A report making the claim in The Atlantic relied on the alleged testimony of two people who had a private talk with Trump at the White House in 2020.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins speaks with Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, who talked to Gen. John Kelly about his perspective on former President Donald Trump

In an interview with the New York Times, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly, he says his former boss said more than once that “‘Hitler did some good things, too.’” Kelly also called Trump a fascist.

Trump once told Kelly that he wished he acted like the “German generals,” which he later clarified meant specifically “Hitler’s generals.” The post John Kelly Goes On The Record To Confirm Trump Once Told Him He Wished He Acted Like One Of ‘Hitler’s Generals’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Retired General John Kelly disclosed private conversations from Trump’s time in the White House, in which Trump allegedly said that he needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had.”

Then-President Trump speaks to the press with then-Chief of Staff John Kelly at the White House on July 31, 2017. Photo: Mike Theiler-Pool/

John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, is sharing fresh details on his former boss' perspective, specifically about Hitler and his generals.

Donald Trump "certainly falls into the general definition of fascist" his former chief of staff John Kelly told the New York Times in an expansive interview published Tuesday. Kelly opted to read a definition of fascism that he found online to support this conclusion.

Former President Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff John Kelly told The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg that the Republican nominee once told him that he wished his staff acted like 'German generals,