Last June, Donald Trump launched his “Make America Great Again” campaign. Who would have predicted he’d be leading the Republican nomination today? 

Here are some remarks from this “great American.” 

“Jeb Bush likes illegals because of his wife,” Trump tweeted on July 4, 2015. Trump later deleted the post.

 “Thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering,” Trump said at an Alabama rally in November, referring to the 9/11 attacks, later saying to ABC that the thousands he referred to were Muslims. No media outlet has been able to uncover any report confirming Trump’s claim. 

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump said at a rally in Iowa. That’s such a ridiculous statement, but I am prone to believe him. If none of the absurd things Trump has said and done have swayed his supporters yet, why would this? 

These quotes merely scratch the surface. It’s troubling to think such a pompous man could rally up such support. Trump was met with laughter when he entered the race. How have we not booed him off the stage? 

Maybe those Hitler comparisons on Twitter and Facebook aren’t too far off the mark. 

In the ‘90s, Trump confirmed to Vanity Fair that he had a copy of Hitler’s “My New Order” in a bedside cabinet. 

On Sunday, Trump retweeted a Mussolini quote, “It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.” In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Trump said he was unaware it was a Mussolini quote. When asked if he wanted to be associated with Mussolini, he said he wanted to be associated with good quotes. 

One could argue that Trump is merely interested in the subject of fascism, but it seems more alarming when you take into account Trump’s claims to round up every Mexican immigrant and build a wall between the United States and Mexico, or his claim for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

Not to mention the crazy propaganda song performed by the “Freedom Girls” at a Pensacola rally last month. If you haven’t seen that, you should Youtube it. It is equally entertaining as it is disturbing. 

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox has persistently criticized Trump, and on Friday said that Trump reminds him of Hitler. Last month, Anne Frank’s stepsister accused Trump of “acting like another Hitler.”  

No, Trump does not seem as evil as Hitler, but there are many parallels. 

He says anything that will get him a headline and media coverage, and what’s disheartening is how much support his ideas receive. 

Trump’s claims and ideas are also damaging to our relations with other countries. 

In response to Trump’s call for a ban on all Muslims, a statement from Dar al-Ifta, the Egyptian’s official religious body, called Trump’s remarks “hate rhetoric.” A translated tweet from French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said, “Mr. Trump, like others, stokes hatred: our ONLY enemy is radical Islamism.” 

Trump says he’ll make America great again. What’s wrong with the way it is? It is unlikely anyone will be 100 percent happy with every last law, standard or person in our country. We’re not all wired the same, and we will not all get along. It is one thing to respectfully disagree, and it is another to be intolerant. Trump rallies around elitism and narrow-mindedness. 

Trump is entertaining. That is undeniable, but does that make him qualified to be president? 

At the rate we’re going, Kanye West’s 2020 presidential bid could be taken seriously.