'You sound like a complete Leftie!' Christopher Hope’s jaw hits the floor as top Tory compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler

Delivering his stark assessment, Lord Hannan told GB News: "The classic sort of giveaway of a tin pot dictatorship is when people couldn't understand that there were institutions independent of the state, when people would say, 'why doesn't British Airways fly to my capital', and you'd say, 'well, it's really nothing to do with the British Government'.

"This is how he is talking about the Nobel Prize, and I can only think of two other governments in history that have protested about the Nobel Prize going to someone they didn't like. One was China in 2010 when it went to a dissident, and one was Hitler in 1936 when it went to a German pacifist.

"But even they were not complaining because they didn't win it - this is this is beyond narcissism. This is now a kind of clinical derangement. And if the system didn't work either with an obviously senescent Biden or with an obviously doolally Trump, then something has gone badly wrong."

Taken aback by Lord Hannan's remarks, host Martin Daubney responded: "Well... Doolally, and mentioning him in the same breath as Adolf Hitler, Chris Hope here is champing at the bit to get stuck in!"

Christopher told Lord Hannan: "My jaw's hit my desk, to hear a Tory Peer called Lord Hannan describing Trump as a tin pot dictator, unpredictable and like Hitler. Surely Lord Hannan, you've been around as long as I have observing politics. You're involved in politics now, isn't this an individual who is simply trying to create space for a deal?

"He says outlandish things, unpredictable things, he's got his targets, he wants to do a deal on Greenland, and he wants other things, too. Is he not just saying things to get a reaction? Create the space for a deal to be done?

"But to call him Hitler, you sound like a complete Leftie, Lord Hannan!"

Lord Hannan responded: "Well, if there were a real deal to be done in terms of stationing more troops in Greenland or something, that would be one thing, but there isn't.

"There are always these people, Chris, who do what you've just done, I'm afraid, which is to come out with all these justifications that he himself never advances. 'Oh, it's all about missiles or rare minerals or something'.

"There's always this army of sophists and apologists, because they don't want to face up to the fact that we are dealing with a vainglorious man child who throws a tantrum whenever he doesn't get his way."

He added: "Whether it's a business deal, a round of golf, or the 2020 election, he just can't stand not losing. And that is something that the founders of the US recognised as a danger to the Republic, they called it Caesarism. And they would have clocked him for a two-bit Caesarist immediately, they knew people like him.

"What would I think really have horrified them is the passivity of the institutions around him, their reluctance to do anything because they're so focused on their own careers."

Taking further aim at Mr Trump, Lord Hannan told GB News: "That wasn't the speech of anyone damping things down - when he said 'we handed Denmark back, how stupid were we to do that?' Well, the reason that the US and the UK were in the Second World War is because we were against countries invading other countries just because they could.

"We'd signed the Atlantic Charter at the end of 1940. We committed ourselves to a set of principles to make the world safer and better, and one of those principles is that negotiation is preferable to war, that you don't change borders by force, that you recognise the territorial jurisdiction of other countries."

He added: "So Donald Trump is the first US leader since then to have rejected that doctrine and said, you can just take what you want because you're stronger and you've got to ask, was it going too far to say he was he was losing it?

"How else do you interpret a guy writing to the Prime minister of Norway to say, because I have not been given the Nobel Peace Prize, I might just invade another country to show you all, by the way, not a country controlled by Norway.

"Even if Norway were in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize as a state, this brilliantly third world way of refusing to recognise that the Nobel Prize committee is independent of the government of Norway. So, yeah, we are dealing with somebody, I'm afraid, who is now a threat to the global order that has made us richer and safer and more successful and freer for 70 years, and of which the US has been the main beneficiary."

Asked by Martin if he believes Donald Trump's bid for Greenland is simply "naked expansionism that should be stopped", Lord Hannan said: "The trouble with that is there is nothing that he couldn't do today under a treaty going back to 1952. The US can station whatever it wants for defence purposes. Greenland is already a part of the US, but the US has not been using that right.

"Its been running down its installations in Greenland, it's gone from a peak of over 6,000 troops in the Cold War to fewer than 200 now. Now, I don't think this has anything to do with defence. If it were, a deal could indeed be done.

"But there is nothing that the US can't do now. I think Donald Trump let the cat out of the bag when he said, I have a psychological need, and I think this is all about wanting to be remembered as the guy who enlarged the US. And this is profoundly un-American."