psst, spread it around: . the donald is a hitler fan

[cali]

Donald Trump: The comeback huckster


Back in 1990, Ivana Trump told her divorce 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.” This information, which comes from a startling 1990 Vanity Fair profile of Trump, certainly does not prove that he is anti-Semitic (a daughter recently converted to Judaism) and is cited here just because, as with so much about Trump, it makes no sense at all. It is just another grenade that comes rolling out of the profile — yet another detail about Trump that is just plain weird, sordid, compellingly interesting and, upon reflection, terrifying. Nothing stops the man.

The political community is now ever so reluctantly taking Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. He has been hiring aides, conferring with recognized Republican political consultants and pollsters. He has set out to woo the evangelical Christian base that plays an inordinate role in the Iowa Republican caucuses, and he has changed his position on abortion. He is no longer pro-choice. This sometimes happens after the soul is searched and the polls are consulted.

For whatever reason, Trump has risen to the top of potential Republican presidential favorites. Maybe this is on account of name recognition, maybe because the public likes his television manner (kind of a latter-day Mussolini) or maybe because people think the country needs a no-nonsense businessman to do the right thing. Trump knows how to fire people. He also knows how to get into debt.

In 1990, Trump was mired in debt. Some of his important real estate ventures were under water and his marriage was coming apart. He was carrying on a very public extramarital affair with Marla Maples, whom he later married and still later divorced. The Vanity Fair article, punctiliously reported over a period of months by Marie Brenner, captured Trump in all his flamboyant egocentrism. He refers to himself often in the third person (”Trump says . . . Trump believes”). He is bombastic, sometimes cruel, utterly domineering and not in the least bit fastidious about the truth. He exaggerates his exaggerations, which is an occupational failing in the real estate business, where every building is 100 percent rented and all basements are dry.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-the-comeback-huckster/2011/04/18/AFtvej0D_story.html?hpid=z4

[bullwinkle428]

1. Trump is America's version of Silvio Berlusconi. Kind of scary,

when you consider that Italy is a pretty sophisticated country.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. "Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory,” his lawyer told Brenner.

“If you say something over and over again, people will believe you.” Brenner refused to tell Trump (or us) the name of the lawyer, but she is a reporter of impeccable credentials and she did not write anything not already known. The shocker would be a statement that Trump always tells the truth.


You know where Donald picked up that tactic? From his mentor, attorney and all-around shit, Roy Cohn.

[wtmusic]

3. So was JFK, sort of.

"After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg), you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambitions for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."

[catbyte]

4. I refuse to believe the American people will elect someone

with such a tragic comb-over and liver lips.

Am I giving folks too much credit?!? :)

Diane
Anishinabe in MI