SNOPES: Trump Didn't Call Neo-Nazis 'Very Fine People'

... but, what does fmr Pres trump really say?

Trump Goes Full Hitler by Calling Political Foes Vermin' (November 2023)
nymag.com

... Since the 2016 presidential campaign, the question of whether it's appropriate to compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler has come up repeatedly. Trump has used a slogan popularized by Nazi sympathizers, dined with antisemites, evoked white supremacist tropes, and demonized the press and his political foes as the "enemy of the people," to cite just a few examples of his allegedly Nazi-like behavior. Plus, days before the Capitol riot, the nation's top general, Mark Milley, reportedly warned aides that America was facing a "Reichstag moment" because Trump was preaching "the gospel of the Fhrer" with his stolen-election lies.

When people point out that this is all a little too Hitler-y for comfort, they're often told they're being hysterical. However, it's getting harder to deny that Trump is using Nazi rhetoric. Last month, Trump said undocumented immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." In Mein Kampf, Hitler repeatedly described Jews and migrants as "poisons" to the "blood" of Germany and the Aryan race. Trump's remark generated a few headlines but largely flew under the radar as it came 37 minutes into a video interview with the obscure right-leaning website the National Pulse.

Over the weekend, Trump used some Nazi terminology in a far more high-profile setting. During a Veterans Day speech on Saturday, he told a crowd in Claremont, New Hampshire, that his political enemies are "like vermin." Both Hitler and Italy's Benito Mussolini compared their enemies to rodents during their rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Trump said:

Today, especially, in honor of our great veterans on Veterans Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country " that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do anything possible. They'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.

The real threat is not from the racial right; the real threat is from the radical left, and it's growing every day. Every single day. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within. Because if you have a capable, competent, smart, tough leader " Russia, China, North Korea " they're not going to want to play with us.

It seems clear from the video that Trump was reading from his prepared remarks, not ad-libbing: ...