Trump Is Obsessed With Having a Dictator-Level Military

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had," Trump said in a private conversation in the White House, according to two sources that spoke anonymously with The Atlantic.
30% : "But Trump wouldn't hear of it.
30% : After offering in front of TV cameras to help personally pay for the funeral of Vanessa Guillén, a 20-year-old Army private who was beaten to death by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood, Trump reportedly complained to his then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about the cost of the burial.
29% : A new report by The Atlantic found that, in private, Trump had openly praised the authoritarian setup of some of history's greatest villains, including Adolf Hitler.
29% : When asked by The Atlantic about the exchange for the story published Tuesday, Kelly recalled that when Trump had raised the matter of "German generals," Kelly responded by asking, "'Do you mean Bismarck's generals?'""I mean, I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War.
27% : "But Trump did not know who Rommel was, either.
22% : Meanwhile, Trump has spent months expressing outward disdain for Americans who actually served in the military.
21% : During the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Trump complained several times that the U.S. military wasn't as draconian as the Chinese.
18% : After Senator John McCain died in 2018, Trump reportedly told aides that they were "not going to support that loser's funeral" and was irate that the White House had lowered its flags to half-mast in honor of the war hero.
13% : "While in a frustrated discussion with then-Chief of Staff John Kelly, a former Marine general, Trump reportedly asked, "Why can't you be like the German generals?" forgetting that Hitler's top generals had themselves defied him and made several attempts toward the end of World War II to kill him.
9% : "It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican," Trump reportedly said, ordering Meadows not to pay it.

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