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14. "That's Hitler!," Bannon thought.

Steve Bannon thought Trump looked like Hitler as he descended the escalator at his 2016 campaign debut: book

Jake Lahut
Business Insider, Feb. 8, 2022

* A new book from New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters details the origins of the 2016 Trump campaign.

* Steve Bannon, an early Trump advisor, was reminded of a Nazi propaganda film on announcement day.

* Peters writes that Bannon's immediate reaction to Trump's golden escalator ride was "That's Hitler!"

When Donald Trump rode a golden escalator down to announce his presidential candidacy in 2015, the carefully choreographed scene before TV crews reminded a soon-to-be Trump advisor of scenes from one of the most effective propaganda films ever made.

"That's Hitler!, Bannon thought, as the opening scene of Leni Riefenstahl's seminal work of Nazi propaganda, 'Triumph of the Will,' flashed through his mind," New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters writes in his new book, "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted."

In his notes on sourcing — which involved interviews with over 300 people, mostly while Trump was still in office — Peters explains that quotes presented in italics and in the past tense indicate "material from interviews conducted with the author on-the-record."

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https://www.businessinsider.com/bannon-thought-trump-resembled-hitler-on-his-escalator-ride-book-2022-2

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