• @[email protected]
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    199 hours ago

    I trust that he didn’t read it. He probably just has his finger on the pulse of what other people say and regurgitates it because he finds it gets him likes when he says it.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The one book somebody actually saw Trump reading was an anthology of Hitler’s speeches, back around 1990:

      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.

      “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

      Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

      “I don’t remember,” I said.

      “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “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.”)

  • @ZILtoid1991
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    He may have not read it, but someone on his campaign team could have.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      The one book somebody has seen him read is an anthology of Hitler’s speeches:

      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.

  • @TurnpikeRangers
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    He lied an average of 21 times a day, every single day, while in office. Odds are pretty good that if he’s speaking, he’s lying.

  • @linearchaos
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    1513 hours ago

    https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

    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.

    “Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.

    Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”

    “I don’t remember,” I said.

    “Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “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.”)

  • @InverseParallax
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    1313 hours ago

    I read Mein Kampf, and he sounds a lot like he’s quoting bits of it from memory.

    Has the same half-hinged rant that tries to sound methodical.

  • FuglyDuck
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    He’s been quoting Mein Kampf since 2015, at least.

  • @[email protected]
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    I like audio versions of books too.

    I grew up reading. Audio makes it easy to keep consuming stories without the mental gymnastics of written word interpretation.