Donald Trump shrugs off comparisons to Hitler

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shrugged off comparisons to Hitler on Tuesday after he called for a"total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

In a phone interview with GeorgeStephanopouloson Good Morning America, Trump was characteristically blunt about such criticisms.

Trump referredhere toFranklin Roosevelt's ordered internment of 100,000 Japanese-American civilians during the Second World War.

OnMSNBC, the subject of Japanese internment also came up.

The interviews on four major Americanmorning news shows came after Trump on Mondaycalled for the ban on Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

This prompted many comparisons to the Nazi leader Adolph Hilterin news media and social media.

One of the most blatant was the front page of the Philadelphia Daily News and its headline pun on Hitler'stitle "fuehrer."

A similar photo was used in the Times of Israel.

And the newswebsite Mondoweisswent with this picture.

There were manycolumnists, commentators and others comparingTrump to Hitler on Twitter.

This isn't the first time that Trump has faced questions about his thoughts on Hitler's politics.