Former first lady Melania Trump on Tuesday ripped the “terrible” Democrat-led attacks suggesting her husband, Donald Trump, is a second Hitler.
“It’s terrible,” Melania, 54, said of the recent rhetoric during a sit-down with Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”
“He’s not Hitler. All of his supporters, they’re standing behind him because they want to see country successful — and we see what kind of support he has.”
Melania defended Donald Trump on “Fox & Friends,” saying he “loves his country and he wants to make it successful … for all of the people.” Fox News“He loves his country and he wants to make it successful … for all of the people. You know, he loves people and he wants to make this country great again,” she added.
It comes just days after Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz was widely slammed for comparing Trump’s Sunday Madison Square Garden rally to a notorious pro-Nazi event held in the arena’s predecessor site 85 years ago.
“Donald Trump’s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden,” Walz said during a stop in Henderson, Nev. “There’s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the 1930s at Madison Square Garden.”
Left-leaning networks – including MSNBC — quickly pushed the comparison by splicing together footage from the hateful 1939 rally by the German American Bund with clips of Trump’s supporters in the Big Apple.
The Trump campaign and Republicans quickly denounced the comparison, ripping it as a “shameful” attack.
The Harris campaign has for weeks been bashing Trump, 78, for apparently expressing admiration for “fascists” like Hitler.
The former first lady said her husband is “not Hitler,” calling those attacks “terrible.” AFP via Getty ImagesHarris suggested last week that Trump was a tyrant-in-waiting who admired the Nazi leader — as she argued her GOP rival wanted to gain “unchecked” authority after the Nov. 5 election.
“It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,” Harris said at a hastily arranged press event in DC.
“All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is.”
Soon after Harris spoke, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre then told reporters that President Joe Biden, too, regards Trump as a “fascist.”
“Yes,” Jean-Pierre said. “We cannot ignore or forget what happened on Jan. 6 [2021].”
“To be praising Adolf Hilter is dangerous and it’s also disgusting.”
The reactions came after Trump’s former White House chief of staff John Kelly was quoted by The Atlantic earlier this month saying that the former president had spoken positively about “Hitler’s generals” and had shown disdain for US military service members while in the White House.
