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Donald Trump reiterated that he "never knew" the loyalty pledge was a "problem." | Getty Trump defends loyalty oaths: 'We're having such a great time'

Donald Trump dismissed comparisons of his use of loyalty oaths during recent campaign rallies to Nazi Germany and other dark chapters of history on Tuesday as "ridiculous."

"I mean, we’re having such a great time," Trump told NBC's "Today" in a pre-primary telephone interview.

The loyalty pledges began at a rally Saturday in Orlando, Florida, where Trump asked the crowd: “Raise your right hand: ‘I do solemnly swear that I — no matter how I feel, no matter what the conditions, if there’s hurricanes or whatever — will vote, on or before the 12th for Donald J. Trump for president."

Recounting his "tremendous" crowds in Mississippi and Michigan, states that are both voting Tuesday, Trump told host Matt Lauer that his supporters have pushed him recently to do it.

"Sometimes we’ll do it for fun, and they’ll start screaming at me, ‘Do the swearing! Do the swearing!’ I mean, they’re having such a great time," Trump said. "They’re massive crowds. I get — you know, by far, the biggest crowds and we’re having a good time. Honestly, until this phone call, I didn’t know it was a problem.”

Trump then repeated that he "never knew it was a problem," though POLITICO had reached out to his campaign spokeswoman for comment last Saturday when a photograph of supporters raising their right hands in loyalty to Trump circulated on Twitter, with comments largely circling around the sinister historical image it evoked. “What a disgusting thing to ask. A disgrace," spokeswoman Hope Hicks said at the time.

Lauer then remarked that in combination with his rhetoric on Mexicans and Muslims, some might see parallels to Nazi Germany. On Monday, Abe Foxman, the former director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Trump's pledge a "fascist gesture," drawing comparison to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

“Well, I think that’s a big, big stretch. I mean, honestly, Matt, we’ve been having such an amazing, we’ve been having rallies that are massive. Yesterday in Mississippi, two days ago in Orlando, we had 25,000 people fill up the stadium. It was incredible," Trump said. "Considering the subject matter’s not so good, because our country is in trouble, big trouble, we are having a great time. And part of this is that, and you know that this would be brought up this morning, I’m very surprised to hear it.”

Asked whether those concerns bother him, Trump said he would not do it "if it's offensive or if there's anything wrong with it."

“Well, I’ll certainly look into it," Trump said, when pressed on whether he would stop doing the pledge. "I mean, I’d like to find out that that’s true, but I’ll certainly look into it because I don’t want to offend anybody. But I can tell you that it’s been amazingly received, well received."

Trump reiterated his defense of the pledge less than an hour later in a separate telephone interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

“They’re raising their hand in the form of a vote, not in the form of a salute," he said when asked about the Nazi comparisons some are making. "That’s crazy. I can’t believe that’s even being posed.”