What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire?

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Donald Trump is reminiscent of Kaiser Wilhelm II, during whose reign the upper echelons of the German government began to unravel into a free-for-all.

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Jeff said…
With all the admittedly valid comparisons between Trump and Hitler, it would appear that Dumb Donnie is much more like Kaiser Wilhelm II than Hitler.

Hitler was charming, personal, persuasive, astute, intelligent, and charismatic before the gradual onset his increasingly pathological egotism, paranoia and possibly syphilitic dementia. Trump is now and never was any of these except egotistic, paranoid and possibly demented. Hitler did not have that pathetic streak of narcissism that characterizes Trump's every utterance.

Like Kaiser Willie was, Trump is socially inept, emotionally bankrupt, absolutely without a conscience, without a shred of charisma, more concerned with appearance than reality, a pathological liar, obsessed with the delusion of being in personal control of an empire and all it contains, completely unaware of history, unable to understand the simplest political concepts, malevolently dangerous, and stupendously unintelligent. In other words, he is the reincarnation of Kaiser Wilhelm in the skin of a pig.