Trump at Ford Motor Co. reminding everyone how much their founder admired Nazis

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Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien 14h
I’m sure Ford Motor Co appreciates the President reminding everyone how much their founder admired the nazis.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. He had to be removed because he was running the company into the ground.

His grandson Henry Ford II was put in office to save the company.

The coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse

When Edsel Ford died of cancer in 1943, aged only 49, Henry Ford nominally resumed control of the company, but a series of strokes in the late 1930s had left him increasingly debilitated, and his mental ability was fading. Ford was increasingly sidelined, and others made decisions in his name. The company was in fact controlled by a handful of senior executives led by Charles Sorensen, an important engineer and production executive at Ford; and Harry Bennett, the chief of Ford's Service Unit, Ford's paramilitary force that spied on, and enforced discipline upon, Ford employees. Ford grew jealous of the publicity Sorensen received and forced Sorensen out in 1944. Ford's incompetence led to discussions in Washington about how to restore the company, whether by wartime government fiat, or by instigating some sort of coup among executives and directors. Nothing happened until 1945 when, with bankruptcy a serious risk, Ford's wife Clara and Edsel's widow Eleanor confronted him and demanded he cede control of the company to his grandson Henry Ford II. They threatened to sell off their stock, which amounted to three quarters of the company's total shares, if he refused. Ford was reportedly infuriated, but had no choice but to give in. The young man took over and, as his first act of business, fired Harry Bennett.

[dameatball]

2. He doesn't write speeches and whoever wrote this one knew exactly what message it was sending.

Highly doubtful Trump brings that up on his own.

[Mike 03]

5. Stephen Miller's fingerprints on this speech, I'm speculating.

Trump doesn't know the first thing about this subject matter.

[lagomorph777]

8. Exactly. Deliberate Nazi taint from Stephen "Goebbels" Miller.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. As dog whistles go, it was somewhat clever.

So yeah, I'm giving credit for this racist crap to Miller as well.

[agingdem]

13. that wasn't dog whistles

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that was a bull horn...and Miller, the vile insidious, self-hating Jew, more than likely didn't write this particular speech...this is Trump riffing..this is the anti-semitic diarrhea in his head spewing out of the putrid hole in his face ...Hitler's Mein Kampf is Trump's bible and Hitler cited Ford with his own very "special" shoutout...this "bloodline" pile of steaming hate is Trump with no "as told to Miller"...

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. There is the possibility that Fred Trump was a huge Ford admirer and drummed it into his son

Remember, Fred Trump was arrested at a KKK riot, and had a racist policy against renting to black people. And Donald has an obsession with showing how his 'bloodline' shows he's clever, because his uncle was.

It is more likely that Miller introduced it into the speech, but Trump may have understood the message fully.

[dameatball]

15. That is certainly plausible.

[ecstatic]

12. Donald Trump's ex-wife once said trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed

umm, trump knew too.

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"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 ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend for visibility.

[madaboutharry]

4. That line was probably whispered in his ear by Stephen Miller,

Trump’s favorite wanna-be nazi.

Sometimes I think the reason Trump is angry all the time is because he can’t get away with wearing a red arm band.

[Mike 03]

7. This.

I'm surprised Miller didn't sneak "blood and soil" into this speech somewhere.

[Demsrule86]

6. This is a specific message to the Nazis who support him...

a dog whistle.

[sellitman]

10. Nobody in my whole family has ever had a Ford

My father wouldn't allow it. He and my ancestors knew.

Trump or his speech writers knew.

What Nationalists all over are rejoicing.

[luvs2sing]

14. Ford also promoted square dancing..

and old time fiddle contests as a way to try to destroy the popularity of jazz.

[link:https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy/|

[dalton99a]

16. Kick

[smirkymonkey]

17. Absolutely sickening!

And he laughs about it. What a pig!