On Saturday, former Hardball host Chris Matthews returned to his old network, now under its Versant name of MS NOW, to compare President Trump to past European dictators because of several Trump-designed Washington, D.C., construction projects. Matthews declared he “can’t accuse anybody of being Hitler” before he then compared Trump to former Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The conversation on Alex Witt Reports was based on more media obsession with the Kennedy Center, as host Alex Witt asked, “How do you view the slew of vanity projects driven by the president, including his efforts to attach his name in one way or the other to the Kennedy Center?”
Matthews responded and acted as if he was better than comparing Trump to Hitler: ”Well, you know, we can’t accuse anybody of being Hitler because there’s only one Hitler, fortunately. There’s only one guy that killed all the people and created a war that cost the lives of 50 million people. Not just the holocaust. That war everywhere.”
On Saturday, former Hardball host Chris Matthews, talking about new possible monument projects around DC, said one cannot compare Trump to Hitler, but instead said: “I think he is Mussolini.” pic.twitter.com/ySC4z73uGy— Nick (@nspin310) August 31, 2026
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