Fox News host Brian Kilmeade defended Donald Trump after reports said the former president had wished he had Adolf Hitler's generals.
A Wednesday morning Fox News panel discussed reporting from The Atlantic that quoted Trump wishing for Nazi generals.
"I need the kind of generals that Hitler had," Trump reportedly said during his time in the White House.
Kilmeade said he could understand Trump's frustration with the U.S. military's generals.
"[Then-National Security Adviser H.R.] McMaster would be frustrated because he couldn't get their attention, and he would say, it's not your job to rein in the president," the Fox News host explained. "It's your job to do what the president wants. And then you factor in the fact that he runs his own company coming from the business world, the first one we've ever had."
"And then [Trump] obviously has frustration," he continued. "And I could absolutely see him going out. You know what?"
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"It would be great to have German generals that actually do what we asked them to do, knowing that's a third, maybe not fully, fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals who are Nazis and whatever."
