Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn't Be More Like 'Totally Loyal' Nazis, Report Claims

[babylonsister]

I would never have had the patience to work for such a moron.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-asked-generals-why-they-couldnt-be-more-like-totally-loyal-nazis-report-claims?ref=home

Trump Asked Generals Why They Couldn’t Be More Like ‘Totally Loyal’ Nazis, Report Claims
REICH MINDED
Dan Ladden-Hall
News Correspondent
Published Aug. 08, 2022 8:46AM ET

Former President Donald Trump once asked why American generals weren’t more like Nazis, according to a report. A New Yorker article examining how the Pentagon handled the national security threat “posed by their own Commander-in-Chief” published Monday includes a staggering exchange which allegedly took place between Trump and his White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former U.S. Marine Corps general. “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump allegedly once asked Kelly. When Kelly asked which German generals Trump was referring to, the then-president answered: “The German generals in World War II.” Kelly is said to have pointed out to Trump that Hitler’s generals tried to kill their führer “three times and almost pulled it off,” but Trump was said to disagree. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” Trump allegedly said of Hitler’s generals.

[tanyev]

1. When Trump's GOP yearns for the "good old days", this is what they mean.

[Girard442]

2. Yeah, totally like the German generals.

But, ah, more successful.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[OMGWTF]

45. Ivana Trump testified under oath that Shitler kept a copy of Hitler's speeches in his nightstand.

[ck4829]

4. Boosts the Confederacy, boosts the Nazis... just cut to the chase and boost ISIS too

[Lonestarblue]

16. The religious right is boosting ISIS-like rules for women--no right to make private medical decisions

How long before the white evangelicals decide that girls only need religious education because they are nothing more than vessels for babies and will be staying home to care for all their children?

[czarjak]

47. Nazis consider Klansmen to be amateurs. They're not Q-WHITE enough.

[malaise]

5. The slobfather makes sick fucks

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look tame. It’s his sense of self importance that frightens me.
That belief that he looks like Rambo is telling although it is laughable.

[BadgerMom]

31. While enjoying the Dark Brandon memes, that image of TFG as Rambo haunts me.

I don’t want to be compared to those jerks at all.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

49. Yep. Worse yet, though, is that millions of 'mercans

see him in that same delusional, cultish way. One self-important, self aggrandizing fascist is concerning, maybe pitiful. It's the rabid acolytes who make him especially dangerous & frightening.

[malaise]

50. They are sicker

😀

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. Thank whatever stars that we had honorable military leaders at the JCoS

to keep the Mango Menace in check, not some of his toadies, who would have gladly cleared Lafeyette Square by shooting the BLM protesters, as the Mango Menace wanted to do.

I've said all along that the JCoS, the line officers and the NCO's would refuse to obey any illegal orders, and it seems I was right all along.

Thank you General Milley and all the others, civilian and military, who worked to prevent the Mango Menace from starting a civil or foreign war.

[Raven123]

7. Would like to know the sources for this article. Very detailed

[babylonsister]

19. From the bottom of NYer article...

This is drawn from “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.”

The book is being released in September, written by the same authors Glasser and Baker, who happen to be married. Makes it easier to have a business meeting, no doubt!


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646871/the-divider-by-peter-baker-and-susan-glasser/

[Raven123]

21. Will have to check it out

I would really like to know if General Kelly has spoken to anyone. The last I heard, he was quiet, but that was some time ago.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Taking a Sharpie to history again

Sharpie needs to develop a Retro-Marker

[Farmer-Rick]

9. Wow, the New Yorker article has even worse details

It seems Trump thought he was king of America and could do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, and to whomever he wanted. He saw himself as a very successful Hitler.

We had 4 years of a dictator trying to be a dictator. No wonder America is broken. This is what the filthy rich want for America.....and they almost had it all. The next time they will dismantle all of our Democracy on day 1.

[orthoclad]

48. Yeah, well, that's how capitalism works.

The boss is the boss. He was the CEO of the USA.

He was a businessman (even if he was a poor one). He wanted to run the country like the Trump Org. Meaning grift, exploitation, abuse, greed, and loyalty to The Boss.

Don't forget that fascism is the combination of corporate and State power.

[fightforfreedom]

10. Just like his father who was also a fan of Hitler.

It is so creepy how Trump expects everyone around him to do everything he asks without question. When they don't he throws a fit like a young child and then removes them. He then searches for anybody who will do what he wants to fill that position. It doesn't matter if they are qualified or not. He wants everyone to kneel before ZOD.

[oldsoftie]

11. Even when Kelley points out ACTUAL history, trump denies its true.

Dumbest man to ever hold the office.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Dubya thanks God every day for Trump taking that title.

Dubya thanks God every day for Trump taking that title.

[YoshidaYui]

12. STEVEN MILLER sure was as close to a Nazi as this party had

all of them are Assholes to this day,

[Rebl2]

15. Curious why

1/6 committee hasn’t investigated S. Miller. Do they not have anything on him?

[YoshidaYui]

35. HE seems like the type who would talk only if the

conversation was private, bet he's making a plea deal with the Justice Department./

[IronLionZion]

13. He should try bunker suicide

Putin too

[BlueIdaho]

14. US Generals refused to blindly follow America's Hitler

Because they remember what happened at the Nuremberg trials.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

17. That has absolutely nothing to do with it,

they refused to follow him because they took the OoE, just like every other military member, who swore to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic, not pledge blind allegiance to a wanna be Hitler.

We take that Oath very seriously, it had nothing to do with the Nuremburg Trials.

[sarge43]

23. Thank you.

Sempre Fi.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

25. For me, that was quite insulting to the Military.

Semper Fi.

[mopinko]

39. well, a lot of people violated their oaths under this tyrant, so...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

41. So what?

The JCoS certainly didn't, the Commanders certainly didn't, the line Officers certainly didn't, the NCO's certainly didn't and the overwhelming majority of active and reserve members certainly didn't.

I find it offensive that the person I originally responded to would think that the thought of the Nuremburg Trials was the reason the Military didn't follow the Mango Menace over a cliff.

[denbot]

46. +1

Semper Fortis...

[Baked Potato]

32. Far from it. They love their country. Nt

[EnergizedLib]

18. How scary

Not only did TFG (once again) display the anti-intellectualism so many embrace by being uniformed on history (you know, something a real president would understand), he also wanted things for Hitler to be like for him during the time he occupied our White House.

And this is what so many millions want back?

[Orange Buffoon]

22. NOW he tells us.

A little late for Kelly to report that conversation.

[Snackshack]

24. Every year on 20 July

Germany recognizes the bravery and remembers the action of a group of military men like Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, Major General Henning von Tresckow and many others who tried (belatedly) to assassinate Hitler.

So… No, they were not all “totally loyal”.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. JHFC

He's a delusion sick fucker.

Mrs. von Stauffenberg is one of by best memories as an officer's little brat living in Germany in the late 1970's.

She had the tattoo as a result of her husband's attempt to kill Hitler.

I'm sticking to facts - not Trump magical thinking.

[Botany]

27. That would be General Rommel on the left ... he was in on trying to kill Hitler

[Snackshack]

37. From what I have read.

He was aware of it and didn’t say anything and that was the extent of his involvement and the reason he got that ride in the car.

[djacq]

28. So glad I retired from the Air Force in 2011.

Shamed that Kelly kept this to himself.

If he opened his mouth sooner, can you imagine the resignations and early retirements of our men and women in uniform?

These so-called former loyalists of Trump were less loyal to the country.

[herding cats]

29. The New Yorker article is worth the read.

It showcases how Milley and Pompeo are desperately doing CYA to distance themselves from J6. Which bodes ill for anyone they know were involved, like Christopher Miller, who Milly especially seems to dislike.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals

[Shrike47]

30. Very interesting article, and frightening. Trump is scary.

[babylonsister]

34. He's so GD stoopid it's scary, yet

due to him being in the wh, they felt obligated to do his bidding. Very frustrating that he was able to put this country through his delusions of grandeur. He's so toxic, was and still is.

[KS Toronado]

33. More than likely Kelly and whoever else was in the room

when this conversation took place told others via word-of-mouth. Believe there's a lot of elected Rs
who knew how bat shit crazy rumpie was but choose to keep quiet and support him for no other
reason than he had an R behind his name.

[MissMillie]

36. Long read, but totally worth it.

Thank you for sharing

[geardaddy]

38. So, he likes to admire losers.

Funny how all of the people he tries to emulate lost bigly

[Mr. Sparkle]

40. All those who called him Twitler should feel vindicated today

I know i do!

[Cha]

42. Oh yeah.. like FuckFace knows

fucking HISTORY.

Focus!
Please Fight to Save Our Democracy💙 in 2022 & 2024!

[LudwigPastorius]

43. Trump reportedly told Kelly he didn't want any injured veterans to be part of an Independence Day...

parade he was planning.

“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” Trump said. “This doesn’t look good for me.” He explained with distaste that at the Bastille Day parade there had been several formations of injured veterans, including wheelchair-bound soldiers who had lost limbs in battle.

Kelly could not believe what he was hearing. “Those are the heroes,” he told Trump. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are—and they are buried over in Arlington.” Kelly did not mention that his own son Robert, a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan, was among the dead interred there.

“I don’t want them,” Trump repeated. “It doesn’t look good for me.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/08/trump-book-hitler-milley-kelly/

[Blue Owl]

44. Really highlights just how deplorable this miserable fuck truly is