President Donald Trump appears to have unleashed a "Nazi problem" in the U.S. that won't disappear anytime soon, according to one journalist.
Mehdi Hasan, founder of Zeteo News, penned a new op-ed for The Guardian in which he argued that the Trump administration has overtly adopted Nazi propaganda techniques. He cited the use of certain phrases that seem to harken back to Nazi slogans and imagery shared on government social media accounts.
Hasan also noted that multiple people in the Trump administration, from Ed Martin at the Department of Justice to Paul Ingrassia at the Government Services Administration, have ties to Nazi groups.
"To be clear: this isn’t about calling everyone the left disagrees with a Nazi, as Trump administration spokespersons like to claim; it’s about recognizing when actual Nazis are not just right in front of us but in power," Hasan wrote. "So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery."
Hasan added that Nazi groups have seen the signals flying around the Trump campaign as well. He quoted the founder of a known white supremacist group who proclaimed, “Our side won the election," after Trump retook the White House in 2024.
"But don’t expect any of that to stop any time soon," Hasan continued. "In his first term, the president praised neo-Nazis as 'very fine people' and then his acolytes spent years desperately denying he had ever done so. Today, there is very little denial, shame, or contrition. The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging."
