On Sunday, while former President Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City was underway, an MSNBC host drew a comparison between the event and the notorious Nazi rally held at the same venue in February 1939.

MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart began his critique by quoting Trump’s former chief of staff, General John Kelly, who described Trump as a “fascist.” He then launched into a scathing tirade, overlooking the fact that it is often American leftists who resort to violence against conservatives willing to speak out.

He added:

That jamboree, happening right now, you see it right there on your screen, in that place, is particularly chilling, because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader, Adolph Hitler, packed the Garden for a so-called “Pro-America” rally.

A rally where speakers voiced anti-Semitic rhetoric from a stage draped with Nazi banners. When a Jewish protester rushed the stage, the Associated Press reported, “Instantly a dozen or more Storm Troopers set upon him, knocking him down and beating him while he held his head in his arms. … Most of his clothing was torn from his body. Later, he was booked for disorderly conduct.”

Capehart then repeated another left-wing exaggeration and falsehood.

“Now, against that backdrop of history, Donald Trump, the man who has threatened to use the military against opponents he calls enemies from within, who has threatened to use the troops to quell what he says are lawless cities, and to use those troops to carry out mass deportations of immigrants, is once again turning Madison Square Garden into a staging ground for extremism,” Capehart declared.

That led X Owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk to comment on MSNBC’s incendiary rhetoric, writing on X, “Wow, MSNBC is utter scum of the Earth.”

Wow, MSNBC is utter scum of the Earth

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2024

The Daily Wire noted correctly:

The notion of Trump being a fascist leader of Nazis is ludicrous, considering Trump as president was the strongest supporter of the state of Israel of any American president in Israel’s history. Ironically, in 1924, the Democratic National Convention was also held in Madison Square Garden, and much of the controversy revolved around whether or not to denounce the racist Ku Klux Klan.

And both of the Democratic National Conventions that nominated Jimmy Carter —who hated Israel so much he drafted the strategy and wording for a speech arch-terrorist Yassar Arafat would deliver, as Carter’s biographer Douglas Brinkley noted — were held in Madison Square Garden.