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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is one thing about Trump that we should never let be forgotten because
it defines him in a way that is perhaps simpler and more clear-cut than any other.
Trump has openly and repeatedly expressed admiration and respect for and---some would say---envy of the likes of Putin, Duterte, Mohammed Bin Salman and Kim Jong Il. He has complimented them for their "strong leadership" and claimed them as friends.
In language even Trump can understand, these men are four of the most despicable murdering monsters on the face of the earth today. That is not an opinion; it is a widely known fact. That Trump feels compelled to fawn over them is all the proof anyone should need that Trump is cut from the same cloth. That he has not yet become a dictator like them is due to his cowardice, not his morality.
He needs to be stepped on.
Walleye
(31,108 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,822 posts)according to his first wife, Ivana, he kept a copy of My New Order A Collection of Speeches by Adolf Hitler" on his nightstand for frequent reading.
He denied this at the time of the divorce but, from his modus operandi, I'd say it's spot on. He uses Hitler's techniques like a master even with approx. half the IQ Hitler had.
Edwcraig
(293 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)He's made his nature pretty clear this whole time.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Skittles
(153,243 posts)do we really have any doubt Trump would have his critics jailed / executed if he could? He is SICK.
DENVERPOPS
(8,869 posts)whenever anyone "disappears" or "falls out a window" in Russia after criticizing Putin.......especially journalists......
He can hardly wait for Nov 4th, when he becomes the "Tyrant of America".......He worships Putin, the head of the Saudi's, and his hero over in North Korea.......
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Brazil's Bolsonaro and Turkey's Erdogan.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,653 posts)Like a wanna be mobster who sucks up to the big boss.
Wounded Bear
(58,757 posts)I remember that about them too.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)you're unwilling to risk infecting them by visiting. And because he is a man who has never really experienced love and loyalty, he enjoys causing this suffering
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)safeinOhio
(32,738 posts)if he would like to the same rights trumps favorite countries enjoy.
MissMillie
(38,593 posts)opt to not have one.
speaknow
(321 posts)Trumps goal is to past all of them murder's as the most,
and he's off to a good start!
Lonestarblue
(10,124 posts)He talks about being strong and strong leaders and feeling strongly about something. I suspect that his notion of strong means the authority to do anyone he wants, legal or otherwise. He isnt as strong as Putin and MBS because he lives in a country that still has a few laws, but I think he would love the power they have to kill journalists who get in their way.
ancianita
(36,184 posts)It's not as much that he fawns over them, per se, as that he admires their complete dominance over their countries, and how they've cowed their people into cynicism and despair.
Theirs are nations of men, which is the nation he wants. He has not yet become a dicktater like them due to our legal system and we Americans not letting him. We are a nation of laws.
Thanks for your posts, Atticus. There's so much not to forget that sometimes the most important of it gets crowded out as his genocidal reality tv drama unfolds.
keithbvadu2
(36,988 posts)Dance Donald, dance!
Capt. America
(2,478 posts)The Wizard
(12,552 posts)Hitler's speeches on his night stand. It relaxed him before retiring for the evening, reinforcing his Nazi tendencies.
mnmoderatedem
(3,733 posts)in the middle of the Oval Office
oh that's right, that has been forgotten?
We have a president who does not know that you are not supposed to do that.
That bears repeating. The president of the United States does not know that you're not supposed to do that.
And it was big news for what, two, three days?
The fact that he did that at all, by itself, should be disqualifying. The fact that we are not even talking about it at all is even worse. Why are we not talking about it? Because give trump ten minutes, and he we do something else so stupid and corrupt that it will make you forget about that last stupid and corrupt thing he did.
We MUST make things like this front and center during the campaign.
It should be easy. Just ask any fence sitting voter that you encounter, would this incident have been so quickly forgotten if Obama had done it?