The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[Deesse23]

It seems to me that the Trump-Mussolini comparison is a fair one. Mussolini was braggadocious, fake man-of-the-people, narcissistic who turned out did not live to his promises: he did not keep trains on time and Italian economy stagnated so much so that Italians were fed up with him and fired him, but then Hitler sent his army to forcefully reinstate him which angered Italians even more, and he ended as he ended.

I think Mussolini would be enraged about your comparison, rightly so if i may add.

Yes, as a leader of Italy, particularly in wartimes, he pretty much failed and made a pretty clown-ish impression during his speeches, particularly his facial expressions and body language.  He was clearly full of himself and overestimated himself to the point that he finally got overthrown, re-instated, caught again and hanged, instead of trying to get away.

HOWEVER

when we look at his personal background, career accomplishments, from youth to adulthood, Trump cant hold a candle to him.

Mussolini was born into a rather middle class, bourgeois family. Trump was born with a silver spoon.
Mussoli seems to have been a good student (after having attacked someone with a knife tho) and at age 18 he acquired a "diploma" which allowed him to teach in elementary school. Trump probably cant even spell the word "elementary school" to this day.
Mussolini at times worked as a construction worker. Trump didnt work a single day in his life, until now, and he never will.
Mussolini actually had political positions. He had political ideas, as absurd or wrong you may perceive them. He started as an anti-fascist. He learned about Marxism etc. Trump has none of that. I am not even confident Trump had any idea of his own ever.
Mussolini served his time as a conscript, and later entered service in WWI for two years. He fought in the famous Isonzo battles while writing articles for his newspaper in his free time. He was seriously wounded in 1917. Trump had bone spurs and writes nonsense on Truth Social in his spare time.
In 1907 Mussolini passed an exam at university Bologna (oldest university in Europe!), allowing him to be a French teacher. He also did one semester at Lausanne.
In the 1910s he became an accomplished journalist.

Yes, Mussolini was overly ambitious and only interested in himself and his own progress, etc.. He changed from far left to far right. He maybe didnt have a deep enough understanding about politics and ideologies
but
If you think Mussolini was a clown, then Trump is the fucking president (pun intended) of Clownistan!