What proud Aryan paints his face orange?

A account of America when Trump defeated FDR in 1932

“Donnie” Trump was a very popular radio entertainer in the late twenties.

When the Depression hit in October of 1929 his popularity as the wisecracking populist host of “You’re fired!’ skyrocketed. Trump’s phrase “You’re fired!” was often directed at the three villains he blamed for the Depression: Wall Street stockbrokers, the bankers and President Herbert Hoover. Trump’s support for the populist Governor of Louisiana, Huey Long, whose motto was “Every man a King!”, made Trump an influential household name. Many politicians in Washington dismissed him as a clown. Justice William Howard Taft, a fan of Will Rogers, called Trump “a Fatty Arbuckle for radical populists.”

Donnie Trump, host of popular radio show “You’re fired!”

At the time 30-million listeners were tuning into Father Coughlin a notorious Nazi apologist to listen to his weekly radio rants blaming the nation’s financial woes on the Jews. When Father Coughlin suggested Donald Trump would make a fine President and that he should run in the 1932 race for the White House against New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt Trump took the bait and announced his candidacy, railing against “The Globalists” and “The Communists” and when Trump was asked about Father Coughlin’s anti-Semitic rants he always declined to rebuke the virulent views of his vocal supporter.

In addition, Trump’s refusal to criticize the newly elected leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, who had promised to make Germany great again, mystified the American press.  During his campaign Trump gave campaign speeches to German American clubs called “Bundts” in which he praised Hitler for Germany’s economic and political rebound from chaos, and he attacked the alliance of the western democracies and the League of Nations as wasteful expenses. Trump began echoing Hitler, promising to make American great again. The phrase caught on and became his campaign slogan.

The Democrats were stunned when Trump defeated Franklin Roosevelt in the close hotly contested race for the Presidency.

In 1933 when President Trump read accounts of the burning of the Reichstag, the German Parliament, he told aides he was impressed that Hitler blamed the suspicious arson on “Communists” and used it to crush dissent and solidify his grip on power. President Trump took note.

In the election year of 1936, when it looked like Roosevelt might unseat the incumbent President because of a vote audit, a mob attacked the Capitol on January 6th, successfully interrupting the formalization of the surprise victory of Roosevelt. Trump blamed the “Globalists”, “The Communists”, the FBI, the “Deep State” and FDR for the attack. Vice President Pence fearing for his life reconvened the Congress with the fake electors and President Trump was reelected to his second term. Roosevelt and numerous Democrats were arrested, the Communist Party was outlawed and vigilante Proud Boys and members of American Bundts across the country lynched many opponents of President Trump branding them all as “Communist Globalists”. Many Synagogues were attacked, and many Jews were gunned down as the American Congress, dominated by members of the new MAGA Republican Party stood back and did nothing.

President Donald J. Trump

Soon after his inauguration the newly re-elected President met at a summit with Hitler in Helsinki, Finland.

President Trump, encouraged by some American voices to criticize Hitler’s rearmament avoided the subject. At Helsinki they met in private for 20-minutes. What they said remains a secret to this day. One can only speculate. President Trump was starstruck by Hitler, his reinvigoration of German nationalism, his repression of dissent, his uniform, and his inspired modeling of his anti-Jewish laws after America’s Jim Crow segregation laws in the American South. After that closed door meeting Trump and Hitler took questions from the international press. Much to everyone’s surprise President Trump criticized the G-men of the American FBI and the American Justice department and praised Hitler’s Gestapo for its loyalty to Hitler. 

When Hitler was asked if Germany had ever directed any disinformation or propaganda campaign at America Hitler dodged the question. “Nein, niemals. Ich respektiere Präsident Trump. Ich liebe das Amerikanische Volk!"

“No, never ever. I respect President Trump. I love the American people.”

After every ensuing summit with Chancellor Hitler the President told the popular pro-German FOX commentator Tucker Carlson he got along well with Hitler and considered him an ally with whom he could make, “fantastic deals.” Hitler was a man he understood and admired. President Trump told Tucker he also admired the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, and that one day, if Congress approved his creation of the Cabinet Office of the Secretary of Propaganda, “like Hitler has in Germany”, that Tucker would be his first choice for the job.

At their summits Hitler always flattered Trump in public while in private meetings with his staff it was said the Fuhrer mocked Trump’s intelligence and skin color. “Welcher stolze Arier bemalt sein Gesicht orange?”

“What proud Aryan paints his face orange?

As Hitler continued to rearm his nation, clearly for war, he read accounts of President Trump’s pro-German statements in the German press that, according to visitors to the Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden, made him gleeful.

By the end of 1936 Hitler was confident he had sufficient support from the American President to test the resolve of the western powers.

Trump at the Munich Summit

The time had come for him to act, to invade and occupy the territories adjacent to the Fatherland. Hitler told the German people these sovereign nations were populated with ethnic Germans and thus rightfully theirs in fiery speech after fiery speech. Hitler ordered his man Himmler to begin planning the fate of Europe’s Jews, inspired and reassured by the writings of American thinkers like the famous industrialist Henry Ford and the radio influencer Father Coughlin who were vocal anti-Semites. Hitler felt a kinship with those American voices and particularly President Trump who had used Hitler’s own favored words like “Vermin” and when Trump used Hitler’s phrase claiming that immigrants “poison the blood of our country”

Hitler was said by Heinrich Himmler to have laughed and to have whispered to him, “Herr Trump. Meine billige Nachahmung.”(Mister Trump. My cheap imitation.)

In the spring of 1936 Hitler ordered German troops into the Rhineland, the de-militarized buffer between Germany and France, that had been created when Germany surrendered and signed the Treaty of Versailles. This action violated the agreement. The western nations complained and took no action. President Trump couldn’t bother to find the Rhineland on a map.

Emboldened, Hitler’s forces massed on the border of western Czechoslovakia, a region known as the Sudetenland. President Trump praised Hitler to his friend on FOX radio, Tucker Carlson, who by now was a well-known Nazi-sympathizer. “Hitler is a genius. Hitler just declared a big portion of the Sudetenland to be German territory. Oh, that’s genius.”

Later that same day at a pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, standing beside Henry Ford and Lindbergh in front of a giant portrait of George Washington President Donald John Trump told the crowd, “They ask me, ‘Is Hitler smart?’ I tell ‘em, ‘Yes, Hitler’s smart.’ And I actually thought he was going to negotiate.” Trump grinned and the crowd laughed. “I said, ‘That’s a hell of a way to negotiate, putting thousands of soldiers on the border.’ Looked to me like a great negotiation move.”

Czechoslovakia fell to another German Blitzkrieg, a massive assault conducted with lightning speed.

President Trump listened to the radio reports late into the night and told his aides about how much he admired Hitler’s rallies held at Nuremberg and wouldn’t a parade like Hitler’s parades make the next Fourth of July “a great show” for the newsreels?

 In 1938, the newly elected Speaker of the Republican House of Representatives was a Christian fundamentalist from Louisiana named Mike Johnson. He became famous for his persistent vituperative condemnation of the Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee when the guilty verdict was overturned nearly twenty years ago, for its “mockery of Christians and its heretical celebration of evolution.” The radical MAGA Republican majority elected to the House that year admired Hitler, believing Nazi propaganda that Hitler was a devout Christian like they were. They were pleased by reports he had rounded up Communists, Jews, and homosexuals, that he had banned books and deported undesirables.  They believed the Nazi propaganda that the shocking reports from Europe of death camps and gas chambers were “fake news” and “lies peddled by Jewish globalists.”

Trump’s MAGA Republican party was a patchwork party of Aryan American isolationists who wanted no part of any conflict in Europe. Particularly on the side of those nations that Hitler was eyeing for conquest. Hitler’s agents in the United States kept the Fuhrer informed about his allies in America. That same year President Trump had graduated his first class of young “patriots” from his “Trump Youth” program modeled after Germany’s “Hitler Youth” program. The President’s private army “The Proud Boys” had grown to resemble Hitler’s “Brown Shirts”, renowned for their loyalty, their red ties and their brutality when it came to cracking down on dissent in the streets of America.

In March Hitler’s forces rolled in Austria. President Trump reacted to this invasion by describing Hitler as “a smart cookie.”

That same year the world was shocked when Hitler and his Nazi thugs violently attacked German Jews, smashed their businesses, and razed their synagogues to the ground across the entire country, from Berlin to Munich. When President Trump was informed of what became known as “Kristallnacht” Trump went on national radio and said, “There were good people on both sides of this issue.”

In September of 1939, President Trump agreed along with Great Britain that Germany’s occupation of the Sudetenland and Austria would not be challenged. This became known as “The Munich Agreement”, which House Speaker Johnson applauded and called “God’s will.”

It was greeted with jubilation in the Eagle’s Nest in Berchtesgaden and in the White House in Washington, D.C. America’s Liberal Democrats called it “Appeasement”, “Treason” and “the abandonment of democracy”.

In an historically unprecedented move three American Generals, General Eisenhower, General MacArthur, and General Patton agreed that Trump’s support for this agreement was appeasement and said so publicly. Patton was succinct. “Trump’s appeasement will only encourage the Nazi paper-hanging son of a bitch to take over the God damned world.”

Trump said all three Generals should face a firing squad for questioning their Commander-in-Chief.

By the end of September Germany invaded Poland. Two days later Great Britain declared war on Germany. With reports pouring in of Polish Jews being rounded up and slaughtered and sent to death camps by rail, FOX radio’s Bill O’Reilly questioned President Trump about Hitler being a "killer," the President said, "We've got a lot of killers... you think our country's so innocent?"

In 1940 Hitler’s Panzers broke through the Maginot Line and his infantry marched triumphantly into Paris. Trump’s only reaction was to suggest if he had built France’s “wall’ France would not have fallen. Within hours the French and British forces had retreated to the Atlantic, beaten back to Dunkirk from where they were dramatically evacuated by British ships and civilian fisherman. President Trump called the humiliated French and British forces, “losers.”

When France was lost to Hitler’s war machine the Democratic Senate Majority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer delivered a speech pleading for America to come to the aid of Great Britain, calling America “The Arsenal of Democracy.”

The MAGA Republicans in the House, opposed to war with Germany, slapped sanctions on the sale of German sausages while moving to cut off all aid to Great Britain.

With France and most of Europe now under control of the Third Reich, Hitler ordered the construction of a vast wall of coastal defenses that stretched from the north of Denmark to southern France. This wall of strong defensive positions transformed the conquered continent into what Hitler called “Fortress Europe”.

At a campaign rally President Trump said, “They say, ‘Trump said Hitler’s smart.’ I did say that. I mean he’s taken over a country for two dollars’ worth of sanctions. What’s a sausage cost these days? I’d say that’s pretty smart. He’s taking over a country – really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and he just walked right in.”

In private Trump longed for his own “Fortress America”. Only the Democratic Senate stood in his way. Outside his White House his MAGA supporters marched in opposition to support for Great Britain, which was now in Hitler’s sights. President Trump’s Proud Boys beat up and shot anti-Nazi protestors. Trump called pro-democracy candidates “Marxist globalists” who were happy to sell out this country to the “haters” and the “warmongers”.  Hitler’s propaganda machine was raining lies on the west.

The Presidential campaign of 1940 could not have come at a more perilous time for the very few western democracies left standing up to Hitler’s overwhelming Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, and V-2 rockets. 

President Trump’s only campaign rally mention of the events in Europe was to make a promise to build a “Fortress America” wall to keep out the “vermin” and to keep the United States out of Europe’s war. In the Spring of 1940, the Democrats selected Senator Democrat Joe Biden to be their pro-democracy candidate.

While campaigning across America by rail President Trump made an enigmatic campaign promise.  Only he could “end the war in Europe in 24 hours”. Without any further explanation. Some speculated this referred to a deal to get the Congress to agree to build his wall and the reject all aid to Great Britain which was about to face Hitler’s Luftwaffe and V-2 rockets.

Trump was pleased to hear Hitler had praised him at a Nuremberg rally as a great leader who had mastered “die Kunst des Deals” (the art of the deal). Adding, to thunderous cheers, “Together with President Trump and the unconditional surrender of Great Britain we could end this war in 24-hours.”

Schumer and the Senate Democrats put forward a bill authorizing a program called “Lend lease” which would “loan” Great Britain ammunition, tanks, airplanes, trucks, food, and other raw materials.

Candidate Biden pointed out that Great Britain stood alone against the fascist forces of Nazi Germany and warned the same forces which had secured mainland Europe in its authoritarian grip were at play here in America.

In the middle of the bitterly contested Presidential campaign, Hitler took advantage of the political division and chaos, launching a massive air assault against Great Britain that began with the Luftwaffe relentlessly bombing civilian populations with fleets of Stuka bombers and hundreds of V-2 rockets, mercilessly killing, in a short time, forty thousand civilians.

Because it was an election year President Trump was firm in his opposition to aiding Great Britain for one transparent reason. To spite the Liberal Democrats who had backed military aid to Great Britain. The House MAGA Republicans, as loyal to Trump as Trump was to Hitler, refused to move on the Democrat’s Lend Lease proposal.

For the sake of political theater they voted for sanctions slapping the wrists of Hitler, Goebbels and his top Generals, Rommel, Goering, and Jodl. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene proposed a ban on the import of German Strudel, a move that was roundly mocked by radio comedian Jack Benny, who the Representative from Georgia pointed out, “is a Jew. And we know who they’re loyal to, that Governor from Jew York, FDR.”

Before Trump’s Presidency such vile anti-Semitic public statements were unthinkable. Now they were commonplace.

As German bombs rained on London, Prime Minister Churchill spoke to the remnants of the free world from the House of Commons.

Few Americans heard Churchill’s address and instead believed the pro-Nazi lies that England was “corrupt” and had wasted millions of dollars of American aid in the past.

Propaganda Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels, the source of this campaign of lies, had been sending agents, bribes, and pro-Nazi materials to the United States ever since 1933. For years, his Pro-Nazi American contacts had been his bagmen, delivering bribes to elected American officials. For years they had smuggled Nazi propaganda to sympathetic American publishers to distribute throughout the country, from Wisconsin to California to Idaho. Additionally, they had found a variety of covert ways to deliver funds to pro-Naz groups like the “Silver Shirts” who proudly wore red armbands displaying the stark black swastika on a pure white circle on their silver shirt sleeves. They ranged up and down the west coast from California to Washington state. Goebbels’ reach even extended to the treasonous pro-Nazi American saboteurs in the National Guard armories of New Jersey just waiting for Herr Hitlers signal in the event that President Trump ever lost power to a pro-democracy leader.

American Nazis rally at Madison Square Garden

Hitler’s Fifth column would be ready.

The American so-called “mainstream" Press had been atrophying for years, replaced in market after market and small town after small town by Pro-Trump news outlets and radio networks that were subsidized by wealthy plutocrats who would do anything to keep from paying taxes and that “anything” included keeping Democrats from power, even if that meant abandoning a democratic nation under attack or ensuring a pro-Nazi President would remain in power for as many terms as he could.

Beleaguered Great Britain was a nation in danger of being completely abandoned to Hitler’s brutal intentions by the Republicans governing the United States of America.

Their leader, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, spoke eloquently to his people in a national address from House of Commons about the perilous moment they faced. “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy.”

President Trump listened to Churchill’s speech on his old Philco cathedral radio in the Oval Office mid-day with the drapes drawn, his face dimly lit by the glowing tubes behind the speakers. It was the same model of common radio that millions of Americans relied on to listen to Trump’s “Fireside chats”.

Trump knew his kindred spirit in Berlin was listening at the same time.

Churchill continued. “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory despite all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

Trump cursed Churchill and turned the radio dial and there he was again.

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and -”

President Trump, disgusted and irritated, spun the radio dial until it stopped upon a vocalist singing the maddening theme song of the Biden campaign.

“There'll be bluebirds over
The white cliffs of Dover
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.

There'll be love and laughter
And peace ever after
Tomorrow, when the world is free…“

Enraged, a petulant President Trump threw the radio to the floor smashing it into pieces.

At the same moment, across the Atlantic, as night fell on England, squadrons of Spitfires rose into the smoke filled skies to challenge Hitler’s Luftwaffe roaring through the darkness spilling death and destruction from their steel bellies over the burning nation.

Again, and again Churchill appealed to the United States for assistance, citing the bravery of the pilots dying daily in the skies above them in what he called “The Battle of Britain.”

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson

Speaker Mike Johnson was unmoved.

Johnson viewed democracies as chaotic, decadent, diverse, degenerate, open societies that opposed religious freedom, seedbeds of liberalism that ran roughshod over traditional conservative values. Places where mothers were free to murder their babies, publishers published filth and sodomites ruled.

When a handful of reporters like Willian Shirer, who reported on Hitler’s rise to power from Berlin, and Eric Severeid, who had reported on the rise of the pro-Nazi movement in America, and Edward R. Murrow, who bravely reported from London during the blitz, criticized Trump as cowering before Hitler,  a dictator they described as evil, the President was infuriated by their gall, bellowing during a national radio address, “These men. This Press. The Press is the enemy of the people.”

The next day, from Mar-a-Lago, Trump, ignorant of how Amendments can be changed, only by the ratification of superseding Amendments, called on Congress to grant him the power to, “Get rid of the First Amendment. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? The Press is all fake news. They hate America. They use free speech to spread lies and hate! You don’t have this problem in Germany!  But we do here! And it’s a terrible problem. So many lies. They tell so many lies!”

When Hitler heard word of Trump’s remarks about the American Press back in Berlin he laughed and told Propaganda Minister Goebbels, “President Trump is right. We don’t have that problem here in Germany. Here we push them off balconies or drag the swine into alleys and shoot them in the head or round them up and gas them.”

As bombs fell on homes, schools and churches in Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Edinburgh and London the MAGA Republicans held firm to their resolve to do nothing until after the election.

When asked about their inaction many shrugged and grinned, saying, “We’re just following President Trump’s orders.”

As the British people trembled in their underground shelters, Prime Minister Churchill persisted with his daily appeals to the Congress of the United States. Meanwhile the President had other items on his crowded agenda.

Yesterday it was reported President Trump’s newly appointed Minister of Propaganda, Tucker Carlson, had flown to Berlin.

Some speculated it was to congratulate the Führer on behalf of the American President, on his coming defeat and conquest of Great Britain. Others speculated Carlson was there to interview Hitler and to inform the Führer that President Trump “who was looking forward to a fourth term”, was offering a deal, a deal to sign a historic pact agreeing to a New World Order. At the same hour Carlson landed in Germany polling by CBS radio revealed that Senator Biden, who supported funding the Democrat’s robust military aid package in defense of Great Britain, was pulling ahead of the incumbent President. With England likely to fall under the iron boot of the Nazis within months, the American Presidential Election was only days away.

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