Trump: Reminds you of Hitler, Mussolini or who ?

[steve2470]

Hitler to me, although I can understand the Mussolini reference

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	Hitler
	2 (13%)
	Mussolini
	6 (40%)
	No one else in particular
	1 (7%)
	Other, see my post
	4 (27%)
	42
	0 (0%)
	Beer
	2 (13%)
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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. P.T. Barnum

[XemaSab]

22. That's what I was finna say

n/t

[Blanks]

2. He's a combination of...

George W. Bush (businessman) and Ronald Reagan (celebrity).

[Johonny]

5. +1

[Hortensis]

31. Lol, especially for the business part.

I put no one else because we truly have had no one like him. Maybe some small nation somewhere has or briefly had a similarly mentally dysfunctional leader, but I don't have a name to offer.

[DLevine]

3. Biff Tannen. nt

[brettdale]

19. haha

Hey Butthead.

Spot on, hes a real life Biff!

[NewImproved Deal]

4. Silvio Berlusconi is the closest political example.

[Demonaut]

24. a Berlusconi with no ethical standards

[Hoyt]

6. He reminds my of Andrew Dice Clay running for GOPer nominee. I still believe he won't be on the

ballot in November. My fall back is that he will name a credible VP candidate -- credible as far as GOPers go -- so that when he gets tired of being Prez (should he win), he can resign for health reasons or something. I think he's still in this for the publicity, which is why he got in. After getting in the race, he was surprised how fast his racism/bigotry caught on with GOPers.

I think Clinton will wipe the floor with Trump, but an economic disaster, major terrorist attack, or some trumped up event could put a GOPer in the office. That's a real concern.

[awoke_in_2003]

9. Part of me thinks

this is performance art gone horribly wrong

[Hoyt]

11. Good way to put it. Hope voters see it that way.

[rurallib]

7. There was an old movie called "A Face In The Crowd" starring Andy Griffith

as a nobody from Arkansas who is promoted into being the hottest biggest name in America by the media. As he grows more popular his fame and power really go to his head and he believes he can do whatever he pleases.

Been a long time since I have seen it but I think I got it about right. Seems like Trump and the media that made him.

[Blanks]

12. There was a Peter Sellers movie...

Named 'Being There' where a mansion's gardener was dismissed because the owner died and he fell into political circles and talked about gardening. Everyone thought he was speaking in analogies, but he was just a simple gardener.

He kept rising in popularity. Kind of like Trump.

[NightWatcher]

8. Tony Clifton

[IDemo]

10. Elmer Gantry n/t

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. Hoover

Histories and potential policy views seem similar IMO.

[Runningdawg]

14. George Wallace

[pampango]

20. Agreed and I would add Pat Buchanan. They both appealed to white angst about a changing world. n/t

[kwassa]

15. Joe McCarthy.

[L. Coyote]

16. Lord Humungus, the leader of a merciless and psychotic gang of marauders seeking all power.

http://madmax.wikia.com/wiki/Lord_Humungus[center]


Except, old, fat, wrinkled, more demented, but better hair.

[Warren DeMontague]

17. He reminds me of the king on bugs bunny who wanted yosemite sam to make him hasenpfeffer.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Elements of Benito

With a good dash of Franco and Berkusconi...with some Putin and George Wallace...trumpism is what it is, a 21st century for of very American fascism with a dash of inverted totalitarianism

[UTUSN]

21. A *pissant* - or, alternatively - a *DINGLEBERRY*!1

[Initech]

23. Beer, of which I will need to stock up on plenty to get through the election.

[ornotna]

25. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

He's a charlatan.

[Scootaloo]

26. He ain't called Il Douche for nothing

[revmclaren]

27. Histolinni

A mix of Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini.

[LisaM]

28. Oswald Mosely.

He had some scary followers.

[Person 2713]

29. I voted most like Hitler but from the Times:

“Trump’s pattern of elevating emotional appeals over rational ones is a rhetorical style that historians, psychologists and political scientists placed in the tradition of Goldwater, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, Huey Long and Pat Buchanan.” The men were all notorious American hate-mongers like Adolf Hitler who used vile language, propaganda, and fear to win favor with scared Americans.

In fact, in responding to a request from the Times, “Several historians watched Trump’s speeches last week and observed familiar techniques, like vilifying groups of people and stoking the insecurities of his audiences, that they associate with racist George Wallace and fascist Joseph McCarthy;” two of America’s worst, most notorious, and extremely dangerous demagogues.

So he could be any of many haters the world has seen
This talks about his long hitler love

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/12/13/donald-trump-sounds-acts-adolf-hitler-running-fuhrer.html

It is not unusual for a politician, especially one running for a national office, to study carefully highly successful political leaders’ campaign speeches and rhetoric. It should surprise no American that Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, Donald Trump, also carefully studied a highly-successful politician, except it was not an American and not the kind of monster any decent American should emulate. Donald Trump is not remotely a decent American, and based on his embrace of Adolf Hitler’s volume of speeches he made between 1918 and 1941, he intends on being an effective Nazi instead of a good American.

It is not like it was a secret that Trump’s hateful speeches, and more troubling, his policy proposals are very close to those instituted in Nazi Germany; even some conservatives have cited his “fascism.” However, the idea that he has studied, at least since prior to 1990, a book of speeches Hitler used in his rise to power should put an end to complaints about comparing him to Hitler or Godwin’s law.

I want to add his ego adds a little Kim Jong il into the mix IMO

[bemildred]

30. Other: a long list of past American politicians, some listed in this thread. nt

[wiggs]

32. Love child of Rush Limbaugh and Sylvio Berlusconi. nt