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IronLionZion
(50,813 posts)Turbineguy
(39,840 posts)And people re-elected him.
Irish_Dem
(79,722 posts)EYESORE 9001
(29,449 posts)Yer team lost.
Irish_Dem
(79,722 posts)Someone wins, someone loses.
The loss of life or patriotism mean nothing to him.
Walleye
(43,807 posts)Hes not only never read a book. Apparently hes never even watched a movie.
milestogo
(22,545 posts)He's seen all of Stormy Daniels, I hear.
Walleye
(43,807 posts)And I guess you can learn from pornography. I dont know never been that into it.
JohnnyRingo
(20,493 posts)I just think he said something stupid. So stupid he should not be in a position of power.
In his over simplistic binary mind he saw that we won and Germany lost, so he was extending some kind of acknowledgment that it was a bad day for Nazi Germany. Too stupid to realize the current government is unconnected to that regime.
Any normal person would have shrunk in embarrassment, but he's too stupid to even recognize it.
milestogo
(22,545 posts)His understanding of history is as superficial as it gets.
SocialDemocrat61
(6,792 posts)that Melania .
SheltieLover
(76,697 posts)Fking idiot.
bucolic_frolic
(53,996 posts)karynnj
(60,775 posts)The error more likely could have been assuming all Germans, including those not alive in 1945, identify with the Nazis as their side.
This might be another part of the authoritarian mindset that he and most Republicans have. As has been noted here many times, Republicans tend to line up behind their leaders. Democrats are more likely to question their country when they think it is wrong.
Trump is 100 percent an authoritarian.
Wounded Bear
(63,822 posts)and traveled to France to "honor" it.
unblock
(55,903 posts)obviously, he thinks negative stereotypes about minorities and women apply to members of those groups. that's basic bigotry. but donnie is in for that logic completely, for any group. he's far too stupid to differentiate within groups.
new york didn't vote for him? punish new yorkers (when he pushed to limit the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes) doesn't matter to him that there are lots of republicans in new york, doesn't even matter to him that that limitation disproportionately affects richer new yorkers, who are more likely to be republican.
a few people on a small admissions committee didn't admit barron, so he wants to destroy harvard in its entirety.
maine's governor hurt his fee-fees so he froze funds for food for maine schoolchildren. because "maine" was mean to him, so he hits back at maine.
so, d-day was a bad day for germany because it was the beginning of the end for germany in the war, and he's talking to the leader of germany, so it was a bad day for germany and a bad day for him.
the concept that most of germany hated living under hitler and they were happy to be liberated from that is completely lost on him. he's far too simplistic for that.
milestogo
(22,545 posts)unblock
(55,903 posts)he's a "l'etat, c'est moi" kind of guy.
"make america great again" means "make donnie rich and powerful". same thing.
he *is* america, in his own mind.
anyone who disagrees is unamerican and should be in prison or exiled.
sarisataka
(22,216 posts)I find it more alarming that he sees the current German government a spiritual successor to the Nazi regime
usedtobedemgurl
(1,927 posts)Democrat and just wrote an EO barring D Day from our country!