Which of these historical figures does Donald Trump resemble the most?
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« on: January 14, 2024, 04:32:49 PM »
Trump has been compared to all of the above. IMO it's Mussolini fairly easily, with a touch of Jones and Hubbard. I don't think he has the, um, frankly "neurodivergent" touch that Hitler had which led him to being far more ideological and less cynical than the others in my view.
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2024, 05:24:54 PM »
WI: William Hale Thompson
Of these, though, Mussolini.
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2024, 06:44:08 PM »
L. Ron Hubbard. Both Mussolini and Hitler believed in something, Jones come off as crazy in different way. But Hubbard and Trump share the whole get rich fast, grift as much as possible and if after me the deluge who cares.
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2024, 06:51:30 PM »

William Donald Schaefer a bit too if we're going mayors.
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2024, 06:56:10 PM »
Write-in: Charles Coughlin
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2024, 07:08:13 PM »

That's Tucker Carlson
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2024, 07:26:01 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2024, 09:11:57 AM »
Donald Trump does not particularly resemble any of these people. I guess Hubbard for the reason ingemann gave, but still not that close.
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2024, 10:09:29 AM »
Richard Nixon + Vince McMahon
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2024, 10:12:59 AM »
Mussolini.

Trump, an otherwise ignorant person, has even mastered some of Mussolini's mannerisms. Trump clearly admires Mussolini and wants to resemble him.
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2024, 07:10:13 PM »
A disgusting hodgepodge mix of all four.
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« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2024, 11:26:17 PM »
WI. Netanyahu
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« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2024, 05:15:38 PM »
None of them seem to be a very good fit. I can at least see how stylistically he is Mussolini-esque, though he's definitely not an intellectual in the way Mussolini was. Hitler, I think, is a pretty lazy comparison, as is Jim Jones. L. Ron Hubbard kinda touches on the grifting aspect of Trump, but even that doesn't seem like a good fit. To me, Trump resembles Berlusconi with a bit of Idi Amin.
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« Reply #13 on: January 18, 2024, 05:27:20 PM »
Sulla
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2024, 09:25:49 PM »

He's kind of a mixture of Sulla, Marius, and the Gracci brothers. Although he will never live up to the statesmanship of those figures and their ability to strategize.
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« Reply #15 on: January 19, 2024, 09:23:34 AM »
Silvio Berlusconi.
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« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2024, 11:13:39 AM »

Ding ding ding, correct answer.
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« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2024, 04:03:31 PM »

THis

and from the options Hubbard i guess.
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« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2024, 04:06:34 PM »
« Edited: January 20, 2024, 04:10:42 PM by Laki »
Quote from: Alben Barkley on January 14, 2024, 04:32:49 PM
Trump has been compared to all of the above. IMO it's Mussolini fairly easily, with a touch of Jones and Hubbard. I don't think he has the, um, frankly "neurodivergent" touch that Hitler had which led him to being far more ideological and less cynical than the others in my view.

Hitler definitely had a neurodivergent touch and the only reason he isn't seen as autistic is because nobody wants to claim "him" and because it is impossible to retro-actively diagnose someone with absolute certainty (even if the modern diagnosing process is very flawed as well). It's still way too stereotypical.

There is a reason why Hitler isn't diagnosed with a specific something, because it isn't helpful for anyone if he was given a diagnosis, so it is better non-specified. And secondly because a lot of mental disorders still face stereotypes, such as Hitler was able to touch and entertain crowds with his talent for speech, so he can impossibly be autistic, which is obviously bullsh**t. Anyone saying that has no remote understanding of ASD at all. Besides, his early life has a lot of "checks" for what is typical in people with ASD nowadays.

For Trump, he's about as much of the opposite of how one with ASD would behave like. And his life prior to being president was an arguably succesful one: businessman, very confident as a child. Any pecularities today is because of old age and narcissism.

Trump isn't even remotely similar to Hitler.
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« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2024, 04:40:19 PM »
Mango Mussolini is my second favorite nickname for Trump.
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« Reply #20 on: January 21, 2024, 06:14:06 AM »
« Edited: January 21, 2024, 11:27:35 AM by CumbrianLefty »

He's not as good a fit for Mr Bunga-Bunga as a certain British ex-PM, though.
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« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2024, 09:15:44 AM »
Strange characters of both the 1930s and 1990s in his own country share quite a few things in common with him. For the former, Charles Coughlin (who has already been mentioned), Huey Long and Gerald L. K. Smith. For the latter, Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura and Pat Buchanan (all of whom were 'comrades' of his in the Reform Party).

Mussolini and Berlusconi are reasonable comparisons in some ways.
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« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2024, 02:18:58 PM »
Comparing Trump to Hitler isn’t wholly accurate, because it implies that Trump actually believes in something beyond personal enrichment.
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