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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump had been president during WWII
Is there any doubt he would have entered the US in the war in the side of Germany?
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If Trump had been president during WWII (Original Post)
BainsBane
Aug 2017
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,724 posts)1. More likely he'd have kept the US out of it completely.
The Nazi sympathizers at the time were intensely isolationist.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)2. Yes, that's a good point.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)3. Yep. We would be goose stepping on the village green about now.
Sad that vile creature is our President, makes us look like heartless, clueless fools for letting that happen.
Catmusicfan
(816 posts)4. Why give me nightmares before bed....
They basically wrote a fiction book about it about 10 years ago...and doesn't Amazon Prime have an original series on it...
DFW
(54,403 posts)5. Absolutely
Hitler considered himself superior to us, too. It wouldn't have been obvious either way, I think. For that matter, it took Pearl Harbor to get us into the war, even though the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese were well underway by then.
pansypoo53219
(20,978 posts)6. instead of german, we would be speaking japanese or russian.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)7. Why not German?
Russia was allied with the US and U.K. during the war.