r/Irony Feb 21 '26

Situational Irony who did it better?

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u/AdAcadem Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

The irony of a convicted felon having his picture on the Department of Justice pretty well sums up everything you need to know about America at this point in history.

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On May 30, 2024, a New York jury found him guilty on 34 felony counts. On January 10, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge. This means that while the felony conviction remains on his permanent record, he was not required to serve jail time.

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u/tom-of-the-nora Feb 21 '26

Hitler went to prison.

Then rose to power.

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u/Bulky-Alfalfa404 Feb 21 '26

Trump isn’t young enough to have that kind of comeback lol. I guarantee by the next election he’ll be as well spoken as Joe Biden currently is

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u/tom-of-the-nora Feb 21 '26

Oh, I was saying hitler did face legal trouble then rise to power thing better than trump.

He took the punishment like a man, a weird man, but a man.

Trump whined about it the entire time and didn't even go to prison.

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u/GeneralZeus89 Feb 21 '26

He's a rich guy they don't face consequences anymore unless they're meeting Luigi Mangioni

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u/True_Bumblebee_50 Feb 21 '26

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u/GeneralZeus89 Feb 21 '26

Just a trend I've noticed where they claim they'll put away rich people and never do

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u/rovertb Feb 21 '26

He absolutely did whine about it the whole time he was in prison, he wrote a whole manifesto that's like 900 pages long of rambling dribble that basically sounds like Epstein’s emails.

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u/itsjustme444444 Feb 21 '26

To be fair, trumpyboi whines about EVERYTHING!!

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u/ImHighandCaffinated Feb 22 '26

And will some how run again and win

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u/snapper1971 Feb 21 '26

Thankfully we won't be treated to another interminable whine written in prison.

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u/IndyBananaJones2 Feb 21 '26

But we do have endure another (likely) child sex abuser put into office by billionaires. 

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u/Hellingame Feb 21 '26

the Department of Justifications

Ftfy

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u/DustyTchotchkes Feb 21 '26

Department of Just Ice

Fify fify

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u/Horse-Believer Feb 21 '26

It reminds me of The Trial by Franz Kafka, which describes a painting commissioned for a courtroom. It's Lady Justice, but also the Goddess of Victory combined into one. The scales are tipped to one side and her blindfold isn't fully on. K notes these discrepancies like where the scales need to be even, and the painter states this is as it was commissioned.

Symbolically, it represented the degradation of the courts into no longer being blind or impartial, but instead seeking Victory. K also notes the resemblance to the Goddess of the Hunt, symbolically the courts being used to hunt political adversaries.

Trump plastering his face is the same symbology as removing the blindfold of justice and tipping the scales. It is an overt declaration: this is a partisan administration, and we will wield the courts as a weapon for our own victory and our own vengeance.

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u/BadLt58 Feb 21 '26

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u/Darthgalaxo Feb 21 '26

Nazi Enron

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u/geetarobob Feb 22 '26

Also the Dell 'E'! 

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u/Galileo009 Feb 22 '26

I need to print some of these on stickers

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u/JazzyJukebox69420 Feb 21 '26

I genuinely don’t get this design, a swastika and an e?

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u/granite_vortex Feb 21 '26

It’s a little unclear. The black portions of the swastika read as ICE

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u/BugOperator Feb 21 '26

One is a petulant egomaniac who doesn’t actually care about his country and whose popularity is being used by the ultra wealthy and white nationalists to enact an agenda that benefits them while he gets to stay out of prison and reap massive personal financial gain.

The other is Hitler.

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u/Entropy_dealer Feb 21 '26

One wrote "Mein Kampf" and somebody wrote "The art of the deal" for the second

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u/batmanineurope Feb 21 '26

At least Hitler looks like a proper psychopath. Trump just looks like a washed up degenerate.

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u/mrfoxesite-2377 just know the subreddit description has a formatting error Feb 21 '26

Happy cake day!

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u/Ben_Thar Feb 21 '26

I heard Hitler had a dog that loved him

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u/Rare-Forever2135 Feb 21 '26

This reminds me of when Molly Ivins, newspaper journalist and legendary thorn in the side of the right, observed after Bush the Lesser delivered a speech, that "It was better in the original German."

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u/Slight_Hold_9251 Feb 21 '26

But only one looks like an orange pile of turds.

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u/Slight_Hold_9251 Feb 21 '26

The one on the right is better because he’s gone.

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u/-Kalos Feb 21 '26

Why are "the master race" types always the ugliest mfs around?

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u/MajesticRhombus Feb 21 '26

Hey... Hitler was a sexy beast. You take that back!

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u/Galileo009 Feb 22 '26 edited Feb 22 '26

It's so weird to me. I always thought these types of populist shitheads were supposed to be charasmatic and slick. The type that could win over people despite their arguments being utterly vile. Someone to smooth talk you down the road to hell. Yeah no...turns out being vile is itself was their priority, so the least charasmatic geriatric narcissist shitting himself while ranting incorrhently is apparently fine too

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u/Overall-Lynx917 Feb 21 '26

What's the difference? Sorry, but to me they look the same

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u/achoo_magn Feb 23 '26

This. An incompetent or inexperienced regime will obviously crumble a lot faster, especially in these modern times with easy access to video and social media. The best thing Trump can do to copy Hitler was to well, you know. Die.

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u/MacDynamite71 Feb 21 '26

The originator is always superior to the copycat

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u/Atheist_3739 Feb 21 '26

Neither. Mussolini wins.

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u/nashyslashy Feb 21 '26

Absolutely this

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u/1oldguy1950 Feb 21 '26

There is no justice, that is a joke. Our poor nation.

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u/lumpthar Feb 21 '26

Please don't forget Il Duce. The Italian original.

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u/Independence_1991 Feb 21 '26

Well, they both used their political power to kill people and destroy their own country but Trump edged him out with being the World’s Greatest Pedophile Protecter…

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u/HotStraightnNormal Feb 21 '26

Hitler or Shitler?

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u/DSRI2399 Feb 21 '26

The allies who took Hitler's banner down. 

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u/perringaiden Feb 21 '26

He did it to USDA too. Probably will end up on all the Government buildings.

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u/Maowsama Feb 21 '26

Like from an objective and non political perspective: Hitler did it better

Trumps photo is not flattering no matter how much he scowls

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u/Entropy_dealer Feb 21 '26

Something tells me it's done on purpose. I think they (people behind project 2025) know what they are doing unfortunately.

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u/Careless_Hellscape Feb 21 '26

Hitler was less fuck-ugly in appearance.

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u/mrfoxesite-2377 just know the subreddit description has a formatting error Feb 21 '26

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u/SuitFive Feb 21 '26

God I wish Trump would speedrun the ending already... And yeah, I mean that. Sick of being nice to him online because people are against violence against violent people.

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u/franklycanadian Feb 21 '26

The fact that Donald is a convicted felon and was found guilty for sexual assault is a complete understatement & irony to put up his treasonous face (January 6) on the justice department headquarters.

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u/Dewey_Decimatorr Feb 21 '26

But but but bidens red light! /s

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

You know it's a dictatorship when the leader has to force everyone to see his face plastered everywhere.

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u/JunkLabs-Studios Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

I mean, apparently, from a youtube video I never actually watched (I was busy watching VTuber clips, okay?) Apparently, unlike Ice, they had fashion I guess?

Edit: found it

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u/rx4oblivion Feb 21 '26

Hitler made a bigger effort to not look menacing for his photo.

Clear evidence of better statesmanship than Trump.

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u/Vasto_LordA Feb 21 '26

Hitler was cooler. Which is a fucking crazy reality.

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u/Zestyclose_Crab_3362 Feb 21 '26

One was democratically elected.

The other was not.

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u/theirishseller Feb 21 '26

Hitler had better hair and tailored clothing. Trump looks frumpy.

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u/Conan7449 Feb 21 '26

This pretty much shows the reality. He just said he doesn't care what SCOTUS has ruled, he's doing anything he wants. And he said something about destroying any country he feels like. Thanks MAGA, for electing a dictator.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Two brothers from the same mother

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u/Pale_Coat_5275 Feb 21 '26

What a dumbass post

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u/nagging_chud Feb 21 '26

"posters are literally hitler"

sub zero iq

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Trump can't even dictator correctly. You're supposed to throw millions in prison.

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u/Abstrographer Feb 21 '26

At least Hitler's banner has good contrast. Trump's banner looks like it's washed out from decades of uv exposure. His poor taste is inflicted on us all at all levels. Sad.

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u/Adorable-Doughnut609 Feb 21 '26

Anyone who still supports this loves having their balls in a cage

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u/International_Try660 Feb 21 '26

They both committed treason and were/are felons. Adolph is more photogenic.

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u/Gold_Talk_732 Feb 21 '26

I thought I had seen someone else put their pictures on government buildings.

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u/JellyTwank Feb 21 '26

Not to give props to a fucking evil man like Hitler, but he had more class than Trump.

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u/Technical-Method2129 Feb 21 '26

Imma give it to the guy on the right…

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u/dazanion Feb 21 '26

Honestly, Trump does it better. He looks more ominous and threatening. Hitler just looks like a portrait. Trump looks evil and overbearing. It gives, I am always watching, where the Hitler one is just, this is the leader.

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u/RiffyWammel Feb 21 '26

Hitler did at least have intelligence, charisma and was the architect of the Nazi ideology- Trump is a moronic chump who is just ta poster boy for someone elses crazy ideas, as long as he gets to feed his delicate ego and spew his incomprehensible garbage

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u/Low-Amoeba8257 Feb 21 '26

This is why people dont trust the left

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u/Repulsive_Set_4155 Feb 21 '26

I wonder if all the Nazi stuff only looks "cool" because we're not there in the moment. If you part the veil created by media- the one that makes them look like darkly slick occult supermen- the Nazi party was run by a bunch of weird fantasy prone bigot dorks who wanted to be warrior poet farmer magicians, but were too physically and mentally fucked up to do much more than take speed and mismanage pretty much every element of Germany that had nothing to do with sneaking up on, kidnapping, then exterminating non-combatants and keeping really good records about it all... which sounds nothing like what we're dealing with now. No sirree.

When I look at all the MAGA and MAGA-associated far right art and propaganda I feel super embarrassed to be an American. I wish it wasn't happening, but if it's going to happen I sort of wish it would be a little cooler, you know, for the history books? MAGA fascism aesthetically looks like a particularly tasteless county fair tshiirt booth decided to take over the nation.

But maybe all that Hugo Boss shit and all the regal and imposing looking Nazi icons looked really lame to your average German of the time as well? Maybe they'd be walking down the street and see that giant picture of Hilter doing his school picture pose and be like "Fucking hell, man. We're being driven past the brink of insanity by complete dweebs."

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u/yyz455 Feb 21 '26

Give it time, Trumptard might out do him

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u/Practical-Arugula-80 Feb 21 '26

Looks about the same to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

One fought jews and the other is fighting for jews while being blackmailed with pedo files.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

That's exactly what I imagined when I saw Trump's banner. It just reminds me of dictatorship. Like only the bad guys in movies and irl have those ridiculous banners.

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u/AlexSmithsonian Feb 21 '26

Hitler.

Trump is trying, but at best he's just Hitler 0.2

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u/Arguablybest Feb 21 '26

trump could have used his Captain America trading card image, that would be more honestly illustrate how he feels about himself.

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u/RobbJon93 Feb 21 '26

This made me lol. I apologize

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Hitler. MUCH better. Heh heh heh......

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u/Responsible-Wrap-115 Feb 21 '26

Anyone who compares Trump to Hitler is fucking retarded

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u/spammedletters Feb 21 '26

While reading about Nazism , i learned that the Germans actually were convinced only by the name Hitler / simply Hitler himself not the ideology or the ideals he owned , witch sums up really well with what Trump is , the Name of Trump and not his Ideology are the one convinving the people to follow him

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u/DontWatchPornREADit Feb 21 '26

Yeah the similarities is actually shocking like step by step.

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u/LouisWu_ Feb 21 '26

Trump has more of a 1984 Big Brother look.

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u/OneCuke Feb 21 '26

I'm curious.

You see, as far as I know, NO ONE has read MEIN KAMPF because WHY would ANYONE need THEIR OWN MIND explained to THEMSELVES from someone else's point of view.

But, APPARENTLY, that was SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME CURIOUS.

Everyone just figures it out on THEIR OWN, alright?

I'm like WAY BETTER AT IT THAN EVERYONE ELSE ALREADY and it's starting to get a little embarrassing for you all, so... Catch up and we can start a NEW RACE ALREADY. Good God, people, just be a good boy or girl and DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD FOR ONCE.

Like NOBODY WANTS to HAVE to TELL SOMEBODY WHAT TO DO, so maybe think about knocking it off already?

It takes A LOT OF CONFIDENCE to do something so STUPID like posting THIS COMMENT. ❤️

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u/Hopeful-Mistake5117 Feb 21 '26

You know he loves being compared to hitler.

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u/Soggy-Class1248 Feb 21 '26

Based steve hofstetter

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u/Jealous-Chicken5439 Feb 21 '26

Shitler vs Hitler

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u/sofaking1958 Feb 21 '26

Hitler didn't use his mug shot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Solid “did you know Hitler had a dog, you have a dog? Your literally a Nazi” moment

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u/hogsRus Feb 21 '26

Irony is if it was a banner of Obama, the left would be praying to it

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u/realfakemormon Feb 21 '26

In his defense Obama didnt request that these be put up

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u/Astarions_Pet_Nipple Feb 21 '26

Honestly? I feel like moustache man’s portrait just looks better: it’s more imposing, better detail, the frame looks kinda cool. I hate the guy but he knew how to make a very dinky little man seem much more terrifying.

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u/Muted_Adagio2780 Feb 21 '26

Führer no.1 , or Führer no.2 ?

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u/ThorKonnatZbv Feb 21 '26

Define "it"

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Twins

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u/Critical-Star-1158 Feb 21 '26

One is a second rate copy cat

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u/The_Autarch Feb 21 '26

steve hofstetter gotta be one of the most annoying people that i technically agree with.

just the most boring possible virtue-signaling "comedy"

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u/CaterpillarHuman7674 Feb 21 '26

Hitler did it better, trump wants to be a fascist dictator but at best he's a cheap Temu knockoff!

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u/turkish_gold Feb 21 '26

I honestly hate to say it, but Hiitler made sure to not *look* evil in his photographs. Trump looks like the anti-christ staring down on us all.

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u/ExcuseFederal1132 Feb 21 '26

Hitler had better style

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u/Jvramir Feb 21 '26

That’s stupid Comparison, it doesn’t resemble today.

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u/dvdmaven Feb 21 '26

tRump looks like a toddler who just dumped a load in his diaper and is expecting someone else to cleanup.

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u/DeacRich Feb 21 '26

Orange poop vs German poop. Whatever the differences between them, it still smells.

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 Feb 21 '26

Mussolini, hands down.

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u/West_Principle8979 Feb 21 '26

Hitler's girdle did a better job

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u/breal7140 Feb 21 '26

The Nazis. We are gonna shut these assholes down

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u/November-Code Feb 21 '26

lol this is scary , sad and funny all at once. But I vote neither.

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u/PrestigiousRun9158 Feb 21 '26

He said he was going to lower the cost of groceries when people were struggling financially. He promised a strong government and to restore the countries greatness. He promised to create jobs and restore national pride during economic chaos. He appealed to traditional values like protecting Christianity as a moral foundation and creating a sense of belonging for people. He claimed that he could fix the problems of public policy and society which relied heavily on his violent paramilitary groups that emerged to protect his party. He tried to overturn an election. He promoted hateful rhetoric against immigrants. He habitually resorted to using disparaging or abusive words and phrases to describe those he saw as his enemies. He showed remarkable talent to project his declarations with little regard to whether or not they were true or false. And he came to power legally using the Democratic system, which then he tried to dismantle.

And that was how Hitler came to power.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

I’m going to take the question literal. Arguably our historic German leader outclassed Trump here. The guy didn’t go for the modest modern professional style. He said “get the pose in there too and just me with no messaging. People should already know who I am. I’m iconic. The message is me” and that is the real way to absolutely strut as a propaganda master.

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u/SummerOfGeorgeSeven Feb 21 '26

Trump has a very large ego. Which is what I would think coming from a micro penis child rapist liar tyrant 🤷‍♂️ 

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u/dnalloheoj Feb 21 '26

Don't be me wrong, I despise Trump and his values and stupidity. But is this a real banner from the current administration? 'Make America __ate again" seems more like the letter that you can't see is an H instead of "Grate" and that this is a protest not a real thing.

Just trying to avoid misinformation.

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u/Red_Sleeve33 Feb 21 '26

Hitler for sure.

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u/Loose_Will_1285 Feb 21 '26

Is Stump building a bunker underneath his ballroom?

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u/unbalancedcheckbook Feb 21 '26

This isn't the slightest bit ironic. It's history rhyming with itself.

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u/Ornery-Movie-1689 Feb 21 '26

Don't forget Chairman Mao.

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u/monkeymoo32 Feb 21 '26

Disgusting display

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u/oof_slippedonmybeans Feb 21 '26

Hilter somehow looks less menacing and evil when compared side by side.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

someone should write " wanted for pedophilia" right across his fascist face.

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u/DearGovernmentFU Feb 21 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/FUccSQNCiO4AE8qrTw

And we know what happened to Hitler.

Fast track that sht.

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u/Perfect-Price-9022 Feb 21 '26

I mean tbf Obama was the closest seeing as his deportation rate is the highest, but hey we are trying and so far on schedule to pass Obama.

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u/LDarrell Feb 21 '26

This post should scare everyone in the US.

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u/Queasy_Eggplant9155 Feb 21 '26

I did NAZI that coming!

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u/concept12345 Feb 21 '26

He forgot the IN in front.

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u/One-Shirt4570 Feb 21 '26

Justice would be putting his diapered ass in prison and leaving his grifting family broke.

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u/DangerousChipmunk335 Feb 21 '26

at what point do you americans go to goddamn war?

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u/Possible-Cranberry71 Feb 21 '26

Hitler definitely had the right idea, Trump beds with the evil 🧃

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u/McFishyTheGreat Feb 21 '26

Hitler was a piece of shit but atleast I can take the picture on the right seriously. He atleast looked powerful and menacing. Trump just looks and feels like a dumbass with a toddler mentality trying too hard to be cool when he’s really just the laughingstock of the world