Trump “learned”? From “studying”?
Nah, dude is just an opportunistic dumb fuck
It’s wild to see his ex-wife’s claim, but I just don’t believe Trump was smart enough to study a book by Hitler and understand it. Hitler, as cruel and insane as he was, had a brain.
You’re thinking of Trump now, as a deranged old man. It’s entirely possible he studied it back before he was a rambling incoherent loon. A lifetime of hamburders, drugs and privilege must really fuck a brain up.
Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything.
He was absolutely a dumbass this whole time.
I highly recommend actually reading “Mein Kampf”. After the opening paragraph we should talk again about Hitlers intelligence.
That man was an absolute buffoon, but he was highly intelligent in a social sense of the word. Not entirely unlike Trump.
You make a good point.
Trump is one of the dumbest men on the planet. However, he has clearly stumbled onto a disturbing social skill…Just like Hitler (who was also known to be an idiot).
I actually read the full article on this one. There are a lot of good points and similarities. Did he study Hitler’s speeches? I doubt Mr. “Nuke the storm” or “inject bleach” is capable of studying. I think it’s much more likely that he either blindly stumbled into the same success or learned a few tidbits from what he heard.
I differentiate ‘learn’ and ‘study’, the same way I might pick up a few words words from vacation abroad, vs cracking open a text book. “Fake news” probably comes up in a Hitler speech as much as bano and cerveza do on a vacation in Mexico.
I think a dangerous trap we fall into is assuming that Trump is the mastermind at all. Hitler didn’t rise to his position without a lot of things falling into place by a lot of people whose best interest it was in that he ascend. Stopping Trump sets this process back, but the whole organization of politicans, journalists, and business leaders who support him need to be held accountable as well.
The list regurgitates the same points over and over.
Old, deranged trump is a complete lunatic. Young, narcissistic trump was dumb as a rock, but he cared a lot, a whole lot about his image. He was popular and he’s always been the useful idiot actual powerful and smart people like to hide behind.
To his credit, it would be way too wild of a coincidence for him to play the fascist playbook so accurately. He’s probably been coached, the new order book annotated by someone who actually read it. I don’t think he studied any of this seriously though. There is no foreshadowing of future event. He just gets stuck and incredibly mad at something blocking his path, and he probably goes “Hmm, what would Hitler have done”, and he gets to use whatever brainpower he has to follow a few simple guidelines and rhetoric.
That’s the thing with the fascist playbook, it’s incredibly dumb. You just ignore everything and get people riled up about the next thing in order. It’s immigrants, the medias, scientifics, every other politicians, elections, the justice system, democracy itself. He’ll be jailed and do the next thing Hitler did, like have a smarter someone publish a “solution” to their “struggle” and it will be spread like gospel. Given the chance he’d then starts a war with a neighboring country. Just follow the steps one by one, even a buffoon like him can get coached on it. Suddenly you’ll hear Canada has to be liberated and it is all you’ll hear about. That’s what his second term and planned for-life presidency would look like.
He’s always struck me more as doing a poor imitation of Mussolini
This article reads like it was written by an AI whos entire dataset is comprised of talking points by the average redditor
Really. Those 20 points do absolutely nothing to indicate he “studied Hitler’s speeches”. It’s basically just saying “Trump was awful. You know who else was awful? Adolf Hitler!”.
Sometimes it’s better to just let evil speak for itself. What a load of crap.
It seems he actually had a copy of My New Order though. But I doubt Trump ever had the discipline to study it much. Bannon yes.
The thing is, it just doesn’t make sense. I think it’s uncontroversial to say Hitler’s skills in oration were a factor in the rise to power of that regime. But Trump? Trump is a horrible orator.
I don’t see similarities at all in terms of oration. Trump meanders through a speech, often switching subjects abruptly, leaving thoughts incomplete, or otherwise being entirely nonsensical.
That in itself is a strategy – I think people lacking formal education especially are susceptible to it and see it as sounding intelligent (“he’s so smart, the thoughts just keep flowing!”), but it is extremely un-Hitlerlike in terms of oration style.
Is it an actual strategy of Trump or does he just naturally meander like that? I kind of lead towards the latter, which means he’s probably gotten lucky by surrounding himself with stupid people for a very long time.
