“The left is going to be very upset with this” said Dan Bongos, a republican strategist for the It’s Always The Same Map Institution. “Radical leftists think Hitler was a bad guy because he murdered six million Jews and well over 5 million Soviet citizens. It’s the left gone absolutely crazy if they think this.”

Trump later took to Truth Social to share a doctored image of himself hugging Hitler and the flag with the caption “AMERICA FIRST”.