An interview with former President Donald Trump's late first wife, in which she claims he owned a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches that he gave at his bedside, resurfaces after Trump said migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country' .
At one collection in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump stood before a crowd of MAGA Republicans and said illegal immigrants were “poisoning mental institutions and prisons around the world.”
Although he did not address how migrants “poison” mental institutions and prisons, Trump's words are similar to those of Adolf Hitler, who used the same phrase in his book Mein Kampf.
Several points of sale have one Vanity Fair profile from 1990 that Ivana, Trump's wife at the time and now ex-wife, told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband kept My New Order next to his bed, a book of Hitler's speeches. Trump denied the accusation.
“When he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, 'Heil Hitler,' possibly as a family joke,” wrote Marie Brenner, reporting for the magazine.
An interview with former President Donald Trump's late first wife, in which she claims he owned a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches that he gave at his bedside, resurfaces after Trump said migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country'
She later quoted Trump in response to the accusation, saying, “If I had given these speeches, and I'm not saying I do, I would never read them.”
Adolf Hitler is one of the most prolific dictators in history. He came to power as leader of the Nazi Party, became Chancellor in 1933 and then took the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Ivana Trump – who divorced the former president in 1990 – died in 2022. Trump has since been married twice more: to Marla Maples from 1993 to 1999 and to current wife Melania Trump since 2005.
Trump told his supporters in a speech in New Hampshire on Saturday that migrants from “all over the world” are “poisoning the blood of our country” – a phrase he borrowed from Hitler.
“All the great cultures of the past have perished only because the original creative race has become extinct through blood poisoning,” the German dictator wrote in his 1925 manifesto.
Trump also told his followers, “We've got a lot of work to do – you know, if they let it, I think the real number is 15, 16 million people coming into our country. If they do, we have a lot of work to do.”
It is unclear where he got this figure from, because the US Customs and Border Protection reported that three million migrants crossed the border in 2023 – not 15 or 16 million, as Trump claimed.
He explained that the migrants had “poisoned” mental institutions and prisons “all over the world” – not just in South America and not just in the “three or four countries we are thinking about.”
Trump told his supporters in a speech in New Hampshire on Saturday that migrants from “all over the world” are “poisoning the blood of our country” – a phrase he copied from Hitler
Adolf Hitler is one of the most prolific dictators in history. He came to power as leader of the Nazi Party, became Chancellor in 1933 and then took the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
At a rally in New Hampshire, former President Donald Trump stood before a crowd of MAGA Republicans and said illegal immigrants were 'poisoning mental institutions and prisons around the world'
Trump said immigrants are “pouring into our country” from Africa, Asia and around the world. He even claimed that 'no one even looks at them, they just come in'.
The former president then ranted incoherently: “Crime is going to be huge, terrorism is going to be huge, terrorism will… and we built a huge section of the wall and then we're going to build more and the election was rigged.
“We didn't do it, but I thought they were just going to throw it up – it was all built, it was all ready to just be lifted up. The exact wall where the Border Patrol, who are incredible, Brandon Judd and all the people at the Border Patrol, designed exactly that.”
By the time Biden took office in January 2021, only 450 miles of wall had been built, and only 40 miles of that wall was brand new, most of it replacing the old fencing — so Trump's claims that the wall was “all built” are true not.
These 458 miles are a fraction of the 1,954 mile US-Mexico border, POLITICS reported.
It was previously claimed that Trump had compared himself to Hitler by former Chief of Staff John Kelly.
Donald Trump apparently induced a history lesson in a 'stunned' Kelly during a 2018 trip to Europe, when the then-president said: 'Hitler did a lot of good things,' a new book claims
Kelly immediately pushed back against the comment, according to Michael Bender's book Frankly, We Did Win This Election obtained by The Guardian.
It was previously claimed that Trump had compared himself to Hitler by former Chief of Staff John Kelly
A new book describes Donald Trump (right) as “stunning” then-chief of staff John Kelly (left) when he said that “Hitler did a lot of good things” during a 2018 trip to Europe to commemorate the end of the First World War. The duo lays flowers at Kelly's son's grave at Arlington National Cemetery on May 29, 2017
“You can never say anything that supports Adolf Hitler,” Kelly told Trump during a 2018 trip to Europe to mark the centennial of the end of World War I, Bender wrote in excerpts published Wednesday. “That's just not possible.”
Trump, however, was undeterred by Kelly's shock and instead praised the Nazi leader's efforts to pull the German economy out of disarray in the 1930s after World War I.
Bender wrote that Kelly told Trump that the German people “would have been better off poor than subjected to Nazi genocide.”
The Wall Street Journal reporter said Trump denied making the comment.
“This is completely false,” Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington told DailyMail.com. 'President Trump never said this'
“It's fake news made up, probably by a general who was incompetent and fired,” she added, taking a swipe at the former chief of staff.
A December 2018 report revealed that Kelly and Trump were no longer speaking and on December 28, 2018, the then-president announced that Kelly would leave by the end of the year.
The White House announced that Mick Mulvaney would replace Kelly as White House chief of staff.
Trump's comments that appeared to praise Hitler prompted his then-chief of staff to give him a brief history lesson on the different sides of World War II, Bedner wrote in excerpts of his book.
Kelly “reminded the president of which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots of World War I with World War II and all of Hitler's atrocities,” Bender writes.
Trump has denied making these comments.