Hillary Clinton Enrages MAGA World by Comparing Trump to Hitler

Supporters of ex-President Donald Trump raged at Hillary Clinton after the former secretary of state compared Trump with Adolf Hitler while appearing on ABC's The View Wednesday.

Clinton, a Democrat who lost the presidential election on November 8, 2016, to Trump, was asked by show host Sunny Hostin about her opinion of a hypothetical reelection of Trump to the White House in 2024. The former president is the frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, and preliminary polling shows that next November could be a close race between Trump and President Joe Biden, who leads the race for Democratic nominee.

"Oh, I can't even, I can't even think that, because I think it would be the end of our country as we know it," Clinton told Hostin. "And I don't say that lightly."

Clinton continued to say that even though she "hated losing" to Trump, she tried to "give him a chance" in the White House.

"And then literally from his inauguration on, it was nothing but, you know, accusing people of things, making up facts, denying the size of the crowd at his own inauguration," she added. "And everything that I worried about, I saw unfolding."

"You know, when I was secretary of state, I used to talk about one and done," Clinton added later. "And what I meant by that is that people would get legitimately elected, and then they would try to do away with elections, and do away with opposition and do away with a free press."

"And you could see it in countries where, well, Hitler was duly elected," Clinton added, which was met with agreement from Hostin.

"And so all of a sudden, somebody with those tendencies, those dictatorial, authoritarian tendencies, would be like, 'OK, we're going to shut this down. We're going to throw these people in jail,'" she continued. "And they didn't usually telegraph that. Trump is telling us what he intends to do."

Conservatives, such as political commentator and Trump supporter Collin Rugg, reacted to Clinton's remarks on X, formerly Twitter, claiming that the ex-secretary of state's comments were actually descriptive of Democrats.

"While many of her supporters are making anti-Semitic comments & calling for the end of Israel, twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton compares Trump to Hitler," Rugg wrote. "Clinton tried explaining how Trump was similar to Hitler but instead explained exactly what Democrats are doing."

Joey Mannarino, conservative podcast host, echoed Rugg in his own post to X, writing alongside a clip of Clinton's appearance on The View, "Funny thing but it's actually members of her own party whose antisemitism rivals Hitler's, not Trump."

Political commentator and comedian Chad Prather also insinuated that Clinton's statements actually reflected the Democratic Party, writing on X, "Did Hillary Clinton just disclose the Democrat's plan if they keep the White House in 2024."

Other users dismissed Clinton's remarks, such as conservative reporter Nick Sortor, a previous correspondent on Tucker Carlson Tonight, who wrote on X, "Why the hell won't she just go away?"

Newsweek reached out to Trump's press team via email for comment Wednesday evening.

Wednesday was not the first time that Trump has been compared to Hitler. Such juxtaposition first arose during his 2016 presidential campaign, and critics of Trump have continued to point at similarities between the former president and the notorious World War II-era German dictator and leader of the Nazi Party. In September 2022, after Trump held a rally in Ohio ahead of the midterm elections, retired four-star U.S. Army General Barry McCaffrey compared the former president's speech to a rally Hitler held in 1936 in Germany.

"Astonishing Trump language," McCaffrey wrote on X. "The crowd is similar to a Nuremberg rally 1936. A lawless Trump in office in 2024 election would slide us into autocracy and deny our Constitutional safeguards. This is our greatest danger as a nation since 1860. VOTE."

In July, a campaign email sent by Trump's team again reignited comparisons between his team and the Nazi Party. The email had depicted Biden as being controlled by Democratic mega-donor George Soros, a Jewish philanthropist, like a puppet. Users on X compared the picture to Nazi propaganda that was distributed throughout Europe in the 1930s and '40s, including Alex Hearn, a writer for several Jewish publications.

"Criticizing Soros isn't antisemitic, but this is because he is represented in antisemitic terms," Hearn wrote. "It is the fantasy of the evil Jew secretly running the world by undermining countries. That is why it looks so similar to Nazi propaganda."