Former first lady Melania Trump said her husband is “not Hitler” in a Fox News interview Tuesday morning.
“He’s not Hitler, and all of his supporters, [they’re] standing behind him because they want [to] see [the] country successful, and we see how — what kind of support he has,” the former first lady said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”
Melania Trump’s comments come in the wake of recent interviews of former White House chief of staff John Kelly from The Atlantic and The New York Times in which he said former President Trump lauded Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s generals due to their loyalty. Kelly also told The Atlantic that Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”
Vice President Harris also said she believes the former president “is a fascist” during a CNN town hall last week.
“He loves his country, and he wants to make it successful and to — for all of the people,” Melania Trump said in her Fox News appearance. “You know, he — he loves people, and he wants to make this country great again.”
At a Monday rally, former President Trump also pushed back against those labeling him as a fascist.
“You know, years ago, my father — I had a great father, tough guy — he used to always say, ‘Never use the word Nazi. Never use that word.’ And he’d say, ‘Never use the word Hitler. Don’t use that word,’” the former president said.
“And yet they use that word freely. Both words. They say, ‘He’s Hitler,’ and then they say, ‘He’s a Nazi,’” he continued. “I’m not a Nazi. I’m the opposite of a Nazi.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, also compared the former president’s recent rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City to a 1939 pro-Nazi event.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said at an event in Henderson, Nev. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden.”
An American Nazi Party held a rally at Madison Square Garden in February 1939 that lured 20,000 supporters to the iconic New York City landmark.
“And don’t think that he doesn’t know for one second exactly what they’re doing there,” Walz said.