Does Donald Trump Really Admire Adolf Hitler?

Yes, according to this person's detailed account of his wife meeting Trump in person

According to Donald Trump's first wife Ivana, her husband kept a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches by his bedside. During his pre-political days as a celebrity businessman, Donald Trump kept that detail about studying Hitler mostly on the downlow with one rare exception.

Marty Taylor is the executive director of NewBlueUSA and he recently shared this anecdote on Twitter/X about his wife's first and only meeting with Donald Trump and his second wife, Marla Maples, in person in the 1990s (long before he made his first run for president on the Reform Party ticket in 2000). He mentioned in one of the replies that he had previously posted this story on Twitter/X in 2016 and 2020. He decided to repost it again since Donald Trump is on the verge of getting the Republican Party's nomination for president.

The one interesting thing about this account is that Trump’s second wife Marla seemed to have corraborated first wife Ivana's claim about Trump keeping a copy of Hitler’s speeches by his bedside. I'm only reprinting it here for anyone who wants another reason why Donald Trump should not be reelected president. (You can read the original here.)

“This editorial is solely my own opinion. I alone am responsible for the content.”

A personal story about Donald Trump, Marla Maples. The “Carpet King” Bob Shaw, Adolf Hitler and my wife Martha.

My wife is a computer engineer. She sets up and runs large computer servers for companies and the government. She has worked all over the country from Connecticut, where she set up servers used to support our nuclear submarine fleet, to Dallas, where she worked for Ross Perot at EDS and many other large corporations. In 1996 Martha was working at Shaw Industries Group in Dalton, Georgia. Shaw is the largest carpet manufacturer in the world. Dalton, Georgia is dominated by the carpet and flooring industry. The CEO was Bob Shaw. His family built the carpet business and he was very influential in Georgia Republican politics.

In 1996, Donald Trump has been married to Dalton native Marla Maples since 1993. Since Marla had family in Dalton, she and Trump visited often. They were seen around town many times. But on this particular visit, Trump was meeting with Bob Shaw for dinner. Shaw invited some of his employees to the dinner at the popular Dalton restaurant The Depot. My wife Martha was one of those employees invited to have dinner with Shaw, Marla Maples and Donald Trump. It was a dinner she will never forget.

Although my wife and I have only been married for a few years, we have known each other since we were in High School in Tennessee. We were always great friends. And always kept in touch. Martha shared the details of this story to me many time before Trump was President or even being mentioned as a candidate. I have heard the story for almost 30 years and the story never changes. What happened that night at The Depot is a real eye opener and tells us a lot about who and what Donald Trump is and always has been.

As the Trumps ate dinner that night in Dalton, Georgia with “The Carpet King” Bob Shaw and his semi-interested employees who were bored by the bragging and buffoonish action towards the staff by Donald Trump, it was obvious that even Bob Shaw was not interested in Trump’s incessant bragging about one building or another. So Trump decided to change the conversation to his political ideas and where his political theory came from. The dinner was about to take a dark turn that no one in attendance would ever forget.

The first words that got the group’s attention was when Trump said, “Hitler did some great things and had some great ideas. He just didn’t get to finish what he started.” The table grew quiet as Shaw and his startled employees threw furtive glance at each other, all were hoping that maybe Trump was drunk or kidding. But his glass only held Diet Coke and the look on Donald Trump’s face was deadly serious. He was not kidding. This is what Trump believed then and believes now.

As Trump continued to regale the now silent table with his admiration of Adolf Hitler and how he thinks America needs to be more like Nazi Germany, his wife Marla tried to mitigate the words that were coming out of her husband’s mouth. “Oh Donald, you don’t believe all that. Stop it.” Marla turned to Bob Shaw and said “Donald keeps that book by Hitler beside our bed, it’s the only thing he ever reads. And he watches tapes of Hitler’s speeches. But I don’t think he believes all of that stuff.” “Yes I do, Marla” Trump said as he waved his hands to dismiss his wife. “And America would be a lot better if we had someone like Hitler in charge.”

As the evening went on Trump continued with his lavish praise for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. When anyone tried to disagree or question him they were shut down by the loud and obnoxious Donald Trump. When the Shaw employees finally left The Depot that night, they were shocked and disgusted by Trump’s words. My wife’s coworker Marianne was especially upset as she was Jewish and my wife also has Jewish heritage. But the conversation ended in the parking lot at The Depot that night with Martha and Marianne ensuring each other that “at least Donald Trump will never be President.” Boy were they wrong.

I have heard this story for years. My wife Martha and other Shaw employees have all verified the facts and conversation at The Depot in Dalton that night. Just yesterday Donald Trump said that immigrants are “not human.” This followed Trump claiming that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” and calling immigrants “vermin.” These statements are taken from Hitler’s Mein Kampf and his own words. There can be no doubt that Donald is emulating the words and deeds from that dark time in world history. We must never allow this in America.

Donald Trump decided a long time ago that America should be more like Nazi Germany. His goal is in sight. The only thing standing in Donald Trump’s way is you and I. We will never let the dark vision of Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler become reality in the United States. We will stand against Donald Trump and all who support him. We will not bend nor break. America‘s future depends on it.

In a subsequent tweet Marty Taylor mentioned that on the next day Bob Shaw had personally apologized to all of the employees who were at that dinner.

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