Mr Trump made the gaffe about the threat of World War II — which finished in 1945 — during the part of his address in which he was questioning the mental acuity of 80-year-old Mr Biden.
let’s be real: insanity is the only defense left on the table. he’s always been incoherent, so his lawyers probably told him to lean into it.
Maybe he got confused by all the swastikas around these days. It sure feels like the rise of the third Reich down in Florida
Trump wanted US military generals to emulate generals of the third Reich and treat him like he was Hitler:
It turned out that the generals had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty. The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
But, of course, Trump did not know that. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. In his version of history, the generals of the Third Reich had been completely subservient to Hitler; this was the model he wanted for his military. Kelly told Trump that there were no such American generals, but the President was determined to test the proposition.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generalsTrump, not a man known for his literacy, kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed and would read it sometimes:
Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brennerThen there’s this:
Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.
Trump seems to aspire to be Hitler-like, and he even tried to take supreme dictatorial power through populism, lies and propaganda like Hitler did.
That boy ain’t right…
Yet the media will not be running article after article on Trump’s “fitness” to be president.
Because they know the answer is “He never was, he never will be.”
Republicans will protect him from any referendums regarding his fitness to be president. They don’t care about his crimes, gaffes, lapses in logic, childish outbursts, anti-intellectualism, open racism, hate, stochastic terrorism, boorishness, fascist tendencies, Russian asset-like behaviors, or antidemocratic coups. They sure as shit won’t care about this.
Trump himself has threatened to start WWIII with nuclear missiles over twitter on more than one occasion, and often floated assassinations of high-ranking members of nuclear states like Iran.
Dementia…
World War 2: 2
2 world 2 war
What would happen if trump removed the US from NATO and ordered the US military to help his friend/owner-putler?
The world is left no less stable than it already is, Europe goes back to consuming cheap gas, and the Europeans finally restart their domestic military programs.
So, the US pivoting to backing russia’s genocide against democracies wouldn’t change anything?
Not really, no. The US still has NATO obligations, Ukraine will still be corrupt, and Russia will still have oligarchs leeching all of their economic output.
The FIRST thing trump would do is remove the US from NATO.
Ah yes, because all of NATO Europe (GDP: $23 trillion) and Canada (GDP: $2 trillion) could never match the economic might of Russia (GDP: $1.8 trillion) and needs US support in any protracted conflict.
Who do you think you’re convincing?
I’m not talking about ‘economic’ might. I’m talking about a realignment of allies.
I’m not talking about ‘economic’ might. I’m talking about a realignment of allies. (Just noticed a person cannot edit after accidental deletion)
Would that change anything? Russia is a tiny economy even in the European context. You’re saying Europe couldn’t maintain It’s territorial sovereignty without the US in NATO?
Sleepy Donnie is at it again.
He probably shit his pants again and was wondering if he should smear more on his face for the cameras…
