I disagree. If we think of fascism as just Mussolini and Hitler, yes, Trump is different. But fascism is more complex than that. It didn't disappear after WW2, but lived on as regimes supported by the US. They had varying degrees of theatrics and grand ideas, but a fiercely nationalist regime in cahoots with oligarchs was the model everywhere.
Trump looks very much like a dictator in Latin-America or Africa from the 1970s or 80s, including the love for gold and glamour, the gangsterism and the use of state power to enrich himself.
Nazism has been described as "boomerang imperialism", where the genocidal tactics of imperialism were brought back to Europe. I think Trump could be seen through the same lens where the imperialist tactics of US in the late 20th century are applied to US itself.
I wrote more extensively on this in April https://buttondown.com/audunmb/archive/is-trump-a-fascist-or-is-he-voldemort/
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