Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says US Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump reminds him of Adolf Hitler.
"Today, he's going to take that nation (US) back to the old days of conflict, war and everything. I mean, he reminds me of Hitler,” he told CNN on Friday.
Fox, who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006, said Trump “has offended Mexico, Mexicans, (and) immigrants. He has offended the Pope. He has offended the Chinese. He's offended everybody."
Last week, Pope Francis said that anyone who embraced Trump’s border-security positions “is not Christian.” Trump has vowed to expel undocumented immigrants and build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
The former president earlier denounced Trump's proposal that Mexico should be made to pay for the wall.
Trump, who has never held elected office, is still leading the Republican presidential primary field, despite the fact that his campaign has been marked by controversial statements, including with disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants and Muslims.
He vowed to deport 11 million undocumented workers from the United States and establish a “deportation force” for this purpose.
It is not the first time that he was compared to the German dictator. Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman said in December that Trump’s rhetoric about banning Muslims from entering the US reminds him of Hitler.
"If you go and look at your history and you read your history in the lead-up to the Second World War, this is the kind of rhetoric that allowed Hitler to move forward," Whitman said.
The New York real-estate mogul has created a furor in the US and around the world by proposing a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the United States, following a mass shooting in California.
He has also called for a database to track Muslims across the United States, and he has also said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down mosques.
