President Trump Actually Literate, Reads Hitler’s Speeches at Night
As reported by The Hill recently, the president seems to have a strange affinity for reading but only when the content contains Adolf Hitler’s speeches. This is according to a statement from GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, who said Tuesday that the current president keeps a copy of these on his night stand.
Schmidt‘s role in 2008 was to John McCain as his presidential campaign manager and Schmidt has stayed relevant recently publicly attacking the election results in 2016 calling Trump’s win a “fluke”. It would be easy to question his authenticity of this report and label it as more ‘Fake News’. But some digging show cases that not only has Schmidt made mention of this book, but Ivana Trump herself has also brought it up. You just need to look back to 1990 Vanity Fair article titled ‘After the Gold Rush’:
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.
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.
Earlier this year we made mention that Trump seemed to be making plays straight from the Nazi playbook and we at the very least feel vindicated that there was even more to the story. Unfortunately that feeling of accomplishment lasts only briefly as further feelings of anxiety usher in to replace them.
