Trump: 'I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : (Throughout the course of his presidency, Trump referred to flag officers as "my generals.")
51% : This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: "No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him," the president responded.
39% : By Jeffrey Goldberg(snip)Retired General Barry McCaffrey, a decorated Vietnam veteran, told me that Trump does not comprehend such traditional military virtues as honor and self-sacrifice.
39% : He told me that when Trump raised the subject of "German generals," Kelly responded by asking, "'Do you mean Bismarck's generals?'"
39% : Kelly admonished Trump: "I said, 'Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy.
38% : Kelly -- a retired Marine general who, as a young man, had volunteered to serve in Vietnam despite actually suffering from bone spurs -- said in an interview for the CNN reporter Jim Sciutto's book, The Return of Great Powers, that Trump praised aspects of Hitler's leadership.
27% : "(snip)In their book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported that Trump asked John Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, "Why can't you be like the German generals?"
25% : Trump, at various points, had grown frustrated with military officials he deemed disloyal and disobedient.
19% : According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals "tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off."
9% : Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.(snip)

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