Post by trueblue on Aug 8, 2022 23:37:51 GMT
'Trump Wanted His Military Leaders to Pretend He Was Adolf Hitler'
If Donald Trump’s threats are to be believed, at some point in the not too distant future, he’ll run for president again with the hope of moving back into the White House come January 20, 2025. This would be extremely bad for the country for a lot of reasons, but probably the biggest one is the fact that he’s made it extremely clear that he’ll have no reservations leading like an out-and-out dictator in a second term. We know this thanks to both detailed reports of the plans he’s laying the groundwork for, should he win a second term, which involve firing thousands of civil servants and replacing them with loyalists who’ll do whatever he says, and because he told us as much last month, in a speech in which he said the U.S. should start executing drug dealers after sham trials. Oh, and also: the fact that he reportedly demanded his military leaders act like he was Adolf Hitler and they were German generals during World War II.
That’s right: In an excerpt from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by veteran reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, published on Monday by The New Yorker, we learn that the 45th president wished his generals would emulate top Nazi officials. According to Baker and Glasser, Trump hated that his top generals didn’t just blindly follow whatever ridiculous, dangerous, possibly illegal demands made of them, but rather “had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty.” One day, irate that his generals weren’t treating him with the level of respect he thought he deserved, Trump complained to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Curious, perhaps given the president’s disdain for Berlin and Europe in general, Kelly probed further. “Which generals?” he asked. “The German generals in World War II,” Trump reportedly responded. “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly told him.
That’s right: In an excerpt from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by veteran reporters Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, published on Monday by The New Yorker, we learn that the 45th president wished his generals would emulate top Nazi officials. According to Baker and Glasser, Trump hated that his top generals didn’t just blindly follow whatever ridiculous, dangerous, possibly illegal demands made of them, but rather “had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty.” One day, irate that his generals weren’t treating him with the level of respect he thought he deserved, Trump complained to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Curious, perhaps given the president’s disdain for Berlin and Europe in general, Kelly probed further. “Which generals?” he asked. “The German generals in World War II,” Trump reportedly responded. “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly told him.