Trump Settles On ‘I’m Not Hitler’ As His Campaign’s Closing Argument

Attacks from the Harris Campaign and his former staffers have caused Donald Trump to settle on a very unsettling closing message for his campaign: “I’m Not Hitler.” That’s probably not the message that his campaign wanted him to have to issue in the final days before the election, but that’s what they’ve had to go with after repeated attacks on his authoritarian ambitions. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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Even though it's been overshadowed by his, uh, hate rally at Madison Square Garden this past weekend. Prior to that, we were dealing with a lot of former people that worked for Donald Trump telling us that the guy is basically Hitler. You know what JD Vance said back in 2016, but now he's Trump's running mate. And Vice President Kamala Harris was asked in an interview last week if she thought Donald Trump as a fascist. She said, yes. A new poll out late last week showed that 50% of the country believes that Donald Trump is a fascist. When they were given the definition of fascism, they said, yes, that's Trump. So it's not like they just said it because they didn't know what it meant. They were explained what it meant, and they said, yes, that's him. So Trump's dealing with a lot of, is he or is he not Hitler? And because of those attacks, Donald Trump has been forced to kind of change up the closing message for his campaign and the closing message for his campaign. Instead of being about the economy, instead of being about his horrible immigration plans, instead of being about his awful tariffs, his closing message is, now I am not Hitler.

Not exactly where your campaign should be, just days before the election. You shouldn't have to be going out there and saying like, Hey, vote for me because I'm not Hitler. Here's what Donald Trump actually said at a rally in North Carolina this week where he delivered this closing argument for the past nine years. Kamala and her party have called us racist bigots, fascist deplorables, irredeemables, Nazis, and they've called me Hitler. Now we're called Nazis, and I'm called Hitler. I'm not Hitler I told him for years, literally never used the term Nazi or Hitler talking about his dad. Uh, now they're using it on us. It's unbelievable. They've bullied you, they've demeaned us, they've demonized us and censored us and de platformed us and weaponized the power of our own government against us. And then he looked at the journalists in the room and called them scum. But he is not Hitler. So when you go to the polls next week, or if you're early voting this week, or voting by mail, just remember, Trump wants you to know not where he stands on economics, not where he stands on foreign policy, domestic policy, immigration. He doesn't want you to remember any of that. He just wants you to know he's not as bad as Hitler.

That's his closing message that that is like the last thing that he's telling American voters before they go vote is, I'm not as bad as Hitler. If that's your campaign's closing message, you've already lost. If you are having to sit and respond to the people who worked for you, comparing you to Hitler, talking about how you liked Hitler, then you've lost the game. And at that point, anybody

Who votes for you is basically saying, I'm okay with Hitler Light. I'm okay with, you know, the diet, Hitler, whatever you want to call it. But that's what you're saying if you're voting for this guy. In fact, it's so bad. Melania Trump actually came out of hiding this week, went on Fox and Friends, and said that her husband, the man who she spends no time with at all, he's not Hitler, so this is their closing message. Everybody vote for Trump because he's slightly better than Adolf Hitler. Just slightly.