Kelly told The New York Times in an extensive interview that Trump spoke positively of Hitler while in office. Kelly expressed overall concern that Trump would act more like a dictator if elected to another four years in the White House and said, in his view, the former president fit the definition of a "fascist."

In an interview with the New York Times, former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Donald Trump has praised Adolf Hitler and called him a fascist.

Donald Trump has insisted that he’s actually the “opposite” of Adolf Hitler, after his longest-serving chief of staff John Kelly described him as a “fascist” who spoke fondly of the Nazi Germany dictator.