Former President Donald Trump addressed the meltdown by his critics over recent remarks about illegal immigrants, doubling down on his warning while snapping back at unhinged comparisons to Adolf Hitler.

At a campaign rally in New Hampshire over the weekend, Trump had said, “You know, when they let– I think the real number’s like 15, 16 million people into our country, when they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done.”

The freak-out by Democrats and others on the left was immediate, with many claiming the remarks echoed a portion of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” where he’d written, “All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning.”

Trump, echoing Hitler: Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country pic.twitter.com/tJdqGWIpcY

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) December 16, 2023

On Tuesday, Trump got a chance to respond.

“It’s crazy what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They’re destroying our country,” the 2024 GOP frontrunner said at campaign speech in Iowa.

“They don’t like it when I said that, and I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’ – in a much different way,” he continued.

“Now they’re coming from all over the world. People all over the world. We have no idea. They could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy. They could bring in disease that’s gonna catch on in our country. But they do bring in crime. But they have them coming from all over the world,” the former president added.