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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto gives the opening address to attendees of the annual IHS CERAWeek global energy conference Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, in Houston. | AP Photo Mexican president compares Trump to Hitler, Mussolini

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto condemned Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s rhetoric, likening it to language from Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Peña Nieto told Mexico City newspaper Excelsior that Trump’s “strident expressions” put forth “very simple solutions.” That kind of rhetoric, he said, has led to “very fateful scenes in the history of humanity.”

Trump last summer pledged to build a wall on the southern border — and have Mexico pay for it — to keep out Mexican immigrants. In his June speech announcing his campaign, the New York mogul said Mexico was sending over rapists and people who bring drugs and crime. He has also proposed a temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S.

“That's the way Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived,” said Peña Nieto, who accused the accused the brash billionaire of damaging U.S.-Mexico relations in a separate interview with El Universal.

“It appears to me that (Trump's comments) hurt the relationship we have sought with the United States,” he said in an interview with published Monday, as reported by The Associated Press.

Peña Nieto added, however, that he would be respectful of the country’s political process and said Mexico will try to work with whoever the U.S. elects in November.

Trump’s wall proposal has gotten blowback from Peña Nieto and former Mexican presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. Peña Nieto said “there is no scenario” in which Mexico would pay for the wall. Fox has called on Trump to drop out of the presidential race and insisted Mexico will not “pay for that f---ing wall,” while Calderon has said that “we are not going to pay any single cent for such a stupid wall.”

In response, Trump has been adamant that the wall he originally proposed will be 10 feet higher.