According to a forthcoming book by a New York Times writer and a New Yorker magazine writer,
Donald Trump at one point actually lashed out at his chief of staff general John
Kelly, because Trump believed that the generals in the US military needed to be more loyal to him,
much like Nazi generals were loyal to Hitler. This, according to the book is
what Trump said, you f'ing generals, why can't you be like the German generals?
And then when Kelly countered that Nazi generals had tried to kill their leader,
the former president insisted that they had been unflaggingly loyal.
So Trump wanted the military to be more like Nazis is, is basically what he's, what he's
asking for. And of course, this is terrifying, not just because he wanted them to be like Nazis, but
because what he wanted was loyalty to him. He wanted the military, he wanted these generals,
he wanted everybody in that body, the United States military to show loyalty to Trump instead
of their unflagging loyalty to the United States of America. You see, that's what the military is,
folks. I, I don't know if I even need to say that. I think we all understand it. The military is not
in fact, loyal to the president of the United States. They are loyal to the office. They are
loyal to the constitution. They're loyal to the rule of law. Now, obviously throughout American
history, we have seen exceptions to this most recently, of course, with the Bush administration,
but they're not loyal to any one human being. Yes, the president of the United States is the
commander in chief of the armed forces. But again, the military's loyal to the office,
not to the man or woman serving in that office. Here's where things get even more interesting.
This excerpt was published, not because of the John Kelly claim,
but actually because of general Mark Milley. That's what the story was actually about and
the excerpt that was posted because Milley was growing increasingly concerned that Donald Trump
wanted the military to be more like Nazis. And this of course was long after John Kelly had
already resigned from office. But Milley in the summer of 2020 abruptly resigned,
you may remember, after it became clear that Donald Trump was in fact trying to turn the
military into Nazis who were loyal to him and Milley claims, again in this excerpt, that he
was worried that Trump might use the military to somehow try to retain power or to possibly even,
you know, stage an attack here in the United States. Milley was concerned about this.
And of course his fears almost came to fruition with the plans that we now know of,
of Donald Trump thinking about using the military or the DOJ to, you know, seize voting machines.
Go out there and declare martial law, maybe. So, yeah, Milley's fears were well founded and we're
finding, unfortunately, more truth to them as the January 6th committee continues their work. So
Trump wanted the military to be like Nazis. He wanted them loyal to him, not to the United States
of America, not to the constitution, but to him, the man, individual. So yeah, I think it's rather
important that we do whatever we can to make sure that man doesn't ever end up in a position
where he is in charge of that military ever again, because now that we know what he wants in that top
military brass, it's pretty obvious that he'll do whatever it takes to make that become a reality.