The revelations about the Trump presidency keep coming. And frankly, they are as unsurprising as they are outlandish. The latest is from a new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost where author Michael Bender writes of one instance where Trump praised Adolf Hitler. The Guardian cites a passage where he allegedly told then-chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.” The publication adds, “The remark from the former US president on the 2018 trip, which reportedly ‘stunned’ Kelly, a retired US Marine Corps general.”
Bender reports that Trump made the remark during an impromptu history lesson in which Kelly “reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities”.
Kelly reportedly told Trump “you cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler. You just can’t.” But that didn’t seem to stop his admiration. USA Today adds:
Citing unnamed sources, Bender wrote that Kelly “told the president that he was wrong, but Trump was undeterred.” The former president cited Germany’s economic recovery in the 1930s under Hitler, to which Kelly “argued that the German people would have been better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide.”