DoomsdaysCW<p>From Vanity Fair, 1990: "Donald <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, 'Heil <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a>,' possibly as a family joke.</p><p>"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, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MyNewOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MyNewOrder</span></a>, 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 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/propagandist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>propagandist</span></a>.</p><p>"'Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?' I asked Trump.</p><p>"Trump hesitated. 'Who told you that?'</p><p>"'I don't remember,' I said.</p><p>"'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.')"</p><p>Archived version:<br><a href="https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.vanityfair.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadisonSquareGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MadisonSquareGarden</span></a></p>