this is another issue on which there is no similarity between Trump and Hitler. Trump has an elaborate sense of humor and often even makes fun of himself. One of my distant relatives in Germany was a Nazi prosecutor. He sought the death penalty for a shipyard worker who had written a funny poem about Hitler. The man was shot. Like almost all despots, Hitler had no sense of humor, leave alone self-irony.
Equating Trump to Hitler not only shows a pitiful lack of understanding who Trump is and what he tries to accomplish. It also shows a dangerous lack of understanding who Hitler really was and what he did and the severity of his crimes, his war mongering, his insane ideas of racial superiority and inferiority, and his imperial aspirations. Maybe equating Trump to Julius Caesar works better. Here is Mark Anthony about Trump (loosely based on Shakespeare):
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