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I'm gonna say no he wasn't (past tense), he was an opportunist that used others to seek position and power and ego.
The fascism came through being the path of lowest resistance to what he wants. If an alternative non-fascist path had less resistance he could have been the woke president, he's exactly that uncommitted to any cause, he is a media figure who will mold himself into any shape that would be successful. He molded himself into the fascist because it ultimately was the easiest way to reconcile the contradictions in the right, the fighting factions previously divided now show very little sign of division. These contradictions were not resolved in his first term and he was not wholly a fascist at that time but he certainly is now.
What this means ideologically however is to be determined by those around him, not by him, he is a true marionette to capitalists around him.