MexicoTwo former Mexican presidents: Trump “like Hitler” in stirring hatred along ethnic lines

Two former Mexican presidents have said the election of Donald Trump as president would have deleterious effects on U.S.-Mexican relations, and compared the Trump to Adolph Hitler.

The New York Post reports that Felipe Calderon, a conservative who served as president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, told reporters in Mexico City on Saturday that Trump’s political rhetoric was “racist” and evocative of the Nazi dictator.

“This logic of praising the 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.

Calderon added that Trump’s discourse was “sowing hate” against the United States around the world and that was “not in Washington’s interest.”

Calderon’s predecessor, Vicente Fox, compared Trump to Hitler in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.

“He’s going to take the US back to the old days of conflict, war and everything. I mean, he reminds me of Hitler. That’s the way he started speaking,” Fox told Cooper in a phone interview.

“He has offended Mexico, Mexicans, and immigrants. He has offended the Pope. He has offended the Chinese. He’s offended everybody.”

A week earlier, in another TV interview, Fox said that he would “not pay for that f—-ing wall” and called Trump “crazy,” a “false prophet,” and an embarrassment to his party.

Over the weekend, two hate-peddlers — former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and Jean-Marie Le Pen, the anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying bigot who founded the France’s National Front – have voiced their support for Trump’s candidacy.

Duke was joined in his endorsement of Trump by a coalition of white supremacist groups. The coalition of racist groups launched a pro-Trump robocall campaign in several Southern states ahead of Super Tuesday.

Duke had expressed his support for Trump in a Facebook post on Thursday:

“I think he deserves a close look by those who believe the era of political correctness needs to come to an end,” Duke wrote.

He hailed Trump’s strength on immigration, breaking up “Jewish dominated lobbies and super PACS that are corrupting and controlling American politics,” preventing war with Russia, exposing media “lies,” and ensuring “that White-Americans are allowed to preserve and promote their heritage and interests just as all other groups are allowed to do.”

Despite mounting pressure, Trump, from Thursday until Sunday, resisted pressures to disavow the endorsement by Duke and the white supremacist coalition, or repudiate their open bigotry.

Le Pen, an unabashed anti-Semite and racist, called the Nazi gas chambers a mere “detail” of history, and criticized France’s effort to help contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2015. Le Pen argued that the Ebola epidemic should be allowed to run unhindered because this would serve the interests of White Europeans: If Ebola were allowed to run free and kill millions of black Africans, this would reduce the number of black Africans left who would try to immigrate to Europe.

Ebola could clear up Europe’s immigration problem “in three months,” Le pen claimed.

Le Pen also called for France to support Vladimir Putin in his efforts to save the “white world.” The year before, Le Pen had famously claimed that

The Telegraph reports that over the weekend, Trump quoted the words of Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in a Twitter message to his followers. Trump passed on the Mussolini line, “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”

Asked why, of all people, he had quoted Mussolini, Trump said:

“Look, Mussolini was Mussolini. It’s a very good quote, it’s a very interesting quote.

“I know who said it but what difference does it make whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else? It’s certainly a very interesting quote.”

Asked whether he wanted to be associated with a fascist, Trump said: “No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes. Hey, it got your attention didn’t it?”