Mr Trump made the gaffe about the threat of World War II — which finished in 1945 — during the part of his address in which he was questioning the mental acuity of 80-year-old Mr Biden.

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    Maybe he got confused by all the swastikas around these days. It sure feels like the rise of the third Reich down in Florida

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      Trump wanted US military generals to emulate generals of the third Reich and treat him like he was Hitler:

      It turned out that the generals had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty. The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
      “Which generals?” Kelly asked.
      “The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
      “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
      But, of course, Trump did not know that. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. In his version of history, the generals of the Third Reich had been completely subservient to Hitler; this was the model he wanted for his military. Kelly told Trump that there were no such American generals, but the President was determined to test the proposition.
      https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals

      Trump, not a man known for his literacy, kept a book of Hitler’s speeches by his bed and would read it sometimes:

      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, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
      https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

      Then there’s this:

      Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

      Trump seems to aspire to be Hitler-like, and he even tried to take supreme dictatorial power through populism, lies and propaganda like Hitler did.

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        And now we know why Tuberville is holding up military appointments. He’s waiting for Trump to come back and nominate crazies that will show loyalty to the president over the welfare of the country.

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        "You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.

        That is precisely the kind of officer America needed under Turnip Dump.

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        “Which generals?” Kelly asked.
        “The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
        “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.

        He mean he wanted generals like Nazis.

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    For those who didn’t read the article, Trump claims Biden is too old and senile to be trusted to run the country then proceeds to confuse WW2 and WW3, then confused Biden and Obama and then immediately after confused Hilary and Obama (ie, the headline slightly understates it if anything.)

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      Here’s the citation:

      “The radical left thugs have weaponised law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent … leading by a lot … including Obama,” he said before catching the error and trying to get back on track but appearing to forget that it was Hillary Clinton he beat in the 2016 presidential election.

      “I’ll tell you what … you take a look at Obama and you look at some of the things that he’s done, this is the same thing, the country was very divided and we did with Obama, we won an election they said that couldn’t be won.”

      It made no sense to me, I thought I was used to how this guy speaks. I listened to the video. It’s the same thing. makes no sense.

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    To be fair, last time this many Nazis were openly supporting a fascist lunatic we did get WWII.

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    That boy ain’t right…

    Yet the media will not be running article after article on Trump’s “fitness” to be president.

    Because they know the answer is “He never was, he never will be.”

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      Republicans will protect him from any referendums regarding his fitness to be president. They don’t care about his crimes, gaffes, lapses in logic, childish outbursts, anti-intellectualism, open racism, hate, stochastic terrorism, boorishness, fascist tendencies, Russian asset-like behaviors, or antidemocratic coups. They sure as shit won’t care about this.

      Trump himself has threatened to start WWIII with nuclear missiles over twitter on more than one occasion, and often floated assassinations of high-ranking members of nuclear states like Iran.

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      I mean he’s always been such an eloquent and thoughtful speaker, you know?

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    Do we actually need more proof that Trump has a brain of cheese? Even before being old he was fucking deranged. It’s a joke that this is even a topic of discussion at this point.

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    Republicans once again proving that every accusation they make against others is just a confession

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    let’s be real: insanity is the only defense left on the table. he’s always been incoherent, so his lawyers probably told him to lean into it.