Posted on 08/24/2015 4:57:33 PM PDT by SJackson
Trump Kept Hitler’s Speeches by his Bed: Says Only Short Jews Can Count His Money, Not Blacks
Trump’s ex-wife says that he used to keep a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bed. That information can go a long way to understand why Donald Trump has refused to address or even acknowledge the problem of racist sentiments within his followers.
From Vanity Fair:
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her 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. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveals his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew. (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
Trump’s fascination with Hitler is just one form of his racist actions. In 1991, John O’Donnell, a former Trump associate, wrote an exposé entitled Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump. During O’Donnell’s tenure as president of the Trump Plaza Hotel, Trump told him that he hates “black guys counting my money!” He added that “the only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” To Trump, “laziness is a trait in blacks.” Several years later, Trump didn’t bother to deny it: “The stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
To read more about Trump’s history of racism, click Staggering History of Trump’s Attacks on African-Americans: including DOJ suing him for Discrimination.
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If you saw that as a put-down of you, only you were the one to classify yourself that way. I addressed my comments to anti-Trump FReepers.
I made no comment regarding you.
Invariably, they would.
Then I'd drop it on them: "Thought so. It's from Mein Kampf." It drove them crazy.
Maybe that's what Trump is up to, if this story is even true.
Any one who is interested in public speaking and the importance of persuasion through public speaking and has not read both the collective speeches of Adolph Hitler as well as the works of Joseph Goebbels is a fool and not likely to succeed in his endeavor.
I also advise reading and watching any of the speeches of Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
Public speaking and persuasion through the spoken word is an art. Hitler was amongst the most persuasive speakers in human history.
Much as I don’t like Trump, I’m not seeing a problem with reading speeches by Hitler, Obama, Stalin or any other dictator. It’s informative to get into the heads of these perverted souls and learn what makes them tick.
Then I'd drop it on them: "Thought so. It's from Mein Kampf." It drove them crazy.
Maybe that's what Trump is up to, if this story is even true.
His speeches on video are spellbinding, more so if you understand German. It’s no wonder he was able to take over a fringe party that the Army sent him to spy on.
Worse, he’s from New York.
See 13, sorry, I forgot I read the Koran in my mea kulpas. Antonio Gramsci too, who was probably more influental than Alinsky. At least a predecessor. I’m going to stop reading anything but the internet.
Misunderstood.
Lol.
But you notice that two liberal icons who “greatly admired” the third Reich and eugenics have had any hint of such airbrushed like Marshal Yezhov... Margaret Sanger and old man and kennedy patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
the spoon of hell
lol
I’ve watched Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation.
So what?
Dunno.
The Donald strikes me more as a “The Bedside MAD” type.
Good point
The consummate populist politician. Right time and circumstances as well.
They just need one of these ridiculous claims to take off with people. But people are not gonna bite because we are beginning to smell FREEDOM from political correctness with Trump. even if we suspect he did something he is accused of we will take his imperfections so that we might gain back the freedom which we have relinquished oh these last few decades. Got that establishment!? We’ve got Trumps back and he’s got ours!
RFK Jr, who apparently is one of the three people who run the website, would be his grandson
Apparently to some people it means you’re a Nazi and a racist. I’ve watched Birth of a Nation too, not in the same league. So far all the nasty stuff mentioned on the thread, which I think people should read and be aware of, comes from the left.
This is Nazi’s accusing somebody else of being a Nazi.
I suppose that book is own their short list of books that need burning?
Who knows what Trump is going to be. I’m experiencing more faith in the converted instead of the entrenched, bribed, spineless perverted GOPe leadership.
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