Mexico’s former presidents liken Trump to Hitler
MEXICO CITY—US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s political rhetoric is “racist,” and evocative of Adolf Hitler, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told reporters at an event in Mexico City on Saturday.
“This logic of praising white supremacy is not just anti-immigration,” Calderon said. “He is acting and speaking out against immigrants that have a different skin color than he does, it is frankly racist and he is exploiting feelings like Hitler did in his time,” Calderon said.
Trump has accused Mexico of sending rapists and drug runners across the US border, and said he would make Mexicans pay for a wall on the border.
Calderon also said Trump’s discourse was “sowing hate” against the United States around the world and this was not in Washington’s interest.
Felipe Calderon was president of Mexico from 2006-2012.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, Calderon’s predecessor, also compared Trump to Hitler in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
“He reminds me of Hitler,” Fox told Cooper on Friday.
In interviews with Univision and Mexican media, Fox also called Trump “crazy,” a “false prophet” and an embarrassment to his party. When asked about Trump’s assertion that he was going to get Mexico to pay for his proposed border wall, Fox used an explicative to make his point that the country would never do so.
Trump said Fox ought to be “ashamed of himself” for his vulgarity and demanded an apology.