I think Trump can wear a giant swastika necklace much like Flavor Flav and get on stage praising Hitler today and his numbers won't change. His MAGA crowd will likely like him even more if he did that. Discussing whether if Trump read Hitler's writings or not seems kinda pointless right now.

tbf, I wouldn't be surprised if he never has actually read an entire book. You don't necessarily need to have read an original source to parrot some of its contents, there's plenty of other ways.

We all know how this is going to go:

1. I don't quote Hitler, I'm not a Nazi
2. [Sarcastically] Well, I guess I'm Hitler now.
3. But you know, Hitler had some good ideas, he was a strong leader
4. Look, if Nazis want to support me, that's their business, I'm not a Nazi, I just think Hitler was right about a lot of stuff...

Meanwhile, in the small group of black and jewish people who support him, a few are going to trickle away. A few are going to jump on the sarcastic bandwagon and pretend that they support him because he's a Nazi too. When he starts getting serious about liking Hitler, a few more will drift away, but others will just double down.

I know kampfs. Love a good kampf. I know people, hose people know kampfs and they say "Mister President", they still call me "Mister President" because I'm still the president. They know presidents, and they know me and they know I'm the president because they're smart. Smart people. Good people. They know presidents and they know kampfs and they say, "The president needs a kampf. Gotta have a good kampf or you're not even really the president." Sleepy Joe Biden doesn't have a kampf, now look at what's happening. Gas is $25/gallon, there are sticks in my yard, they made it illegal to be an American. They said, "You can't do that here, that's American."

In Germany "Mein Kampf" in its unedited, uncommented form is banned and maybe that's not a bad idea. Prevents dimwits from reading it unfiltered and ... become president with a twisted world view heavily influenced and inspired by one of the worst dictators and murderers in humans history.

He couldn't be sure, of course, because he was unable to read the cover.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Donald Trump's past comments about Mein Kampf have resurfaced after he referenced the book penned by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in a speech in Iowa last night.

Trump has earned criticism for his speech in the Hawkeye State after he said immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our county" during a rally in New Hampshire over the weekend.

The Biden-Harris campaign accused Trump of "parroting Hitler" in his speeches, while a resurfaced interview reveals the moment the former president talked about being given Mein Kampf by a friend.

The article said: "Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

Referring to this, Trump is quoted as saying: "It was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of Mein Kampf, and he's a Jew."

In response, Davis is quoted as saying he did give his friend a book about Hitler, but that it was actually My New Order A Collection of Speeches not Mein Kampf.

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"don't call everything Nazis.." "damn leftists calling it all fascism"

Yeah... We're here now. Thanks for tone policing the good guys for eight fucking years

This is how you cover Trump

We can be confident that Trump never actually read it, whichever book it was. He probably thinks Mein Kampf is about a guy going camping.