Let's keep in mind what Trump meant by nationalist is love of country, patriotism, and America first. He clarifies in interview, Trump: Nationalism Means I Love The Country; I'm Not A Globalist, I Want To Take Care Of U.S. First:
INGRAHAM: The word “nationalism” has taken off, for the Left, this connotation of feeling anti-Semitism, hate, even violence. Do you think that is fair? And do you want to further clarify --
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: No.
INGRAHAM: -- what “nationalism” means to you?
TRUMP: No. To me, I don’t have to clarify. It means I love the country, it means I’m fighting for the country. I look at two things, globalists and nationalists. I’m somebody that wants to take care of our country, because for many, many years, you know this better than anybody -- our leaders have been more worried about the world than they have about the United States and they leave us in a mess -- whether it’s the wars, whether it’s the economy, whether it’s debt, whether it’s all of the things that they’ve done, including putting in the wrong Supreme Court Justices and we’re -- we’ve really put two great ones in -- no, I’m proud of this country and I call that “nationalism”; I call it being a nationalist and I don’t see any other connotation than that.
Liberals can try to reframe that as sodmething else but doing so is intellectually dishonest.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler