Donald Trump would have praised highly controversial figures like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, according to a former aide. The former American president even went so far as to mention Hitler, in a positive way.
Donald Trump is currently campaigning for the next US presidential election which will take place in November. The former American head of state often made divisive remarks. His statements have sometimes been considered very radical. Some fear excesses if he returns to power. During a meeting in Iowa less than a year before the election, the American president assured "that he would not abuse his power to take revenge except on the first day" to close the borders, as Huffpost reported.
This statement strongly reacted to Joe Biden's camp, which described Donald Trump as a future "dictator": "Donald Trump told us tonight exactly what he was going to do if he was re-elected and he said he would be a dictator on day one.” The former leader also shocked by calling his opponents "vermin" and again, the White House camp judged his remarks worthy of the speeches of Mussolini or Hitler in the 1930s.
According to Gen. John Kelly, a retired Marine and former chief of staff to Donald Trump, who spoke in a forthcoming book by CNN journalist Jim Sciutto titled “The Return of the Great Powers,” Donald Trump may even have already praised such personalities. He would have said in particular that "Hitler did good things", assuring that the German dictator would have "rebuilt the economy". Donald Trump would also have welcomed Hitler's influence over the Nazi officers whose loyalty he maintained. Not accepting such remarks the general asserted that it is "however quite difficult to believe that Trump missed the Holocaust, and quite difficult to understand how he missed the 400,000 Americans who were killed in the European theater ".
The former marine also argues in this work that Donald Trump would have validated his two counterparts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, calling them “good guys”. Donald Trump would have assured that these authoritarian figures had been pushed to their limits to commit reprehensible acts. So, regarding the war in Ukraine for example, he would have found a justification for Vladimir Putin's action: "If we didn't have NATO, Putin wouldn't do these things."
That being said, among the heads of state, the one of whom the former American president is most admired is Victor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister, in office for 13 years and figure of the far right: “No one is better , smarter or better leader than Viktor Orban. He is the boss and he is a great leader,” he would have defended.
"My theory on why he likes dictators so much is that that's who he is. He was shocked that he didn't have dictatorial powers that would allow him to send American troops or move money around the world. budget framework. And he looked at Putin, Xi and that weirdo from North Korea as people who were just like him in terms of being tough," concluded John Kelly. For General Kelly, with such speeches, it is clear that Donald Trump would not be “fit to lead the United States”.
