This week, I asked John Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.’ I explained to him that Rommel had to commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler.” Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.
Trump: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 23, 2024 1:08 PM |
Oh look. Another Trump thread.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 22, 2024 9:29 PM |
yeah yeah yeah. This story is about 2016-2020, however, isn't it?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 22, 2024 9:31 PM |
Here’s another gem in that article from Dump. This might vie for the worst.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 22, 2024 9:33 PM |
^^When an aide responded “yes” with the bill’s total, Trump allegedly unraveled. “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican,” he said, according to people in the meeting who spoke to the Atlantic.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 22, 2024 9:42 PM |
Mexicans and Jews will still vote for him. Sad.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 22, 2024 9:45 PM |
If he becomes president invest in popcorn stock, sales will go through the roof worldwide. What a show.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 22, 2024 9:47 PM |
Don’t speak for me R5.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 22, 2024 9:51 PM |
[Quote] yeah yeah yeah. This story is about 2016-2020, however, isn't it?
Oh I’m sure he’s completely reformed now though.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 22, 2024 9:52 PM |
Are you joking, stupid or a troll R2?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 22, 2024 9:57 PM |
Okay but to be fair, hardly any American knows who Bismarck was. Of course, he's talking bullshit - it's Trump. There is no news there.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 22, 2024 10:00 PM |
The president of the United States is not supposed to be just "any American."
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 22, 2024 10:07 PM |
Is he under the vague impression that Hitler's generals were wildly successful strategists who were never pushed out of the territory they occupied in Russia, North Africa, France, and Italy and maintained the strictest loyalty to Der Führer?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 22, 2024 10:12 PM |
R9 why is my comment trolling? We know Trump is Hitler-worshipping human garbage. Jeffrey Goldberg reports almost entirely on events in Trump's administration which ended almost 4 years ago. The article title is deeply misleading.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 22, 2024 10:14 PM |
You just answered your own question, r13.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 22, 2024 10:22 PM |
oh, the trumpologists have entered the room..
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 22, 2024 10:37 PM |
Why does he think it costs less to bury "a Mexican" than — oh, I don't know, just spitballing here — a white person?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 22, 2024 10:50 PM |
I read it as, Trump: “I need the kind of genitals that Hitler had.”
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 22, 2024 10:58 PM |
So he wants to lose a ball, R17?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 22, 2024 11:03 PM |
r13 is Swiss. He can butt out.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 22, 2024 11:09 PM |
Hitler had generals who tried to kill him. There was a bomb put in a briefcase but it failed to do the deed.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 22, 2024 11:36 PM |
By remaining silent on donald's hostility for our military, John Kelly is giving donald carte blanche to piss on1st Lieutenant Robert Michael Kelly's grave and on those of the countless soldiers who died serving our country.
You swore an oath to defend The Constitution, not to defend a president.
"Thank you for your service" has never rung so hollow.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 22, 2024 11:45 PM |
Indeed r21. To not speak out is an abomination. At least he’s doing it via other people, but sometimes I think that’s worse. Have the guts to say it directly to America. But he won’t.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 22, 2024 11:59 PM |
R20: and many of the perpetrators were rounded up and hung by piano wire. It is said Hitler had many of the executions filmed so he can view them and savor every moment of their agony.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 23, 2024 12:00 AM |
That sounds Trumpian, r23.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 23, 2024 12:02 AM |
Hitler was a small, weak, sadistic man surrounded by drugged up enablers who lied to his face, grifted, and gleefully killed at will.
There are many overlaps.
The parallels between his regime and Trump's can only go so far though...unless he's reelected into the dictatorship he's slavishly coveting.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 23, 2024 12:16 AM |
Hitler actually had some great generals, but when they contradicted his whims, he iced them out.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 23, 2024 12:58 AM |
Erich von Manstein, a polish aristocrat, was one. He was also a convicted war criminal who tried to whitewash the Wehrmacht of the worst Nazi war crimes.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 23, 2024 2:01 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 23, 2024 2:03 AM |
Agree with that comment from Twitter at R28.
MAGAts are begging for Trump to shit in their mouths and take what he's already unloaded in his diaper and smear it all over America.
It's the reality show they're dying to watch and force the rest of us to be a part of.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 23, 2024 2:10 AM |
[quote]Trump: “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.”
He's already got them in case no-one had noticed. All those nasty, shady people lurking around in the background behind Trump are ready to fire up cruelty and the ovens.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 23, 2024 2:14 AM |
Kelly also confirmed the "suckers and losers" comment
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 23, 2024 3:30 AM |
His trash worshipers LOVE shit like this.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 23, 2024 3:35 AM |
There goes MAGAt's plausible deniability, regarding whether he said that stuff about our Armed Forces or not.
I guess they'll be sending Kelly and his family death threats now and move the goalposts.
"Well SOME OF THEM are "suckers & losers", like John McCain, just like my president Trump says! And the black ones. And the brown ones. And the homos, too. So, where's the lie? President Trump was right, they are suckers and losers!" -- Dee Plorable
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 23, 2024 3:37 AM |
He's right! Hitler wasn't that bad!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 23, 2024 4:00 AM |
[quote]There goes MAGAt's plausible deniability, regarding whether he said that stuff about our Armed Forces or not.
"We don't know the context of the remarks," said Trump lickspittle David Urban on CNN last night, as if there were some context in which praising Hitler's generals and disparaging an American soldier would be perfectly fine.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 23, 2024 11:03 AM |
“He tells it like it is!”
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 23, 2024 11:35 AM |
Sot on R33. His fans are thrilled when they hear this kind of stuff. Most of them agree with him. I just can't believe this hateful bigoted cunt is a candidate for president again. It's very nerve-wracking.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 23, 2024 11:37 AM |
*Spot on R33.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 23, 2024 11:37 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 23, 2024 11:39 AM |
Scott Jennings is so revolting he makes me miss hearing dumbass Rick Santorum's "commentary".
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 23, 2024 12:28 PM |
HITLER'S GENERALS LOST!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 23, 2024 12:30 PM |
Hitler's generals tried on several occasions to assassinate him, so go for it, Donald.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 23, 2024 12:38 PM |
We could use a von Motlke.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 23, 2024 12:53 PM |