Trump told top aides he wanted the same kind of 'totally loyal' generals 'that Hitler had'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : The four-star Marine general also frequently had to educate Trump about the basics of both military structure and military history.
49% : When Trump asked him who the "good guys" were in World War I, Kelly told him that it's customary for U.S. presidents to consider any nation allied with the United States to be the protagonists in any foreign war.
41% : "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had," Trump said, according to unnamed White House aides speaking confidentially to the Atlantic.
36% : Vanessa Guillén -- who was beaten to death by her boyfriend at age 20 while stationed at Fort Hood in Texas -- sent the White House the bill for their daughter's funeral after Trump specifically asked them to at a White House meeting.
28% : Sidney Blumenthal, who was an advisor to both Bill and Hillary Clinton, recently wrote in the Guardian about how Trump is echoing Hitler in calling Democrats "the enemy from within," and his claims that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country."Click here to read Goldberg's full article in the Atlantic (subscription required).READ MORE: 'Modern-day Hitler': Experts sound alarm over Trump heaping praise on 'autocrat' Orbán
17% : In a Tuesday report, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote about his conversations with General John Kelly (Trump's former Department of Homeland Security secretary and ex-White House chief of staff) who described how Trump harbored a peculiarly disdain for the military.
13% : "READ MORE: This Trump trait makes him 'even more dangerous' than Hitler and Mussolini: ex-Dem senatorKelly told Goldberg that he had to gently remind Trump that there were multiple occasions in which Hitler's generals tried and failed to assassinate him, like on July 20, 1944.
4% : READ MORE: 'Why he's going to lose again': Trump slammed for keynoting event filled with 'Nazi-linked groups'"Trump became angry," Goldberg wrote, adding that Trump reportedly said "it doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f -- ing Mexican!"

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