Donald Trump has a problem with saying things completely off the cuff. And by that, I don’t mean he makes funny jokes on the fly or could win a rap battle. I mean he literally doesn’t think about the words that are about to come out of his mouth.
But apparently, Trump’s penchant for giving nicknames — Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe — to his political opponents is not limited to just him.
President Joe Biden’s staffers refer to Trump as “Hitler Pig.”
I don’t think there can be much doubt what they mean, but the reasoning behind it is sound: It’s no secret that Trump has invoked in minds around the country an image of a man who would be dictator, if only he could.
In fact, he’s said literally some of the same things Adolf Hitler said.
Yes, we all knew that his deceased wife Ivana, buried on his golf course in New Jersey, claimed that he had a book of Hitler’s speeches on his nightstand.
But some of Hitler’s rhetoric has made its way into Trump’s speeches as well, like when he referred to immigrants late last year as “poisoning the blood of this country.” That’s not a mirror of what Hitler said, it’s literally WHAT HITLER SAID.
Trump would later go on to claim he never knew that Hitler said that.
Can we just pause for a moment and note that I have never used the word “Hitler” so many times in a single article, but that it makes sense it would be one about Trump? Obviously, there’s a reason people call him that:
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He once told his former chief of staff, General John Kelly, that “Hitler did a lot of good things.” Then he complained when he was warned not to SAY NICE THINGS ABOUT HITLER.
This is being reported as a thing that’s bad about Biden staffers, but honestly, you can’t blame them, with as much Hitler stuff as Trump has said. And the “pig” bit, well… He’s a pig.
Apparently, whenever it’s revealed that Trump’s said some new offensive thing, Biden staffers ask each other, “Hey, did you hear what Hilter Pig said?”
Biden hasn’t gone that far himself, but he has shown that he’s willing to go on the offensive more often against an opponent like Trump than many of his predecessors have been willing to take on their political opponents. During a recent speech, Biden delivered what seemed like an anecdote about a man who was swallowed by debt.
But it turned out to be a joke. The punchline? “I’m sorry, Donald, I can’t help.”
You’ll see plenty of outlets report that “Biden called Trump Hitler,” and that’s simply not true. But, I mean, it could be said, and be mostly true.