Music legend Linda Ronstadt compared President Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler , and said Mexicans are being targeted today the way Jews were in Germany.

If you read the history, you wont be surprised, the 10-time Grammy winner told CNN s Anderson Cooper . Its exactly the same.

Ronstadt added:

Find a common enemy for everybody to hate. I was sure that Trump was going to get elected the day he announced, and I said Its gonna be like Hitler, and the Mexicans are the new Jews. And sure enough thats what he delivered.

She said Germanys intelligentsia had a chance to stop Hitler, but didnt speak out.

The industrial complex thought that they could control him once they got him in office, and of course he was not controllable, she said, adding that Hitler then put his own people in place and stacked the countrys courts to consolidate power.

He destroyed centuries of intellectual history, forward and backward, she said.

Ronstadt, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 , retired from performing in 2011 due to a Parkinsons-like condition called progressive supranuclear palsy.

Shes the subject of a new CNN documentary, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice .