Illinois Gov. Pritzker Insists White House Compare Trump to Hitler and Mussolini for ‘Vermin’ Rhetoric

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker appeared to take a page from the White House playbook by comparing GOP front-runner and former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini over his use of the term “vermin” to describe his political enemies before of the presidency. 2024 presidential election.

The Democrat, one of the country’s top Jewish governors, told MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” that Trump’s comment is “just one in a long series of comments, words that Donald Trump has used that are unfortunately reminiscent of the past”. “To be clear, in Germany, in the 1930s, people who didn’t want to have power, people who wanted to separate, segregate. They started calling them immigrants, even people who had been in Germany for generations.”

“The Jews who were doctors and lawyers in the government at that time became known as immigrants, even though they were German. And this is a way to start segregating people, and then eventually, at least what happened in Germany, is that they turned it into a way to almost dehumanize. And then they actually dehumanized and killed people,” Pritzker said. “I don’t know where he’s going with Donald Trump. What I can tell you is that the things he talks about are terrifying to those of us who know the history of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. And I am deeply concerned about his predilection for the revenge.”

During a speech in Claremont, New Hampshire, before veterans day Last week, Trump promised: “We promise you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and radical left-wing thugs who live like vermin within the confines of our country and who lie, steal and cheat in elections.”

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“They will do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and destroy the American dream,” Trump said. “The threat from external forces is much less sinister, dangerous and serious than the internal threat. Our threat is internal. Because if you have a capable, competent, intelligent and tough leader, Russia, China, North Korea, they are not going to want play with us.”

Trump, recently backed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott at the US-Mexico border, has repeatedly warned that President Biden is bringing the world to the brink of a Third World War.

Former President Donald Trump poses for a photo with a service member at South Texas International Airport on November 19, 2023 in Edinburg, Texas. (Michael González/Getty Images)

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The Washington Post condemned the use of the term “vermin,” saying historians raised the alarm over concerns it echoed authoritarianism.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer talk during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting at the Hilton Midtown on September 19, 2023 in the city of NY. (John Nation/WireImage)

The White House also condemned Trump’s comment last week.

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“Using words like ‘vermin’ to describe anyone who uses their basic right to criticize the government ‘echoes dictators’ like Hitler and Mussolini,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates told reporters, citing the Post coverage. “Using terms like that about dissent would be unrecognizable to our founders, but terribly recognizable to the American veterans who wore their country’s uniform in the 1940s. President Biden believes in his oath to our constitution and in American democracy. “Work to protect both of us every day.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on Monday, but they did not immediately respond.