Trump wonders why American generals are not like Hitler's
Trump had a tense relationship with the top generals in the US military.
Reuters
Former US President Donald Trump has been angry with the White House chief of staff, because his employees are not the same as those who worked for Adolf Hitler during World War II, according to a new book titled “Barricade: Trump in the White House” written by journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glaser. .
The book stated that Trump told the White House chief of staff, retired Marine General John Kelly, "You generals, why can't you be like German generals?"
Kelly wondered about this question, and asked what Trump meant, to which the former president replied: “I mean the German generals who were in World War II.” Then Kelly answered him, according to what the book recently published in New York said: “Do you know, Mr. President, that they tried He killed Hitler three times, and they almost killed him already.” Trump quickly replied, “No, no, they were blindly loyal to him.”
The book reveals a number of events that illustrate the tense relationship between Trump and nearly most of his top military leaders.
In one of the conversations cited in the book, Trump once told General Kelly that he did not want any wounded veterans to participate in the Independence Day parade, because it was “not a good thing for me,” and Trump spoke of the Bastille Day parade in France in the presence of wounded fighters. Many of whom have lost a limb, Kelly said, "These guys are the heroes," and he didn't have the courage to tell the president that his son Robert was killed in action in Afghanistan.
However, Trump immediately replied: "I don't want them."
On another occasion, according to the book, Trump asked the military to remove the “Black Lives Matter” protests from the White House in June 2020, and this led to General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, writing his resignation, but he did not send it to the president, and the New Yorker magazine received » Excerpts from the resignation text and published.
General Milley had written in his resignation, "It is now clear to me that you do not understand the world order.
And you don't understand why the war is going on, and in fact, you support a lot of the principles we were fighting against, and I can't be a part of that.”
"These were untalented people, and I realize that, so I don't rely on them, I rely on real generals," Trump told The New Yorker.
• In one of the conversations mentioned in the book, Trump told General Kelly that he did not want any wounded veterans to participate in the Independence Day parade.
Follow our latest local and sports news and the latest political and economic developments via Google news