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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He may have not read it, but someone on his campaign team could have.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The one book somebody has seen him read is an anthology of Hitler's speeches:

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, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow! I didn't know he could read.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

He could back in 1990. It's far from clear that he still can.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Stephen Miller?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

He is a Nazi Sympathizer. He looks at Nazis with torches and sees good people.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I trust that he didn't read it. He probably just has his finger on the pulse of what other people say and regurgitates it because he finds it gets him likes when he says it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

The one book somebody actually saw Trump reading was an anthology of Hitler's speeches, back around 1990:

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, reveal 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.”)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

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, reveal 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.”)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I read Mein Kampf, and he sounds a lot like he's quoting bits of it from memory.

Has the same half-hinged rant that tries to sound methodical.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

He lied an average of 21 times a day, every single day, while in office. Odds are pretty good that if he's speaking, he's lying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He’s been quoting Mein Kampf since 2015, at least.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s bold thinking this guy reads books

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Trump seems to have actually picked up a copy of Hitler's speeches:

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like audio versions of books too.

I grew up reading. Audio makes it easy to keep consuming stories without the mental gymnastics of written word interpretation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His late ex-wife described how Trump would read an anthology of Hitler's speeches before bed:

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s the only way to have those sweet sweet Hitler dreams at night

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Just play Sex with Hitler 2 like a normal person gosh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure, he never really had read a book

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago

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