Trump told chief of staff Hitler 'did a lot of good things,' book claims
Former US President Donald Trump has reportedly said in a conversation with then-chief of staff John Kelly that Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things.”
The Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender has revealed the conversation in his new book “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” obtained by news outlets ahead of its July 13 release.
According to the book, Trump made these comments during his 2018 trip to Europe to commemorate the end of World War I. Although Kelly has “reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities,” the Republican president has remained unpersuaded.
Then, Kelly told Trump that “you cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler. You just can’t,” the book added.
Kelly, a former Marine Corps general, announced his resignation as chief of staff at the beginning of 2019 after reaching a “stalemate” in his relationship with Trump.
The tensions between Trump and Kelly escalated to the extent that the two stopped speaking to one another for days.
US media reports claimed in April 2018 that Kelly had described the White House as a “miserable” place to work and called Trump an “unhinged idiot” during conversations with colleagues.
He was also said to have mocked Trump's lack of policy knowledge.
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