If Trump had been in charge during World War II, this column would be in German
The 75th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany got me thinking about how World War II might have turned out if President Franklin D. Roosevelt had acted like President Donald J. Trump.
Picture the scene a few months after Pearl Harbor. The first U.S. troops have arrived in England, and the Doolittle raiders have bombed Tokyo. But even though the war has just begun, the Trumpified FDR is already losing interest. One day he says the war is already won; the next day that we will just have to accept the occupation of France because thats the way life is. He speculates that mobilization might be unnecessary if we can develop a death ray straight out of a Buck Rogers comic strip. He complains that rationing and curfews are very unpopular and will have to end soon. He tells the governors that if they want to keep on fighting, they will have to take charge of manufacturing ships, tanks and aircraft. Trumpy FDR prefers to hold mass rallies to berate his predecessor, Herbert Hoover. He even suggests that Hoover belongs in jail along with the leading Republican congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish.
In reality, of course, Roosevelt focused with single-minded devotion on defeating the United States enemies until the day of his death. Old political battles and agendas fell by the wayside. Dr. New Deal had been transformed, he explained, into Dr. Win-the-War.
Trump, by contrast, cannot focus on a single subject for the length of a paragraph. So it is no surprise that he has already gotten bored with a war against the coronavirus that isnt going his way. He is taking his cues not from FDR but from Sen. George Aiken, the Vermont Republican whose plan for the Vietnam War was summed up as declare victory and get out. In Trumps case, that means getting Americans out of the home whether its safe to do so or not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/15/if-trump-had-been-charge-during-world-war-ii-this-column-would-be-german/
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)We would have only fought against Japan is my wild speculation.
Maybe even assisted in Hitler's invasion of the commies in Russia.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)Uh, I mean buddy.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)And it's in the Washington Post no less! The Jackass-in-chief is sure to hear about this editorial!
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)The only Drumpf/Trump family members to serve in WWll would have been on the cliffs above the Normandy beaches.