JB Pritzker Says He Never Called Trump A ‘Nazi’. Cue The Tape
Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed that he never called President Donald Trump and Republicans “Nazis,” but several tapes of the governor show he did indeed invoke the fascist regime. Pritzker denied during…
Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker claimed that he never called President Donald Trump and Republicans “Nazis,” but several tapes of the governor show he did indeed invoke the fascist regime.
Pritzker denied during a Monday press conference that he had ever called Republicans “Nazis,” though he has compared Trump, tech billionaire Elon Musk and the Republican Party as a whole to Nazi Germany. The rhetoric from himself and many other political leaders has come into question following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk by an individual who subscribed to left-wing and transgender ideology.
“No, I have not. That is completely false. I have never called Republicans Nazis. That’s what would like to say, they’re lying. They’re lying,” Pritzker said. “Well, that’s not what I called them.”
During a Feb. 28, 2025, appearance on “The View,” Pritzker said that Trump has been “tearing down constitutional democracy” in the same way that Adolf Hitler did during Nazi Germany. He also repeatedly stated that the Trump administration’s supposed dismantling of a “constitutional republic” mirrored Nazi Germany.
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Ahead of the 2024 election, Pritzker wrote in an Oct. 23, 2024, X post that Trump “praises and romanticizes” Hitler and was a “dictator-in-waiting.”
“The way Donald Trump praises and romanticizes Hitler is unhinged, disturbing, and disqualifying. He is a dictator-in-waiting. We know exactly what he’ll do if he’s in power again. It cannot happen,” Pritzker said.