LETTER: Forum revealed Trump shares traits with Hitler

Hopefully many of you watched the Commander in Chief Forum on NBC Sept. 7 to become better informed about the candidates for president of the United States.

There was a very striking similarity to the information I learned when taking U.S. history in high school and world history in college. Adolf Hitler convinced the German people that he was the only person capable of making “Germany great again.” Donald Trump’s claim that he is the only person able to make “America great again” certainly parallels that thinking.

When Hitler seized the leadership of Germany he expunged the military and government officials of all who did not agree with his conspiracy and replaced them with his chosen Nazi party members. Trump was critical of the American generals, stating that “they have been reduced to rubble” and he knew more than the generals about ISIS. He also stated that “when I am President there will probably be different generals.” Without question he meant selected by himself.

The Associated Press reported that “ahead of the forum, Trump rolled out a new plan to boost military spending by tens of BILLIONS of dollars, including major increases in the number of active troops, fighter planes, Navy ships and submarines.” At this time we have the largest military and defense budget in the world.

I also learned in my history classes that when a country builds a huge military machine, as Hitler did, they use it. Is it any wonder that the rest of the world is frightened by Donald Trump. He definitely mirrors Hitler’s takeover of the German government before WWII. Donald Trump’s relationship with dictator Vladimir Putin resembles Hitler’s relationship with dictator Benito Mussolini.

Trump has changed his party registration several times from Republican to Democrat and back again. It appears that he is making this effort to become president for his own egotistical self-interest. —Jerry Reckin, Kalispell