“Why can’t you be like the German generals”
So he didn’t even say Nazi generals? Why is everyone reporting that he did?
Plenty of German Generals were not loyal to Hitler.
They were planning to overthrow him in 1938, before the Munich Agreement.
If Trump meant “Why can’t they be like old Nazi generals?” in the sense of disgraced and punished for their crimes...
Might be a sensible idea.
Didn’t the sainted John Kennedy say pretty much the same thing - that any president coming into office should hold advice from military leaders as basically worthless?