Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric.

The former president returned to the campaign trail in Waterloo, Iowa, on Tuesday evening where he doubled down on his earlier inflammatory remarks.

“It’s crazy, what’s going on. They’re ruining our country. And it’s true. They are destroying the blood of our country. That’s what they’re doing. They are destroying our country,” he said.

“They don’t like it when I said that,” he added, before denying browsing Hitler’s book.

“And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, ‘Oh, Hitler said that’. In a much different way,” he said.

  • @zeppo
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    439 months ago

    “They don’t like it when I said that” is one of an entire genre of Trump “they” statements. Goes along with “they like to use that word” and other claims about “they”.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        “(…) we must move forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!” - Bill Clinton, maybe, kinda…

      • TechyDad
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        39 months ago

        Are these big strong people with tears in their eyes?

      • @zeppo
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        29 months ago

        “They don’t like it when we tell them that. That the smartest people support Trump”