Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric.
The former president returned to the campaign trail in Waterloo, Iowa, on Tuesday evening where he doubled down on his earlier inflammatory remarks.
“It’s crazy, what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They are destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They are destroying our country,” he said.
“They don’t like it when I said that,” he added, before denying browsing Hitler’s book.
“And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’. In a much different way,” he said.
Because it was actually a book of Hitler’s speeches that he loved to read.
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
Additionally, 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-generalsThen 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.
I am more shocked by the fact that that motherfucker reads books at all.
The fact that he reads so little yet keeps this book close to his bed is telling.
I was talking to my dad once and he practically quoted something Michael Savage had said like 2 weeks before (it had come up on a polisci class, I don’t listen to that drivel) and when I told him as much, he said he doesn’t listen to him. Which I believe.
My point is, trump has definitely never read Mein Kampf, the man can’t read at all. But I’m confident that Mein Kampf has been parroted to him countless times.
I don’t think dude read anything in his life lol
Maybe Art of the Deal, but only because somebody else wrote it.
Based
He doesn’t read. The question we should be asking ourselves is who is telling him to say it, and what is their true agenda?
Trump is a bad person and so is everyone who supports him.
If you ever wondered what you would do if you found yourself in Germany in the 1930s, now you know.
I very much believe he hasn’t read it. In fact I’d be surprised if anyone in his circle of cronies has read it. It’s so badly written.
It’s a stream of consciousness completely devoid of structure. Sentences drag out for five lines and paragraphs go on for more than a page. There is often a change of subject along the way, forcing you to go back and re-read the garbage you couldn’t hold onto the first time around.
It took me four weeks to get halfway through and I’m quite an avid reader.
Came here to say exactly this. He’s never read that book and he doesn’t truly grasp the reason the book was written or the history behind it. He has no clue as to the context.
And it’s an awful book, like you said. Not just for what it advocates but it’s just so badly written. It’s fucking awful. You made it further than I did.
I don’t think Trump reads many books overall. He probably just heard the quote somewhere and didn’t bother to check it before using it as his own. I’m writing this off as an unsurprising symptom of his lack of intelligence.
Trump, rather famously, can only be confirmed to have owned one book, and it is Mein Kampf.
That said, I can indeed still believe he didn’t finish it, even if he remembers a couple quotes.
he probably hasn’t tried bc he thinks it’s in German
Honestly, for me, it is more bothersome and terrifying if he is coming to this rhetoric through a convergent mentality as opposed to parroting a past fascist dictator.
On the one hand, Mein Kampf is not a comic book, so it might be a bit above Trumps reading capabilities. On the other hand, he has more than enough minions happy enough to read it to him, and explain all the three-syllables-or-more words to him in a pacient manner. I wonder how many Leni Riefenstahl movies he has watched, though, dreaming to be the star…
The guy can’t even hold a Bible up the right way. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he doesn’t read any book above a third grade level, and even then only if it features tons of ego-stroking, comically flattering images of himself.
But no comment on whether his dad read it to him when he was a kid
All snuggled under the covers with just his orange forehead peeking out over his eyes so he could see the pictures, as he drifted off to sleep each night. Yeah, I could see that.
As if Fred Trump would have ever done such a thing.
I believe him. I also think he binges those history channel shows about Hitler.
I’d wager that’s where he got the sentence from, or something similar, because he’s never read mein kampf. It’s not an easy book to read, and he certainly isn’t a reader by any means.
That said, someone could be spoonfeeding these little nuggets to the dumbass.
Trump, I don’t think anyone is accusing you of having read a book
Listening to the audiobook technically doesn’t count as reading
Narrated by Stephen Miller, and with live readings too!
Why would he? He probably gets his sick reference game from Miller and the rest of the gang
