Fox News anchor Jesse Watters claimed Thursday most Americans don’t know what fascism is, amid an ongoing political discussion around the topic after former Donald Trump staffers claimed the Republican meets the defition of a fascist and praised Hitler.

Brian Kilmeade of Fox News tried to defend Donald Trump after John Kelly said the former president needed “the kind of generals that Hitler had."

In what was likely meant as a defense of Donald Trump, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade asked his audience to believe that the former president might not have known Adolf Hitler's generals were Nazis.

News of the purported exchange went viral, leading to hundreds of thousands of reactions online, many of which denounce the former president for his alleged words. However, a host of Fox & Friends received backlash for seemingly defending Trump's wish to share a similarity with one of history's most evil figures.

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is under fire for what some see as him defending Donald Trump’s embrace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s regime, including reportedly saying he wanted “Hitler’s generals,” when he was president.

It would be great to have German generals [that] actually do what we asked them to do,’” Kilmeade told panelists on Fox & Friends. “Knowing that, maybe not fully being cognizant of the third rail of German generals were Nazis and whatever.