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.
It’s easy to believe he’s never read Mein Kampf. It’s easy to believe he’s never read a book at all. He might have read his own book, maybe.
I would believe that he hired someone to read it and then give him the cliff notes and he just kept interrupting the guy when he was trying to explain it to him.
Is there an audiobook version?
I doubt he even wrote his own book, much less be able to read it
Actually it was ghost written.
Lmao, I should have known, because of course it was. Trump is just weapons grade stupid
I think the guy who wrote it did an interview saying he now regretted it.
“They don’t like it when I said that” is one of an entire genre of Trump “they” statements. Goes along with “they like to use that word” and other claims about “they”.
“In America there is no us and them. There is only us.” - Bill Clinton
“(…) we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!” - Bill Clinton, maybe, kinda…
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Are these big strong people with tears in their eyes?
“They don’t like it when we tell them that. That the smartest people support Trump”
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off topic but that’s probably the best line in all 8 movies
Didn’t Tom Felton improvisiert it, because he forgot his lines?
“And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’. In a much different way,” he said.
Note how he never says that what Hitler said or did was bad, but rather that he said what Hitler said in a different way.
I long for the days when something like this would be absolutely, unequivocally disqualifying.
Seriously. We went from “you spelled potato wrong or screamed slightly weird so no presidency for you” to “you’re quoting Hitler? Well, no big deal. It looks like you’re still the frontrunner for your party.”
He is actually correct. Hitler said it in German.
I totally believe that he hasn’t read it, or isn’t capable of reading it. But I bet someone read it to him.
He hasn’t even read The Art of the Deal."
But, in fairness, I wouldn’t either.
People just refuse to get it. Racist speech is animal-level shit which is always the same even across languages and cultures. You don’t need to have read it before or even heard it before to reproduce it. If you find yourself calling someone dirty, calling them rats or rodents or vermin or pigs or whatever your local equivalent, or really just judging anyone based on your preferred stereotypes, you may be doing the thing you say you hate.
You don’t need to read that book to know this stuff. He’s putting his ignorance of on full display. Ignorance of some of the most important AND MOST OBVIOUS and accessible historical periods …
It’s fascism 101. I wish people were more well read with history. The path these neo conservatives are going is going to end in suffering. What happens when your authoritarian leader rids themselves of their undesirables? They turn on you and make damn sure you can’t fight back and rebel just so they can stay in power. It’s always the same story.
>implying Trump has read even one book
Anything longer than 280 characters at a time, and he has to take a McDonalds break.
Hey, even an edgelord moron will attempt a read at mein Kemp or whatever edgy book. Doesn’t mean he understood or read too deeply into it
It’s not a hard book to understand from what I’ve heard. It’s an edgelord screed of a manifesto written from a prison for attempting to overthrow a democratically elected government
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 believe him. I don’t think he’s ever read a book at all. Plenty of morons manage to be racist all by themselves.
I have no trouble believing he didn’t read something. Maybe if there were an illustrated version…
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?
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.
His mother, wife, and ex-few are immigrants. Although, I guess in the case of his mother, she did play a party in destroying the country.
Uh huh.
The natural reaction if that were true would be to take a step back and re-evaluate your rhetoric and why you’re being compared to one of the most evil people in history.
He’s read it cover to cover and loves it. That’s why the parallels are narrowing and becoming extremely clear. And why he’s not phased at the comparison.
