MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said on Monday she doesn’t believe any Democrat has compared President Donald Trump to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
As ICE continues to detain undocumented immigrants in major U.S. cities, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has openly likened their actions to those of Nazi enforcers during World War II. Pritzker, who is Jewish, emphasized that he does not make such comparisons lightly.
In an interview on Wallace’s “The Best People,” podcast, he mentioned his involvement in helping a Holocaust survivor establish a Holocaust museum. He explained that while he does not believe such a horrific event could recur in America, those who endured it can recognize echoes of authoritarianism emerging under Trump’s leadership.
Wallace added that equating Trump to Hitler is “not a partisan analysis,” recalling how current Vice President JD Vance once questioned whether Trump could be “America’s Hitler.” She praised Pritzker for articulating a thoughtful argument about the troubling historical similarities between Trump’s America and Nazi Germany.
“You put sort of the intellectual architecture behind the parallels that involve all of us, and you’ve talked about — the first thing you said was ‘people being asked for their papers,’ American citizens being asked to show up with papers, street vendors being asked to produce passports, rounding people up, and good people looking the other way, thinking ‘that’s not about me.’ You know, I’m a citizen. But who do they go after next?” she asked. “Talk a little bit about why that’s so uncomfortable for so many people.”
Pritzker pushed back somewhat, drawing a distinct line between drawing historical parallels in policy and comparing Trump to Hitler directly. “I’m not suggesting, I haven’t suggested Donald Trump is Hitler,” Pritzker said.
“I don’t think any democrat has,” Wallace said. “And I actually think it’s a smear that they project back onto critics. But JD Vance called Donald Trump ‘cultural heroin.’ He called him ‘America’s Hitler.’ I mean, the attacks on Donald Trump as a fascist came from three generals who worked for him.”
However, the record shows that many prominent Democrats, and Wallace herself, have drawn parallels between Trump and Hitler.
After Trump drew cheers from a crowd as he embraced the word “nationalist” during a 2018 event, she replied, “I watch enough History Channel to know that they cheered at Hitler, too.”
Prominent Democratic politicians, for years, have been comparing Trump to Hitler.
