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[msongs]

2. snopes rates this as false. not able to find any such thing in time mag issues nt

[SCantiGOP]

9. Please take down the OP

It is fake, which I could tell as I read it.
This is no different than a Trump twitter lie.

[cstanleytech]

18. To clarify they said he never made that statement on the other hand Ivana said he does

own a book of Hitler's speeches and reads it in bed occasionally which given his tone and actions since he came into office I can believe.

[Turbineguy]

3. He's a very sick man.

And has been for a long time.

[spanone]

4. Memoirs of an American 'President'.

Future historians will shake their heads at this era.

[dchill]

5. Admirable.

[rickford66]

6. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-hitler-mein-kampf/

[Ms. Toad]

10. Since people don't generally like to follow links - here's the gist of it.

Not only were we unable to locate an original source for this quote, or evidence that Time magazine even interviewed Trump in 2002, but we found no discernible record of its existence before the meme first surfaced in April 2019. Yet it’s the kind of statement that would have been quoted ad nauseum in the press had Trump said it. No such references exist.


Nor were we able to find isolated instances of Trump praising Mein Kampf or Adolf Hitler in public statements. The cadence and grammar of the passage are Trump-like (“… but I do respect him. As a leader. Tremendous respect.”), but all indications point to its being fabricated.

[cstanleytech]

19. True but then we have this

It appears, on the other hand, that Trump did (and perhaps still does) own a collection of Hitler’s speeches that a friend presented to him as a gift. According to Vanity Fair, Ivana Trump told her lawyer that her husband kept the book near his bedside and occasionally read from it. Also according to Vanity Fair, however, Trump insisted he had never read it, nor would he.

[Duppers]

20. Yep, FALSE.

I'm sure the illiterate pos couldn't get thorough the book.

[RockRaven]

7. welp... snopes.

oh, well.

[Karadeniz]

8. He said he read it in college...maybe. But a friend of his said he gave Trump a copy of Hitler's

Speeches, telling Trump he would enjoy it and Ivana confirmed that that book was what was on his nightstand for reading.

[abqtommy]

11. It's a pity that tRUMP has never read the last chapter of the story of Hitler's life...

[radical noodle]

12. Not true...

although it certainly sounds like something he might say. Still, he didn't.

[VOX]

13. The Time Magazine quote is false, but Vanity Fair's 1990 interview with Trump is TRUE.

And pretty damning. Note the signature Trump “denial” at the end.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/donald-trump-marie-brenner-ivana-divorce/amp
Vanity Fair
August 5, 2015
7 Takeaways from Vanity Fair’s 1990 Profile of Donald Trump
<snip>
Twenty-five years ago, this magazine’s Marie Brenner spent some time with Trump for an investigation into the dissolution of his marriage to Ivana Trump. In retrospect, the story has all the trappings of a perfect Trump piece: discord between reality and Trump’s claims about it, accusations of disloyalty, and triumphant highs amid a string of batted-away lows. Here are seven takeaways that still matter.
<snip>
Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
“Did your cousin John give you the Hitler speeches?” I asked Trump.
Trump hesitated. “Who told you that?”
“I don’t remember,” I said.
“Actually, it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he’s a Jew.” (“I did give him a book about Hitler,” Marty Davis said. “But it was My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf. I thought he would find it interesting. I am his friend, but I’m not Jewish.”)
Later, Trump returned to this subject. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them.”
<snip>

[radical noodle]

14. I really can't imagine him reading anything

but maybe in the past, his attention span wasn't the size of a gnat.

[VOX]

15. Maybe some 30 years ago, he could manage a paragraph...

Before picking up the TV remote again, after a (very) short break.

[radical noodle]

17. Maybe they made a child's version

of the book with large illustrations? He might be able to follow along with that.

[VOX]

21. *Might be*

If I were a betting man, I’d put everything on *might not*.

[flibbitygiblets]

16. What he actually read was "Mein Covfefe"