With more people drawing comparisons between former President Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric and the words of Adolf Hitler, an old interview about Trump's alleged interest in Hitler has also resurfaced. In a 1990 Vanity Fair article that included an interview with the former president's first wife Ivana Trump, Ivana said that Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed. At the time, Trump allegedly said that a friend gave him the book. "If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them," he is quoted as saying at that time.
Now that the interview has resurfaced and some of what Trump has said on the campaign trail has been compared to Hitler, Trump told the audience at his rally in Iowa on December 19 that he "never read Mein Kampf.”
Trump's reference to the book also comes after many criticized a speech he gave in New Hampshire. Referring immigrants, he said they are "poisoning the blood of our county" at his rally in New Hampshire on December 16.
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The "blood poisoning" remarks reminded many of something that Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. "All great cultures of the past perished only because the original creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote in the book.
At his Iowa rally on December 19, Trump continued making comparable statements about immigrants, despite the criticism. After saying that he has never read Mein Kampf, he continued by saying, "They said Hitler said that — in a much different way. No, they’re coming from all over the world — people all over the world. We have no idea — they could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy, they could bring in disease that’s going to catch on in our country."
"They’re destroying the blood of the country, they’re destroying the fabric of our country, and we’re going to have to get them out," he continued.
In an interview with MSNBC, Vice President Kamala Harris said that Trump has been using "language that is meant to divide us." "It is language that I think people have rightly found similar to the language of Hitler," she said.
"I think it’s just critically important that we remind each other, including our children, that the true measure of the strength of a leader is based not on who they beat down, but who they lift up," Harris continued.
Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, also spoke up about the rhetoric Trump has been using on the campaign trail. “Republicans generally — whether it’s Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump or anybody else — we should be talking about this in terms of what it means to humanity," he told CNN.
"I don’t think we should be talking about this issue from a perspective of blood or whatever the president said, what I think we should be saying is there are human beings suffering," he continued.
