The president was previously forced to abandon plans for a procession in Washington, D.C., due to its colossal price tag.
  • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
    2241·
    6 days ago

    Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

    • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1222·
      6 days ago

      Anyone who hasn’t watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.

      This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
        60·
        6 days ago

        Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

        Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

      • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
        231·
        6 days ago

        is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
          17·
          5 days ago

          https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

          Yes.

          Literally Hitler.

          ‘My New Order’, a collection of Hitler’s speeches up through 1939.

          Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

          Did people not know about this or forget this?

          Trump literally routinely read Hitler’s speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

          Lefties who were politically active during Trump’s 2015 campaign were… fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed ‘You’re just calling him a fascist because everything you don’t like is fascist’ at us.

          Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn’t know this?

          Or are you just younger and/or weren’t so politically involved a decade ago?

          • buwho@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            thanks i didnt know this. i kinda got the cibes that this was the case, but had never heard of that until now. not something they taught us in school. im not necessarily “younger” but i was very disconnected for a long time between no phone, couch surfing punk houses, hobo life, then just living in rural New Mexico until like 7 years ago.

        • Tiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          14·
          6 days ago

          I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

          • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            6 days ago

            My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

            He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

            He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

            I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

              • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                5 days ago

                Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump’s cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

                Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

                Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler’s speeches.

        • Cyborganism@lemmy.caEnglish
          6·
          6 days ago

          Yeah there’s a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

          You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

        • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
          71·
          6 days ago

          i mean. i guess. it’s titled “my daddy never hugged me and kept me away from my mom, whom he may or may not have effectively purchased on account of how incredibly impoverished she was”

        • AJ1@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          there’s a playbook, for sure. it’s not officially published, but every d-bag like this gets a copy