Trump praises historian's comparison to Hitler, Mao and Stalin

newsJun 18, 20261893

President Donald Trump reshared a presidential historian's ranking that placed him alongside Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, and Joseph Stalin and added the caption "Sounds good to me!". The historian framed the list around global reach and influence, arguing modern communication and power make Trump's reach exceed those dictators' territorial conquests. By publicly endorsing the comparison, Trump equated his leadership with genocidal autocrats, a development that intensifies scrutiny of his rhetoric and how he defines presidential power ahead of the 2024 campaign.

Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️

@jen.sheshed.rocks

Trump just endorsed comparisons to history's worst dictators On TS, he reshared a post crowning him more powerful than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan "Sounds good to me!" The debate over presidential rhetoric just hit a whole new level Unprecedented rhetoric from a sitting president #SheShed

Trumps truth social post saying he approves of being more powerful that Hitler, etc.

562h ago

Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️20

Trump shares post claiming he is the ‘most powerful person’ to ever walk the planet www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Christina Haas 86474

Just because some fake historian kisses his ass, doesn't change the fact that Trump is a weak little man, with the mentality of a toddler. Real historians, and people with working brain cells, know exactly what he is.

Divider Decider 👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Renee GOOD, ICE BAD)4

Divider He wants a legacy of overturning elections, dismantling government and free press, and stealing our liberties No Imperial Presidents! No Dictators! No Kings! #ImpeachConvictRemove = #DOOR

Max Quinn3

To me, it's sort of impressive just how emphatically guys like Dave King want to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt just how little they understand history.

jrock52.bsky.social2

Who has the spine to shut this asshole down...

#TuckFrump

@realtuckfrumper.bsky.social

Trump praises comparison of himself to 'Hitler, Mao, and Stalin': 'Sounds good to me!' #RawStory

155h ago

Prolapsed Cologne2

Hitler killed 8m Germans Mao killed 45m Chinese Statin I believe 9mRussians

P Collirigger2

We are proverbial boiled frogs. 10 years ago accusations that he wanted to be a dictator were dismissed as frothy nonsense. Now he just says it out loud and everyone shrugs.

tomwellborn3rd

@wellborn.net

Harvard's David King ranked Trump above Hitler, Mao, and Stalin on global power reach. Trump reposted it with 'Sounds good to me!' Vance once called him 'America's Hitler' before deciding that was actually a job offer.

54h ago

Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine

@svecrumba.bsky.social

Power hungry man-child Trump thinks a historian comparing him to Mao, Stalin and Hitler and other brutal dictators is a compliment. www.rawstory.com/trump-histor...

33h ago

Frank Amari

@frankamari.bsky.social

Trump took no issue with these hagiographic comments, even as they directly linked him to the likes of Hitler, Genghis Khan, Joseph Stalin, and more. “Sounds good to me!” he wrote above the post. newrepublic.com/post/212044/...

32h ago

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@lovekat41.bsky.social

I need people to wake up out of their slumber. Are you fucking kidding me with this!?! Out of all the deranged things he posts, this idea challenging him to conquer more and comparing him to the worst history has to offer, as though it’s a compliment? Dangerous and insane. 🤮🤮🤮

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump • 8h
Presidential Historian Dave King - Sounds good to me!
Historically, powerful people were characterised by brutal conquest and the fear that they instilled in the populations that came under their influence. Common names that would come to mind are Alexander the Great, the Caesars, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Tamburlaine, Napoleon and, more recently, Hitler, Mao, and Stalin.
The overwhelming difference between each of the above when compared with President Trump is their lack of global reach. Their power was limited to restricted local areas (even though some of these areas were quite large in a local context). They had nowhere near the control over modern logistics, manpower, technology, and the global economic muscle that President Trump can enforce.
Alexander the Great and the Caesars were confined to the Mediterranean and small parts of North Africa, Europe, and India. Genghis Khan, Tamburlaine, and Attila the Hun were butchers who destroyed mainly small villages over parts of Asia in what is now largely Russia. They were terrorists- and more like the Taliban than people with real power. Napoleon had similar local influence- mainly in parts of Europe and North Africa.
But he came unstuck when he moved against Russia.
Even though Russia was a backward nation, its size made military logistics too challenging, hence resulting in complete failure for Napoleon. Hitler repeated Napoleon's mistake in Russia.
Mao and Lenin had access to immense power within the Chinese and Russian populations and some of their
them from ever having a meaningful global reach.
The collapse of Communism (even though Russia and China have never been truly communist countries) has seen the USA emerge as the first truly global superpower. Additionally, President Trump is the first leader to be willing to use that power on a global scale.
That makes him by far the most powerful person that has EVER walked this planet.
On a final note, I touch on the Presi…

54h ago

SteveG

@trenchdiggr.bsky.social

Evergreen: Trump believes nothing. He'll say anything. Trump's idea of "truth" requires no relationship to objective reality. It is just what sounds good to him at the moment. And tomorrow could very well be the polar opposite. Utterly unfit to be in any position of power.

321h ago

Robert MJ Thompson

@wh0n0z.bsky.social

As a student of history I wondered how a populace could tolerate the likes of Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Pot, Stalin, Mao –– to name a few tyrants of yore. Now past 70 I see the reality of amurica & understand. Trump announces a Fourth of July "Trump Rally" open.substack.com/pub/anntelna...

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omnisom.bsky.social

@omnisom.bsky.social

So arrest Trump and Elon and Putin for saying it? Sounds good.

12h ago

Republicans Are Traitors

@leftlimelight.bsky.social

He's a fucking lunatic, elected democrats must start treating republicans as a threat to our country, because they are an existential threat. www.rawstory.com/trump-histor...

4h ago

That Snarky Autistic Chick

@ladysnark.bsky.social

Who could've foreseen that a guy who spoke approvingling of Xi "ruling his country with an iron fist" would think being put in the same category with Hitler, Mao, and Stalin sounded good to him?

4h ago

hardknoxfirst.bsky.social

@hardknoxfirst.bsky.social

"Trump praises comparison of himself to ‘Hitler, Mao, and Stalin’: ‘Sounds Read to me!’" (RawStory) on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-7WqeyGfm/z... #SmartNews

4h ago

Pulsa8

@pulsa8.bsky.social

Says the guy who publicly exclaims he admires Hitler, Stalin and Mao "Ma, ma, nobody likes me anymore, ma, ma" Bronze-free Trump's 'startling' appearance at the G7 gave the game away: www.rawstory.com/trump-g7/

4h ago

William Snyder

@profsnyder.bsky.social

Read carefully, please. Still think he's sane? Trump says it sounds good to him that the difference between him and the most brutal despots in history is that they lacked his global reach, not brutal conquest or "the fear that they instilled in the populations that came under their influence."

6h ago

Paul Allen

@paulballen.bsky.social

Trump say . Presidential Historian Dave King — Sounds good to me! ,.,.,.,.,.F47

13h ago

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