“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 … Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist,” Marie Brenner wrote .. http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner .
“He learned how to become a charismatic speaker, and people, for whatever reason, became enamoured with him,” Professor Bruce Loebs .. http://www.isu.edu/cmp/Fac_Staff.html , who has taught a class called the Rhetoric of Hitler and Churchill for the past 46 years at Idaho State University, told Business Insider.
“People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval.”
When Brenner asked Trump about how he came to possess Hitler’s speeches, “Trump hesitated” and then said, “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” Brenner reportedly replied.
Trump then recalled, “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.”
Brenner adds that Davis did admit to giving Trump a book about Hitler.
“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,” Davis reportedly said.
After Trump and Brenner changed topics, Trump returned to the subject and reportedly said, “If, I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
In the Vanity Fair article, Ivana Trump tells a friend that her husband’s cousin, John Walter “clicks his heels and says, ‘Heil Hitler,” when he visits Trump’s office.
.. i thought that story had been posted here, maybe in one of F6's, but couldn't find it just now .. no doubt Trump has much of the Hitler machismo style .. and that he uses some of Hitler's 'love me' tricks, e.g. Trump's 'Make America Great Again'
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”