His Kampf

If It Walks Like A Duck, And It Talks Like A Nazi…

December 22, 2023

“I never read Mein Kampf.”
Donald Trump, December 19, 2023
after talking like Hitler at one of his Bund rallies*

Donald “Dictator For Day One” Trump has never been shy about his love and admiration for every very strong and powerful murderous dictator whose name he has come to know. Like Kim Jong Un, with whom Trump exchanged love letters. Like Putin, Orban, Bolsonaro, Duterte, Xi and Modi to name a few. And of course, the classics like Hitler and Mussolini. Trump and his Red Hat (i.e., Brown Shirt) cultists are all frighteningly fond of these very fine people and all manner of white supremacists, Christian nationalists, neo-Nazis, anti-Semites and insurrectionists. Trump has also waxed pathetic about such heroes as Al Capone and Hannibal Lecter, who Donald apparently believed was a real person.

Forty-two percent of recently polled, likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers said that Trump's recent remarks about immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country” makes them more likely to support him, according to a new poll by the Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom. Unsurprisingly, Sen. Tommy “Minus-sign In Front Of His IQ” Tuberville (R-Duh) said of Trump’s Hitleresque comment, “I’m mad he wasn’t tougher than that.”

While Trump continues to spout Nazi phraseology – calling immigrants “vermin” and mewling about “poisoning the blood of our country” cited above – every time he waggles his dentures, pundits find it necessary to declare that “Donald Trump did not read Mein Kampf.” As if that had some bearing on how and why Trump manages to use similar or identical language as the murderous dictator’s murderous dictator, among other fascist fuckwads of days gone by, but apparently not bye.

Der Furor

While I will not argue the point that Donny Dipshit did not read Mein Kampf any more than he has read the Bible, the Constitution or any other book-like object. Hell, he didn’t even write the book he “wrote” – The Art of The Deal; the actual author of that selection – Tony Schwartz – once said, “I don’t know if Donald read every word in the book, but I know I wrote every word in the book.” Schwartz also said that as the book put Donald on the map, he regrets ever having been a part of it and has donated every penny to charities that are anathema to Trump – which would be any charity that actually was a charity, unlike the Trump family “charity” which only gave money to the Trump family until it was dismantled by the courts, and the Trumps were banned from ever creating another charity.

Herr Drumpf and friends

Anyway, let us stipulate that no, Trump in fact did not read Hitler’s works, even though his ex-wife and current golf course ornament Ivana (an immigrant, as was Trump’s mother and is his current wife, what’s-her-name) reported (and Trump later admitted) that he kept a copy of My New Order – a collection of Hitler’s speeches published after his death, on his nightstand. The fact that Trump did not personally read Hitler’s version of Mein Art of The Deal does not preclude the likelihood, nay the guarantee, that everyone around Trump, particularly the likes of the ghoulish Stephen Miller and the orcish Steve Bannon, has read if not memorized Mein Kampf, and has been spoon-feeding its ideas and terminology to the mentally incapacitated kumquat conman for years.

If It Walks Like A Duck, And It Talks Like A Nazi…

Do the math.

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*To quote the late, great Molly Ivins in response to Pat Buchanan’s 1992 RNC speech, “It probably sounded better in the original German.”

I. Mangrey. You?

Postscript

Fortunately, Dark Brandon is starting to get real, calling out Trump’s Hitler talk. Biden had this to say when asked if Trump is an insurrectionist

“It’s self-evident. You saw it all. Now whether the 14th Amendment applies, I’ll let the court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection. No question about it. None. Zero.

Biden has also said (via Twit/X)

“Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America's standing in the world. But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy.”

Please sir, can I have some more?