Donald Trump says he’s the ‘opposite of a Nazi’ before calling Kamala Harris a fascist

Donald Trump has fired back at Kamala Harris after she labelled him a “fascist” and a “Nazi” following his rally at Madison Square Garden.

Former President Donald Trump has dismissed criticisms that he is a fascist and comparisons to his rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend to a 1939 gathering of Nazis at the same venue.

“America’s Hitler” and “Nazi rally” have also been trending on X in the wake of his rally in New York yesterday.

“The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn’t voting for her is a Nazi, we’re Nazis,” Mr Trump told his audience at a Georgia rally.

“You know, years ago, my father, I had a great father, he was a tough guy, he used to always say, ‘Never use the word Nazi, never use that word’, and he’d say, ‘Never use the word Hitler, don’t use that word’.

“It’s like, I didn’t even know why, ‘Don’t use that word’, and then I understood it.

“And yet, they use that word freely, both words. They use it, ‘He’s Hitler’, and then they say, ‘He’s a Nazi’. I’m not a Nazi, I’m the opposite of a Nazi, I don’t know.”

Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at McCamish Pavilion on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Picture: AFP

It comes after the Trump campaign made the unusual step of distancing the president from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe after a ‘joke’ about the “floating island of hot garbage”, Puerto Rico, at yesterday’s MAGA rally in Madison Square Gardens,

Campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said in a statement: “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Hinchcliffe, for his part, said the joke was taken out of context to make it seem racist: “These people have no sense of humour”.

But with the fallout overshadowing Mr Trump’s New York extravaganza, the former president’s allies fell over themselves to denounce the joke and its author.

The firestorm threatens to stall Mr Trump’s momentum in the closing week of the election.

After reclaiming the lead in the national popular vote for the first time since August 4, Mr Trump will this week travel to New Mexico in an attempt to expand the battleground states.

Ms Harris, meanwhile, will deliver her closing speech this week in Washington DC at the Ellipse, the park where Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to march “peacefully and patriotically” on January 6, 2020. Just as a riot broke out at the US Capitol.

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