Typical Trump: if the reporting says he said something repulsive he then repeats it 9 thousand times to demonstrate that he can be repulsive if he wants to so NYAH.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday night denied he was inspired by Hitler while repeating his comments that immigrants were “destroying the blood of our country” — despite coming under intense fire for similar remarks over the weekend.
Not “despite”; because of.
“They’re destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing — they’re destroying our country,” Trump said Tuesday at an event in Waterloo, Iowa, echoing comments he made at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday in which he said immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country.”
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Trump brushed off the Hitler comparison, claiming that Hitler’s rhetoric was said “in a much different way.”
Wrong.
“I never read ‘Mein Kampf’” he told the audience in Iowa. “They said Hitler said that — in a much different way. No, they’re coming from all over the world — people all over the world. We have no idea — they could be healthy, they could be very unhealthy, they could bring in disease that’s going to catch on in our country. But they do bring in crime. … They’re destroying the blood of the country, they’re destroying the fabric of our country, and we’re going to have to get them out.”
Of course he never read Mein Kampf; he’s never read anything. He doesn’t read. He watches Fox News.
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Hitler said it “in a much different way”.
Well, yes. He said it in German.
I don’t think that’s quite fair. I read somewhere that there was a fire in his library at Mar-A-Lago. It reportedly burned all his books; all three of ’em, Including one that he hadn’t even finished colouring in..!!!
I think he has been watching Dr. Strangelove.
It’s clear that Trump is clueless about what the “blood” or “fabric” of the country consists of. I’m sure who they *actually* are have been the target of his contempt as well (assuming he means people and not real estate). It’s no accident that he repeats “country” over and over. I remember Bush Jr. doing the same thing.
To be fair, I’ve never read Mein Kampf, either. It was in our high school library, along with a biography of Nixon. I didn’t read that, either. But, Trump seems to wallow in the same grievances that both men shared, and Nixon also held the view that executive privilege means never having to say you’re sorry (RIP, Ryan O’Neal.) Nor to be held accountable. If the president does it, it’s legal.
One does not have to have read Hitler’s list of grievances to know what “blood and soil” refer to, it’s a common enough chant among even American Nazis. Either he is ignorant, or feigning ignorance.
Ignorant FTW, but also stupid.
To be fair, it’s possible that Trump missed the connection to the whole “Jews have impure blood and mingling with them defiles the Master Race” historic thing because he’s just that stupid. Really. At some point in his career he may have encountered phrases like “Liberty is the Life Blood of Our Country” or “Respect for American traditions is in our blood” and received applause when he peppered them into his speeches. A heuristic is born: say something about blood. It goes over well.
I can at least imagine him mangling together old fashioned patriotic boilerplate and the problems of immigration due to cluelessness, ignorance, and laziness. Doing so requires an ability to suspend disbelief, a skill commensurate with how often one’s expectations for what constitutes rock bottom need revision.
But however clueless, ignorant and lazy he may be, once someone suggests that the result is not a good look, and puts him in Nazi territory, we run smack dab into
Well, yes – he’s very stupid. Which makes it seem to me to be very unlikely that he writes the entirety (or much at all) of his speeches. It’s much more likely, to me, that someone else writes the speeches, repeats key phrases in his ear, knowing his penchant for repeating stuff which anyone suggests to him will give him a cheer at his interminable narcissistic-supply gigs (or ‘rallies’. Like Hitler held) so that those sound-bites, at least, will survive his inevitable mangling of the original speech as written.
I doubt Trump has enough functioning brain cells to understand what he’s saying.
But I bet his handlers know.
Stephen Miller writes the speeches, I suspect, tigger, or at least has a hand in them.
He doesn’t have handlers, prompt engineers maybe…
Babysitters. No one likes to leave a toddler to roam around by themselves.