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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake | The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate

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Donald Trump’s Hitlerian logic is no mistake | The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate

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silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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The former president claims to have never read Mein Kampf. But his use of blood and soil rhetoric is deliberate
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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    He may have not read it, but someone on his campaign team could have.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      The one book somebody has seen him read is an anthology of Hitler’s speeches:

      Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, 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.

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        Wow! I didn’t know he could read.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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          He could back in 1990. It’s far from clear that he still can.

    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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      Stephen Miller?

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    He is a Nazi Sympathizer. He looks at Nazis with torches and sees good people.

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    I trust that he didn’t read it. He probably just has his finger on the pulse of what other people say and regurgitates it because he finds it gets him likes when he says it.

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      The one book somebody actually saw Trump reading was an anthology of Hitler’s speeches, back around 1990:

      Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, 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.

      “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

      Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

      “I don’t remember,” I said.

      “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

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    https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

    Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, 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.

    “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

    Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

    “I don’t remember,” I said.

    “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)

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    I read Mein Kampf, and he sounds a lot like he’s quoting bits of it from memory.

    Has the same half-hinged rant that tries to sound methodical.

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    He lied an average of 21 times a day, every single day, while in office. Odds are pretty good that if he’s speaking, he’s lying.

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    He’s been quoting Mein Kampf since 2015, at least.

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    I like audio versions of books too.

    I grew up reading. Audio makes it easy to keep consuming stories without the mental gymnastics of written word interpretation.

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      His late ex-wife described how Trump would read an anthology of Hitler’s speeches before bed:

      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.

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        It’s the only way to have those sweet sweet Hitler dreams at night

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          Just play Sex with Hitler 2 like a normal person gosh.

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    It’s bold thinking this guy reads books

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      Trump seems to have actually picked up a copy of Hitler’s speeches:

      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

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    I’m pretty sure, he never really had read a book

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