The Leader

Donald J. Trump was a German-American businessman, media personality, and host of The Apprentice who was the 45th president of the United States.  He became the president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it from the Fred Trump Organization to the Trump Organization. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies.  He was registered as a Republican in 1987, then a member of the Independence Party¹ in 1999, a Democrat in 2001, a Republican in 2009, unaffiliated in 2011, and a Republican in 2012.

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. As the leader of the Nazi Party, he became Chancellor in 1933 and then assumed the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on September 01, 1939, was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetuation of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews, and millions of other victims. He was a registered as a member of German Workers' Party (DAP) from 1919-1920 and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, known colloquially as the "Nazi Party") from 1920 - 1945. 

Besides the obvious similarities regarding their hair, anger, and histrionic speeches, there are numerous others:

Note: Though Trump never did serve in combat, he did claim that his love life in the 70s was his own personal Vietnam: 

Note: After being discharged from the Navy, William changed his surname to "Stuart-Houston". 

Note: Mein Kampf did not have a photo of the author on the cover.

Note: Trump only fired his generals, unlike Hitler who executed at least 84. 


"I was convinced that of all the millions on whom the Hitler Myth had fastened itself, the most carried away was Adolf Hitler, himself."

-Howard K. Smith, The Last Train from Berlin

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¹ The Independence Party is a political party in the state of New York, that has previously endorsed Michael Bloomberg for New York Coty mayor in 2001, Ralf Nader for president in 2004, Bloomberg again for mayor in 2005, and Eliot Spizter (D) for N.Y. Governor in 2006.  

² Bavaria was the founding state of the Nazi party, with Munich being its nerve center.

³ Clicking one's heels while addressing The Leader and exclaiming "Heil, Hitler" is just plain wrong. Germans greeted each other by exclaiming "Heil Hitler". If a German was lucky enough to actually meet Hitler he would exclaim "Heil, mein Führer!".

 ⁴ A person who abstains from alcohol might choose tea as his or her alternative beverage, but the word teetotaler has nothing to do with tea. More likely, the "tee" that begins the word teetotal is a reduplication of the letter "t" that begins total, emphasizing that one has pledged total abstinence. In the early 1800s, ''tee-total'' and ''tee-totally'' were used to intensify ''total'' and ''totally'' much the way we now might say, ''I'm tired with a capital T.'' ''I am now … wholly, solely, and teetotally absorbed in Wayne's business,'' wrote the folklorist Parson Weems in an 1807 letter. Teetotal and teetotaler first appeared with their current meanings in 1834, eight years after the formation of the American Temperance Society.

⁵ Apparently designing grandiose architecture that is never to be built is a far-right, ultranationalist meme: