Trump Retweets “Very Good” Mussolini Quote

From Mediaite:

Good morning, here’s your daily dose of crazy Donald Trump retweet. For quick background, the Twitter account @ilduce2016 is a parody account that takes quotes from the dictator Benito Mussolini and attributes them to Trump. The Twitter account’s pic is an image of Mussolini with Trump’s hair. Yes, that is Donald Trump retweeting a Mussolini quote that a parody account attributed to Trump. Is no one checking this stuff?

Chuck Todd asked Trump about the tweet this morning:

“Do you like the quote? Did you know it was Mussolini?” Todd inquired. Trump suggested that he did, in fact, like the quote: “Sure. It’s OK to know it’s Benito Mussolini. Look, Mussolini was Mussolini. It’s OK. It’s a very good quote. It’s a very interesting quote. And I saw it and I know who said it. But what difference does it make, whether it’s Mussolini or somebody else?

“That’s probably why I have, between Facebook and Twitter, 14 million people,” Trump said of his followers. “It’s a very interesting quote, and people can talk about it,” he added. “Do you want to be associated with a fascist?” Todd asked. “No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes,” Trump replied.

UPDATE: Gawker created the parody account.gawkmusso