If Governor JB Pritzker plans to throw his hat into the 2028 presidential ring — and all signs suggest he does — he’s off to a deeply contradictory start. Of all the Democratic heavyweights circling the runway, few have leaned harder into comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler than Pritzker. Yet oddly, when asked directly about those comparisons, he insists they never happened.
The pattern is familiar by now: make the incendiary claim, let it make the rounds on social media, then backpedal when faced with real-time scrutiny — especially from friendly interviewers. Take Pritzker’s recent appearance on Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC podcast. Incredibly, just a week after comparing the U.S. to 1930s Germany, Pritzker claimed with a straight face that he’s “never suggested Donald Trump is Hitler.” Wallace, instead of fact-checking him, immediately chimed in with, “I don’t think any Democrat has.”
JB Pritzker: “I haven’t suggested that Trump is Hitler.”
Here’s one minute straight of JB Pritzker comparing Trump and his administration to Hitler
.@jbpritzker is a disgusting liar pic.twitter.com/KkUFA0l5ro
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 27, 2025
That moment wasn’t just a soft landing. It was a deliberate rewrite of the public record — one easily disproven.
Start with Pritzker himself. In October 2024, he tweeted: “The way Donald Trump praises and romanticizes Hitler is unhinged, disturbing, and disqualifying. He is a dictator-in-waiting.” How exactly is that not drawing a line between Trump and Hitler? Go back further to Charlottesville in 2017, and Pritzker accused Trump of “openly sympathizing with Nazis on national television.” And again in 2024, during Biden’s disastrous debate performance, he recycled the same claim — that Trump praised neo-Nazis and is now lying about it.
Each of these statements stands in stark contrast to Pritzker’s latest denials. It’s one thing to shift rhetorical tone as the stakes change, but it’s quite another to feign innocence while your digital footprint is littered with examples to the contrary.
JB Pritzker: I never called them Nazis
Also JB Pritzker: OK, so maybe I called Trump Hitler and Republicans nazis on a dozen occasions…pic.twitter.com/28MLpXvaec
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 15, 2025
The irony, of course, is that while Pritzker accuses Trump of authoritarianism, he himself wielded sweeping emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illinois residents endured some of the nation’s strictest and most prolonged lockdowns, yet the governor and his family were curiously exempt from many of the mandates. Businesses were shuttered, livelihoods upended — all while Pritzker enjoyed the view from the governor’s mansion. That’s not a footnote; that’s part of his governing legacy.
So when he warns about “pieces of authoritarian activity” happening in America, it might be worth asking whether he’s looking in the mirror.
