Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’ | Donald Trump

Donald Trump has enthusiastically agreed with the public assessment of a man he met while playing golf that the “overwhelming difference” between the current US president and fear-mongering historical figures such as Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stalin, Mao and Hitler is that Trump is stronger.

US president I republished a short text In the early hours of Friday morning, the author writes:

“Historically powerful people were characterized by brutal conquests and the fear they instilled in the peoples who came under their influence. Common names that come to mind are Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hunting, Tamerlane, Napoleon and, more recently, Hitler, Mao and Stalin.”

“The biggest difference between each of the above compared to President Trump is their lack of global reach.”

“That sounds good!” Trump wrote, calling the author “presidential historian Dave King.”

King is not actually a historian but a Scottish-born businessman who now lives in South Africa and was previously chairman of the Glasgow-based Rangers Football Club, which competed in the Scottish Premier League.

Trump appears to have first encountered him while King was caddying for fellow Hall of Fame golfer Gary Player, who was attending an event in his honor.

CNN reported on friday He said Trump first mentioned the document in March during an interview with New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their book Regime Change, which chronicles the first 14 months of Trump’s second term and will be published next week.

According to CNN, when reporters asked Trump to describe his power and place in world history, Trump asked his aides to bring him a two-page document he received from someone he described as a “historian.”

Brandishing this document, Haberman and Swan wrote, Trump “recited the names of some of the most powerful figures in history, explaining how each of them fell short of his own power as president of the United States.”

Trump reportedly said leaders “maintain their power through fear.” “Who would do something like that? Right?”

CNN said Haberman and Swan eventually identified the “historian” in question as King, and King told them that he “first shared his assessment of Trump’s power with Player, then expressed it directly to Trump while golfing in Florida.”

The book is based on more than 1,000 interviews over a three-year period. A review published by the Times on Friday includes comments Trump made in the same interview when he was asked to reflect on his legal battles and presidential campaigns.

“I actually won every time,” Trump reportedly said. “And I’m tired of winning and winning and winning and getting the bad press. It’s time to tell the truth. Okay?”

According to the New York Times, two journalists reported that Trump also said he was considering appointing Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a rival candidate for the presidency, as secretary of defense. “We need plot changes,” Trump reportedly told a “confused ally.”

The Times also added that the president told a high-level Oval Office meeting: “I’m not a big fan of Ukraine… except for its women. They keep winning Miss Universe.”

Elsewhere in the book, the authors write that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt found Trump in the Oval Office “holding a tube of superglue and attempting to adhere gold ornaments to the marble mantelpiece,” according to CNN.

The book also states that Trump chose to make former Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell’s life miserable rather than fire him, and decided to do this by focusing on the cost of renovating the Federal Reserve building.

“Honestly, I want to bust his balls,” Trump said of Powell at a meeting last year. “What about that damn building? Can we stop it? Can we stop the construction? I want to bust his fucking balls. Fuck him.”

Trump’s delight in being compared to dictators stems from comments he has made over the years about his admiration for autocrats and strongmen like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un.