so disturbing to so many people.”

Pritzker backtracked somewhat, drawing 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.”

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 History Channel to know they cheer for Hitler, too.”

Leading Democratic politicians have been comparing Trump to Hitler for years.

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker did not hesitate to condemn ICE and Trump’s efforts to clean up crime in American cities. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Hillary Clinton compared Trump to Hitler “Hitler was duly elected. Suddenly, someone with these tendencies, dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, said, ‘Okay, we’re going to shut this down, we’re going to put these people in jail,'” he warned during an appearance on The View in November 2023. And they usually don’t send it via telegram. “Trump is telling us what he wants to do.”

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, called Trump “Temu Hitler” as a way of saying he is a cheap, low-quality imitation and a “Hitler wannabe.” In the latter case, he doubled down on doing so even as the national debate erupted over whether such comparisons lead to violence, sparked by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Rep. James Clyburn, D.S.C. Comparing Trump to Hitler for years, Including his first term, he said: “I can only identify one period with what we are going through now, and that’s what happened in Germany around 1934, just after the 1932 election when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor.”

He has consistently compared Trump’s presidency to Hitler, such as in a conversation with Fox News host Neil Cavuto, although he has continued to soften and say Italian dictator Benito Mussolini might be a better comparison.

“Are you imagining another Hitler? Is that what you’re saying?” Cavuto asked.

“That’s exactly what I’m saying. I said in Germany in the 1930s!” Clyburn responded.

“Yes you did,” Cavuto said.

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President Donald Trump has been compared to Hitler by his critics for years, even though he has brought together a diverse coalition of supporters. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

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Former Democratic president hopeful Beto O’Rourke likens Trump to Hitler In 2019, he was essentially arguing that Trump’s rhetoric about Mexicans was like something out of Nazi Germany. In 2023, he argued that for Trump, just like Hitler, simply being elected does not make a person less of a dictator.

“I can only imagine that history books written 100 years from now will be written looking at people in 2025,” O’Rourke said in California. Governor Gavin Newsom’s podcast. “You know, when you and I were in school, we were looking after people in Germany in 1933. This man was elected chancellor in January of that year. He destroyed German democracy in 53 days.”

Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore also drew parallels with Hitler; For example, he played Hitler’s voice in a scene in his documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. Trump talks about footage of Hitler’s rally.

Moore later commented, “Hitler and Trump are not the same thing.” “But if you don’t at least look at the history, the patterns of history, how the manipulation of fear, the manipulation of the public works, you’re making a stupid mistake,” Moore said. “I’m not a person who fell from the sky. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. But I’m conscious enough to see what’s going on. And if anyone still thinks ‘it’s not that bad’, ‘it won’t be that bad’, it’s time to wake up.”