In 10 months, between a move west and the USA facing authoritarian rule, it seems prudent to revisit similarities and differences between der fuehrer of the 12 ½ year reich (“18") [FN1] and the current occupant of the Oval Office (who still comes up short). 1/11

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR
1) The book that 18 wrote was bought by many, [FN2] was rehashed bigotry, and was gibberish & doggerel, but gibberish & doggerel that 18 dictated and was neither ghost-written [FN3] nor plagiarized. [FN4] By contrast ... 2/11

1987's “Art of the Deal” was ghost-written. [FN5] In 2016, trump tried to dispute that claim, by way of a cease-and-desist letter to Tony Schwartz, the ghost writer in question. [FN6] Nothing came of trump’s hissy fit. But mentioning doggerel... 3/11

ANIMALS’ NOT-SO-BEST FRIEND
2) Love of pets & capacity for empathy go paw-in-hand. 18, a consensus top-10 for all-time evil shit-heads, loved (but killed) his dog, Blondi. [FN7] No pets are found in 1600 Penn Ave [FN8], but trump has an admitted dog killer (former Gov Noem) is in his cabinet. 4/11

FINANCIAL SAVVY
3) 18 was solvent (fr book sales) when he took office 1/30/33. On 1/20/17, trump refused to disclose his financials. Later records indicated trump paid virtually nothing in taxes because he lost $$$ in business. 5/11

WAR HERO
4) 18 didn’t wait to be drafted, but enlisted for WW I & twice was awarded the Iron Cross. Not only did trump dodge Vietnam & demean ppl who served, trump’s granddaddy came here from Prussia to dodge military service there. It’s all in the family. 6/11

MISSING TESTICLES
5) In stats for below-the-belt items, 18 had only one ball. The way foreign leaders run over trump, it is difficult to believe trump has any such contents in that all-important (for insecure males) sac. In nearly any of these measures, trump comes up short compared to 18. 7/11

Footnotes:
FN1. Rather than repeating the name of the Austrian former corporal, for brevity, 18 (for the initials of the individual who was the dictator of Germany 1933 to 1945). 8/11

FN2. Between its sold over 12 million copies from its first publication in 1925 until the end of World War II in 1945. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accessed 11/7/25.
FN3. “ghost write: to write for and in the name of another.” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (1974 ed), p. 303. 9/11

FN4. “plagiarism. The act or an instance of copying or stealing another’s words or ideas and attributing them as one’s own.” Black’s Law Dictionary, New Pocket Ed., (1996), p. 482.
FN5. Alexandra Hutzler, “‘Blood Money’: Donald Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ Ghostwriter Says